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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
conditions that firms face; and the increased scale of activities fostered by global participation. The text examines how these phenomena create tensions and tradeoffs for executives concerning which product to offer around the world,...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
advancing those reforms, not just being a passive investor. Massachusetts, for example, is looking at ranked choice voting right now, so for our members in the Boston area it’s a moment when they could engage with their representatives...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
the conference examined the application of technology in traditional businesses and the innovations that will influence the everyday activities of a broad spectrum of companies." WSA: Focus on Work/Life Balance "Women have always been...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books
to success. “Career forward” means keeping a focus on the future and recognizing that being good at your job is often not enough—that you should take every opportunity to boost your connections, take on “difficult” assignments, and work View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
assessing the business past and looking ahead to the future. Accordingly, over the past several months, from among HBS's more than sixty thousand active alumni, we have solicited and received many hundreds of votes, opinions, and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
tolerate it. The night of the first dose, he asked for sushi—not a typical choice for someone feeling nauseated. Halfway into a third order of edamame, he froze. "Oh my God," pointing to a maggot in the food, "I'm going to throw up, and...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,...
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
candidates to admissions. Student and alumni organizations - including the Network of Women Alumnae, the Women's Student Association, the African-American Student Union, and the European Club - are active in this effort. Referred...
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Cindy Olnick
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
children. Second, I believed it was essential to actively recruit and help tenure other bright, motivated women scholars and teachers for the HBS faculty. Where did you find the inner resources to persevere in an era when there were so...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the few VCs who View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
intellectual passions, even though I think the roots of it go back to the relationship with my father. I didn’t put it all together until I came to MIT. When I graduated in 1988, I had offers from nearly all the business schools I had ever dreamed of being part of. In...
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Roger Thompson
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
options were woefully underdeveloped. Amira thought—correctly—that the region’s consumers, who were already active on platforms like Facebook and YouTube, would be quick to embrace online retailers. But BulkWhiz did have to convince...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective framework in which to transform healthcare systems. It helps leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and...
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- 23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
(MBA 1967), and Herb Kaplan (MBA 1965) hope that energized reaction from the business community will turn into active engagement in fixing a decidedly broken electoral system. “Our political dysfunction is harming American...
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Margie Kelley