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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that...
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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
can rack up U.S. box office receipts of just over $380 million (not including consumer product tie-ins), and unexpected hits like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ grossed $370 million in 2004, earning a respectable third-place...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Reade never thought much about gardening as a kid. After earning her MBA and living in New York City for a few years, however, she went looking for geraniums for her window boxes. At the garden store in...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
earning their MBAs, almost half had broken away from a rapidly changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
building. Her banker, however, refused to loan her all the money she needed. That should not have come as a surprise given that her school’s enrollment would fill only three of the twelve floors, and Russo had no plans to sublet the rest...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
FLEMING: Scientists make wrong assumptions about MBAs. PHOTO BY STUART ROSNER Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he “wanted to study more than electrons.” Even so,...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
educational matter. The implications are vast — we can begin to imagine a world safe for difference when coexistence education enters the school curriculum." Slifka's investment career began as a summer associate at L.F. Rothschild & Co. Upon View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
was eager to be a part of the cause his two brothers had already joined. It was “the job which he thought he should do,” his brother Bob explained. Green soon found his business know-how had earned him notice within the new Office of...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
Progress The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Herzlinger was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was eight. She earned a degree in economics from MIT, spent time in Washington as an...
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- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American...
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- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
little bit about how American women basketball players began playing professionally in Europe? Levy: Well, it happened like this. There were leagues in Europe-- very amateur except that the players would get paid modest sums. And no one really View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
discourage discrimination. “I want to reach the minds and hearts of youth, as well as their wallets,” he says. At HBS, Gertsacov has been surprised by the depth of the friendships he’s made. “I expected HBS to be ultracompetitive. It has...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
and student jobs, they did. Before moving to Cambridge in 1980, Harris says she harbored the usual expectations of Harvard as a preppy, stuffy place, but found she was one of the few wearing Docksiders and green sweaters. The diversity of her classmates also View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
interests that later proved complementary when it came to carving up iTrust management responsibilities. Agarwala grew up in Calcutta, the original capital of India during British colonial rule, dreaming of playing cricket. He ultimately decided to study engineering in...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”),...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
retiring as a commander in 2013. Vescovo had already earned a place in the annals of exploration. When he reached the peak of Everest in 2010, he became one of just a few hundred people to have climbed all Seven Summits, the tallest...
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- 06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine learning. And I know I could not have...
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