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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had been struggling with how to View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
or life-support systems operating. In the living room, there is a small, framed photo of Gershanik in a helicopter, using a hand pump to squeeze air into a tiny bundle in his lap. “I had this baby in my arms, he weighed only 1.5 pounds,”...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s...
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Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers
Groysberg. Still deep in the research phase, he estimates that close to 70 people (including men) will be interviewed for the case by its completion. Those very personal experiences will be framed in the context of what was happening in...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the performance of individual health-care delivery...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the world. Throughout your tenure,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
law, but now he walks into the new building’s lobby. The carved marble door frame that was once the entryway to the censorship office is preserved here, another reminder of a not-that-long-ago time. For Maj, though, the Free Speech...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant’s turbines, for instance, sit on a massive steel frame that was custom-built in New Jersey; the entire assembly weighs 105 tons and had to be ferried into position on a barge before it could be lowered to the bottom of the East...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
plus. In terms of the modern framing of it, there’s a golden book that I love, by the author of the Black Swan. It’s called Antifragile. And if you think about the usual way that we go and deal with these setbacks in life, it’s fragile....
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin interviewed 30 deans and...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
grateful to Professor Nick Retsinas for supervising me in my HKS Policy Analysis Exercise; and Professor Rebecca Henderson had a great way of framing ethical challenges and decisions in LCA. “But I’d have to say that Nori Lietz left the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
more oversight will be required in the future. Highlights of remarks made at the three sessions follow. AN ANXIOUS TIME: HBS faculty members Nicolas Retsinas, Clayton Rose, David Moss, and Robert Merton spoke about the financial crisis before an audience in Burden...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
entertaining and easy to complete in almost any setting. APRIL 27 Susan Tynan (MBA 2003), founder and CEO of Framebridge, a frame shop based in Washington, redeployed her company’s manufacturing equipment to create personal protective...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but cronyism has diminished, the principle of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghanistan’s largest taxpayer and private employer. Starting any sort of company in Afghanistan in that time frame would have been a tall order, but a telecom operation posed a number of special challenges. “There was nothing there,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
history, is a framed copy of the front page of the August 8, 1992, San Francisco Examiner. On that particular day, the editors co-opted the signature home-run call — “Bye-Bye Baby!” — of the Giants’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Russ Hodges to...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
organizations view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways. What do these people have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
did. The assault went on for hours. Bradley took the list with him the next day on a flight to Los Angeles and found a way to frame what had just happened in a concept recalled from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey...
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