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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“Music is wired into us,” says Keith Cerny (MBA 1991). “Singing is something that is very human, and from singing, it’s very easy to go into playing instruments.” Cerny’s own connection with music began at age 10, with the San Francisco Boys Chorus. It continued as a...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the company for 10 years when she took the...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
Above: photo by Minesh Bacrania As mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tim Keller (MBA 2005) is focused on bread-and-butter initiatives that drive down crime and attract business. And he’s been successful on both counts since taking office just over a year ago: Crime is...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from southeastern Nigeria, she grew up...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for The Good Wife, he has also...
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- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
Growing up in Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria experienced urban life at its most extreme — cities so full of people and traffic that it was impossible to imagine they could grow any larger. At a conference on urbanization in early March, however,...
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- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
We can't be the alpha dog all of the time. Whatever our personality, most of us experience varying degrees of feeling in charge. Some situations take us down a notch while others build us up. New research shows that it's possible to control those feelings a bit more,...
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by Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Ramarajan and Reid’s study shows. But making that effort—beginning with a clear-eyed, inward look at one’s background, identity, and place in culture—can provide the foundation for building a workplace where everyone can thrive. About the Author View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
Summer offers the benefit of long, warm days—and for students, the very real opportunity to consider a potential sector or role for post-HBS plans, sometimes with the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program. (Last year, 256 students received $1.5 million in funding...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
think people were emptying the bottles for the redemption value. However, a buyer who has never made a mistake is not a good buyer. You have to take chances in this business. We like to say we don’t have to go to Las Vegas because we buy for the 99. — View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
partners, and thinking about cash flow and how it works over five years do you buy this property or don’t buy that property? I always wanted to build a brand and a sustainable organization. This is the job I’ve always wanted since I was a kid. Now I’ve got it, and I’m...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
to a good degree,” says Kerr. But it’s too soon to tell whether they have established themselves in a way that will allow them to truly excel. “That’s where the jury is still out. They are still defining the Walmart of the future.” About the Author View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s one of 2,522 volumes of credit...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
entrepreneur. Anyone who has started a company will tell you that there is enormous satisfaction and enormous frustration attached to the process.” For Byford, it’s been well worth the effort. “I’ve always believed that we pass this way once,” he says, “and that it’s...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and the Hudson River beyond. It's a scene often associated with...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different roles in a family business drama...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer announced that it would no longer...
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