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- 01 Jun 2013
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Lab Work
After 16 years at the Australian technology-transfer organization UniQuest, managing director David Henderson (MBA 1989) is moving on to new challenges. Looking back on the experience of shepherding technologies from the university to the marketplace—the...
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
to observe that at one time he had told his study group that he intended to live in Australia and, as a consultant, travel the world while learning about different business models. Instead, Brown said, “I'm going back to my hometown of...
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- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Melbourne. More information here. Geoffrey Picard (MBA 1969C) won a bronze medal in rowing for the US in men’s coxless fours at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. More information here. Neville Hayes (MBA 1969D) won two silver medals for Australia...
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- 26 Oct 2011
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On Top, Down Under
Fookes: Leading the way at one of Australia's premier real estate firms. Photo courtesy Mark Fookes Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) is head of investment management at The GPT Group, a Sydney, Australia, firm that manages $9.8 billion of Australian retail, office, and...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: After leaving England for Australia in late 1830s, John Fairfax began building a media empire. At its height, John Fairfax Limited held the Australian...
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- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
Courtesy Justine Smyth Courtesy Justine Smyth Justine Smyth (PMD 77, 2002) remembers a time when no one in New Zealand talked about breast cancer. It was 1980, and her mother, just 45 years old, had been diagnosed with the disease. “We weren’t allowed to tell anyone,”...
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- 08 Jun 2017
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Maria Fernandez: Making A Difference
- 24 Apr 2014
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Medicine made personal
Australia-born Arjun Goyal (MBA 2014) credits HBS with helping him focus his career on life sciences, specifically “personalized medicine”—a tailored approach to treatment based on analysis of patient populations. With his classmate Louis Levy (MBA 2014), whom he met...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
KNECHT: Save our dwindling fish stocks. PHOTO COURTESY MARION ETTLINGER May I take your order? One Patagonian toothfish, please. If that doesn’t sound appetizing, how about Chilean sea bass — what the fish was renamed to appeal to gourmands. The gambit worked but not...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
policymakers who don’t understand the business arena, and funds that end up in the wrong pockets. In the book, I use examples from Australia to illustrate both problems. Earlier this decade, the Australian government stipulated that the...
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- 12 Oct 2010
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Banker to the World
- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
all over the world. By 1970, we had a factory in Holland serving Europe. In 1971, we started assembly plants in Australia and Japan.” He visited more than 50 countries, including many in the Middle East to take advantage of the oil boom....
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- 01 Mar 2011
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A Man without a Pause
Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and business schools (he cofounded a laundry service at HBS), Wolfensohn landed in London during the “Eurodollar revolution” as a...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
China has announced its plans for a “New Silk Road” (NSR) and is developing its higher education and research systems at speed. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe, China, the US, Russia, and View Details
- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
his photo to each summit. Subsequent climbs were Mt. Aconcagua, in South America (2011); Mt. Everest, in Asia (2011); Mt. Elbrus, in Europe (2012); Carstensz Pyramid, in Indonesia (2012); Mt. Vinson, in Antarctica (2012); and Mt. Kosciuszko, in View Details
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
McArthur My son Joe, then four years old, approached the burlier of our two dinner guests. “Bet you don’t pillow fight.” This was odd. Joe was shy and didn’t usually approach strangers. “Bet I do,” John McArthur replied. He arched an eyebrow provocatively. “Oh, John,”...
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