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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Seligman gives the reasons why she loves living in Israel, among which are that it is difficult to be bored there and that the country is so informal. Israel is also where she raised her children and found work that widened her horizons....
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
black person I have ever held a conversation with.” TED LEWIS grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied architecture and sociology, Lewis joined the Peace Corps, working for two...
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- 26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
foundational understanding of the pathways to a board seat and how to create a value proposition, while the second webinar focused on creating a board resume and networking. “The goal was to have a tactical conversation about how to...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Hospital before joining the HBS faculty in 1997. “We knew we needed a program that ran for longer than a week that not only addresses the higher-level strategic questions but also considers the difficult blocking and tackling that makes...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
months, totally immersed in a humanitarian project in someplace like Africa or India, it engages you in ways that are difficult to replicate when you come back to a corporate context. That can make reentry pretty challenging for everyone...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
are actively forming B2B2C partnerships to maximize our impact on the lives of older people,” says Oppenheim, who often moderates the group conversations before and after classes to foster camaraderie. She also created the Solo Agers and...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot story reminded me of the only contact I ever had with him, a telephone conversation in late August 1966 when I returned to Boston from my honeymoon. I picked up the phone, and someone with a very heavy French accent said, “Is this...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit exposed the tech world’s toxic culture and its homogeneity. Though she lost her suit, Pao revolutionized the conversation at...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: The Voice Project is an 18-year-old non-profit dedicated to protecting freedom of expression. In this conversation between Voice Project cofounder Hunter...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
more difficult. They struggle with when to grant certain permissions and when to have difficult conversations and often avoid such decisions. They need a framework that can adjust to the development needs of...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a drag on domestic production. “It’s a really View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
be known,” he says. That holds true whether it’s reminding us of journalism’s power or showcasing how grit, integrity, and difficult leadership decisions can play out on history’s stage. It’s all to the same end of inspiring a public...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
didn't know the language. The culture of France is quite different in terms of warmth and people's friendliness, and so all of that, I think was difficult for me. Hanna: Didn't you eventually run for class president? Sulyman: Vice...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
friend Nando Parrado, one of the Uruguayan rugby players who survived a plane crash in the Andes. We had a great conversation about how people react when facing challenging or difficult situations.”...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
once in a while, or just swinging by the office once a week, that it just was not successful for them, and B, give them resources that allow them to do some kind of coaching and reflection. It's difficult to go from doing something that's...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
key takeaway. Andrew Saunders: Whenever you’re in a small group, I think it’s important to recognize the context of what you need to do, and that your goals and objectives will change over time. Sometimes you need to have those difficult...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable discussion, moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu:...
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Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage....
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by...
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