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- 23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
talking about great things,” says Harris, who, two years later, enrolled at HBS as a first-year student. Harris thrived at HBS, and the experience launched her career at Morgan Stanley. She joined in 1987 and worked her way up, holding positions in mergers and View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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High Fives
have encouraged our clients to take substantial portions of their U.S. equity portfolios and buy international stocks.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “Those markets are enticing but can be unbelievably volatile. We think the...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Case Study: The Speed of Light
sure everyone understands that the business exists to deliver solutions using this “hands-on, engineering- heavy” approach. Repeat it over and over and over. (4) Get the model right in New Jersey—number of people, skill mix, client View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shareholders as well as the clients." A second big deal followed two years later with the acquisition of another industry icon, The Ogilvy Group, for $864 million. A pattern had been set that continues to this day. The owner of some 100...
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- 16 May 2017
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Facing the Board
startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
knew that owning the mops was a lot different from pushing them. Over the years, she built a roster of clients that included ABC News, Dulles Airport, Hewlett-Packard, NationsBank, and Northrop Grumman. The first African-American woman to...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent markets—she was called in to create...
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Maureen Harmon
- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The founder and CEO of Bossy...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
important, too: as Houghton once wrote (paraphrasing Justice Learned Hand), “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” —GE Taran Swan Leading from the Middle Swan in 1998 at Nickelodeon Latin America (bottom) and...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
returned to Bain after graduation, one of her new clients was TAM Airlines. As part of a team charged with optimizing the airline's network and its budget, Sender really liked the TAM people she met. They were passionate about their work,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
meaningful revenue for them.” As an example, Trainor cites High Maintenance, a Vimeo-produced web series created by husband-and-wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld that follows a nameless pot dealer (“The Guy”) as he delivers his wares by bicycle to various...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
quarter. Overall, the unit now accounts for 38 percent of the company’s business, according to its financial statements, with IBM spending more than $5 billion in acquisitions in the first half of 2016 to nourish cloud businesses like...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
coaches and teach celebrities, actors, to prepare for a role, to sound perfect for it. So we got these people who charge $300 an hour to record these video lessons that would exactly mirror how they would work with their clients...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
do get sh-t done! To ask bold questions. Yes, we are comfortable asking for directions. Empathy: We tend to see the full person, as well as the client or colleague. Perhaps this is most important of all. Enduring power in the workplace...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
director Nadir Godrej (MBA ’76), who oversees business divisions in the areas of chemicals, foods, and medical diagnostics. More such acquisitions will take place in the future, he believes, as Godrej expands its worldwide distribution...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
boss. We had an external client who loved my work. There came a point, however, where for various reasons my boss felt threatened by my work and decided to oust me from the organization and proceeded by giving me a horrible review. I was...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
think the so-called rewards they bring are pretty overrated." Rather, Glover finds immense satisfaction in helping clients create safer workplaces and a cleaner environment. "The icing on the cake," she says, "is that we simultaneously...
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