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- 19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Club Leadership Conferences to keep the momentum going.” Oregon Community Partners Pitch Night: Matchmaking for A Better World The HBS Association of Oregon (HBSAO) held its Community Partners Pitch Night on May 22 to hear from local...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
we will make a mistake only once and learn from it. We also are humbled every day by a new mistake. But it is the kind of investing that the partners here very much enjoy. We believe that getting in early and working with management teams...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
people and businesses are finding that the two things we love most in the world—cars and cash in our pockets—are totally optional. By 2017 people will be disrupting the disrupters, because the world is changing so fast. “Number three:...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a number of firms have been unable to...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy...
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- 19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a panelist, sharing his expertise as...
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Margie Kelley
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
fight for “what was right and good” in books he’d read as a child, like Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. It was a way of seeing the world Singer absorbed from his parents and the synagogue they attended as a family in suburban...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
country riven by tribal factions and lacking roads, electricity, and a well-functioning government—required the mindset of a manager who half-jokingly refers to himself as a “lovable dictator.” Khoja below a billboard on Bibi Mahru Hill,...
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Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagining a world where I wasn't running this business that we had started, and where I couldn't necessarily control if it was going to be successful or not, that was really helpful to experience that versus just theoretically...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA
lacrosse season as a coach at Brookline High School, traveling, then back to the working world with a position in private equity. That’s a nice benefit. What else was valuable about the learning team experience? Courtney Hughes: The...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
provides a salve to a population where, due to lack of access, only 27 percent have a bank account—a number that drops to 12 percent in the lowest-earning 40 percent of the population, according to the World Bank. This is the kind of...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging directly with the team, to help...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
create and manage culture.” We have a hard time disagreeing with this statement, except maybe quibbling with the “only” part.... We’d argue that culture is in the running for most important because—among other things—it stays behind long...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
hope. So last December, speaking in a crowded, harshly lit room typical of government offices the world over, Cognetti put herself forward as one of 10 candidates to vie for a seat on the Scranton School Board. As part of her personal...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
beyond the bottom line, and so we need to have all that data ready to sort of slowly move that that oil tanker around. >Hi, I'm Georgia Zocca (GMP 23) from the General Management Program in 2017. My question is, if we want to invest in...
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