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Deborah M. Winshel
Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School teaching the first-year required course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability. She is an experienced business and non-profit leader whose vision and strategic direction have helped shape organizations as diverse as BlackRock, Robin Hood Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and JP Morgan. She has extensive...
- 01 Sep 2003
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The Power of National Identity
nationalist tendencies that would emerge after the breakup would be uniformly detrimental to Western interests. Abdelal’s research draws instructive lessons from the fact that neither of these scenarios materialized and suggests that policymakers need to take a closer...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a demanding and exciting career path,"...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
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Starting Off on the Right Foot
fairly stressful. “Switching jobs is hard work,” he says. “You’re processing a lot of new information, and anxiety is normal and even healthy in a situation like that.” After a few months, he relates, “your stress level should plateau, and your effectiveness as a...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
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Job Interviews
the growing acceptance of e-mail acknowledgments, Butler advises, “A genuine, elegant, handwritten thank-you note is still the gold standard. It leaves a more lasting impression.” — Deborah E. View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
a head in May 1970, when hundreds of students and some faculty members assembled on Baker Beach to decide whether or not to join with students across the country and engage in a symbolic strike to protest the shootings at Kent State. Dean Lawrence View Details
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and Chicago. Height is not the...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
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Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Control and Prevention. Were there any topics that you had to omit that you wish you could have covered? There was a chapter on how to fall in love, which I really wanted to include, but my editor thought it was too subjective. — Deborah...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription
care to a system where it is all managed care. So even though the U.S. insurance system is large and decentralized, when we move, we actually move with dizzying rapidity. — Deborah E. View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
promotional and charitable events, which often are tied to the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay. (One percent of the bar’s revenues are donated to The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other conservancy causes.) “At the Boatyard, what we’re really selling is a lifestyle,”...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America
engaging with any group you’re trying to influence — whether it’s across the globe or the people in the next department — is to make sure that you retain your allies, do whatever you can to neutralize your adversaries, and most important, win over the big group that’s...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
of the scientists who had become convinced that MBAs have skills and knowledge that could be highly valuable in their own fields. The course was really a grand experiment, but by the end of it, the students were pulling together, which is what I had hoped for. I’m...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
disintegrated, specialized providers. And if those providers don’t start to integrate as competitors in the health-care market, they will be the losers. — Deborah Blagg Related Links An Excerpt from The...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
entrepreneurs whose main resource when they start an enterprise is their passion. Loving what you do doesn’t guarantee success, but I believe it is the essence of creativity and of entrepreneurship. — Deborah View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
lives. Many students hold these leaders accountable far beyond their business successes or failures. Can you be a great leader and not a great human being? What defines a legacy? These are questions people in business rarely address, but they are particularly poignant...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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New Career Wanted
resource,” notes Sullivan. “The most important thing,” stresses Carlson, “is to do your homework and take the transition step-by-step. That way, when you land in your new role, you may have to make some adjustments, but there won’t be any big surprises.” — View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
It is ten o'clock on a mild March morning in Charleston, South Carolina. A gentle mist is falling, weighing down the yellow Lady Banksia roses in the garden outside Roper House, an impeccably restored Greek Revival mansion that overlooks Fort Sumter and the city's...
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Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers
Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) (photos by Neal Hamberg) Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) had a passion for basketball that dated back to middle school, a stellar record as a high school player, and an extraordinary college career as co-captain of a record-setting...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple of summers ago, the money you helped raise to support ALS research may be at work today in a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headed by Robert Blum (MBA 1991). Blum is...
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Deborah Blagg