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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of Color View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right people to help your venture fly? If you get your team right, the idea will come. And the money will follow." Bhide, who for the past eight years has been studying five hundred mid-level entrepreneurial businesses around the country,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
and telecommunications. “We had access to high-level people,” says Sterling Cross (MBA 2017), who worked with a team on inner-city transportation. “They were willing to get their hands dirty with us and...
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- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
protect our nation by stopping all of the threats that might affect us: national security, criminality, human trafficking, and illicit drugs crossing our borders. “The job that I have has responsibility for the intelligence capability and...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
Professor Jeff Polzer focused on team management issues. “Besides being informational from an academic point of view, the case discussions and faculty involvement were great ways to facilitate interaction with our peers,” says Bruce...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
William C. Kirby, the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, developed the course to introduce students to a cross section of Chinese industry and commerce while also providing a deeper dive into a particular sector. For...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
new car may be seductive, he notes, "but let's not forget that a car's real function is to cross distances and bring people to each other. And let's start to consider that the real View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with persistent poverty and corruption. He says the team came away with a more realistic view of the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that await a...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
Gyaana faculty advisor Professor of Management Practice Allen S. Grossman with team members Meghna Modi, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Raj K. De Datta (all MBA ’03). FBC team members Brian T. Hoskins (MBA ’03)...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver vegetable nutrition to their kids. Sneakz Organic was born. The Sneakz View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
in Rwanda’s most impoverished villages. To help improve the function of the Rwanda Development Board, another team examined the cost to business of governmental bureaucracy. “I believe that people learn the...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
functionality contained in a search engine. Instead, each project was assessed by a panel of industry experts, who rated the performance of the resulting product relative to others that targeted similar customer needs at the same time....
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
program at HBS. To prepare for that, I teamed up with Howell Jackson at Harvard Law School, who is an expert in financial institutions. We launched the CFS program two years ago, and it gave Howell and me the confidence that we could pull...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
After supervising and confirming the successful breaching of a preponderance of the obstacles, Major Gurfein was directed to drastically modify the systematic schedule of obstacle reduction in order to support I MEF’s accelerated time line for View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
of the school year, my teacher, Mrs. Hazelip, pulled me aside to say she’d like me to be captain of the crossing guards in the fall. I was dumbfounded. I was small for my size, in terms of both height and muscle, not one of the popular...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
employing an engineering team to create a web application that applies natural language processing, machine learning, big data, and data visualization algorithms to make conflicts with trademarked names immediately visual, accessible, and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as important as what you know. "Our...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is...
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Dan Morrell