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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
creating new products for giant brands such as Keebler and Nabisco, Interbake is the oldest producer of Girl Scout cookies and the primary source of ice-cream sandwich wafers in the United States. ABC Bakers, a division of Interbake...
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Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
lot of females in the aviation community, but there's a lot of opportunity," says Eaton, a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft pilot. She imparts her message of possibility everywhere she has the opportunity, from Girl Scout troop meetings...
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- Portrait Project
Ian McLean
I want to make people laugh. Not a mean spirited laughing-at-someone laugh, but the laughter found in the joy of life. I want my friends and family to laugh, the milk-coming-out-of-your-nose type laugh, when I tell them a funny story or joke. To make a new View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New and Improved
shaped and honed the class. We've selected eight classmates whose professional expertise ranges from Girl Scout cookies to e-commerce and whose stories suggest the diverse endeavors of the class as a whole. While "older and wiser" is an...
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Douglas Raymond
supporting a local Boy Scout organization or as global as helping to bring the benefits of trade and globalization to communities in India, Africa, or China. At HBS, I saw people from all over the world come together, discuss their...
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New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers...
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- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
prints out a P&L statement and asks the manager what Shoen can do to make the business better. He jots down ideas on a pad, then snaps a photo of his notes with his phone to text to his assistant, who then often turns it into a memo to the employees. He also spends a...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
is the Community Partners (CP) program of the HBS Association of Northern California. Founded in 1986, CP has involved more than four hundred alumni in providing pro bono consulting services to nearly 130 nonprofit organizations. CP volunteers have helped the Girls...
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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
Nohria said OB would become if we were ever to be involved in something that would change the world,” notes Smith, who also is working with the Girl Scouts of the USA Louisiana East to develop an environmental education initiative. “I...
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Rob Self
there’s a singular theme of continuity: sustainability. “It started with the Boy Scouts,” he says. Originally intended as a way for Rob and his father to have fun on weekends (eventually joined by his two brothers), Scouting “gave me an...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
the strategy of baseball.” And now that stats-driven scouting is the norm, those dives must go even deeper. Every pitch thrown in the big leagues today is broken down not only by velocity, type, and location but also by trajectory—a far...
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- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
promoted to an executive for Global Business, Commercial Systems and Services at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, overseeing non-military sales, customer completions and support worldwide. Eaton's message, which she has spread everywhere from Girl View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
scheduled dates—albeit in a modified (virtual) form. NFL scouts had the entire 2019 college football season to evaluate prospects. The NFL Combine, another opportunity to see select recruits in action, went ahead as planned at the start...
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- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout sniper, Pashto linguist, and deployed to Afghanistan where he...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
basic accounting that is coming in handy at the moment. She points out that, in addition to handling advance payments, dealing with the challenges of raising capital, scouting locations, and building clientele will all draw from her CORe...
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- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
film review, scouting reports, travel, community events...it adds up quickly, and it’s not just during season. We trained year-round. Add college courses to the mix, and you are looking at 70-80 hour workweeks, with at least 25% of the...
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- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
many. We’ve asked what many leaders should do, among them Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia’s Satya Nadella, YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Disney’s Susan Arnold. We’ve explored the leadership legacy of, among others, Vanguard Founder John Bogle,...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
as the UNC Business School, the League for the Hard of Hearing, The Cleveland Opera, the Boy Scouts of America, the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia, and untold other worthy causes are the beneficiaries of '74's hard-won experience. In...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
other organizations as you use this to turn your human resource to human capital.” Several respondents nevertheless expressed caution in just how to manage inclusion, particularly when it comes to the specifics of one aspect of inclusion, the one-on-one meeting. Citing...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
individual flips from being a passionate advocate of an idea to offering realistic viewpoints of the challenges in the way of success." Other behaviors to scout for include a bias toward creating data rather than getting it, a willingness...
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