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- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in 1909, he earned a scholarship to attend Harvard View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers
tutor in the ABC house in Williamstown, and as a senior, he gained custody of his younger sister, Laura, because his mother could no longer take care of her. The night before graduation, he married his college classmate, Michele Johnson....
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
do large-scale engineering without knowing the laws of physics. As a set of ideas, strategy sought to remedy all these deficiencies. And the effort was spearheaded by, of all people, management consultants — Bruce Henderson and his ilk...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
University of Iowa, and his mother taught at a small college in nearby Des Moines. In 1941, Christensen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, where he met Dorothy Smith, his lifelong inspiration and future wife, who would...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
Field sales was aware of the problem Intel faced, but, according to a sales engineer in the Hauppauge, New York, headquarters of Intel’s Atlantic Region, “the message wasn’t getting through to management on the West Coast.” On November 2,...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
college herself. Perhaps that explains why the YPO programs and completion of the OPM Program at HBS have meant so much to her. “Harvard for me was like my dream of driving a Porsche,” she says. “It’s been the View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
video, all to improve the at-the-game experience and to keep pace with the coverage enjoyed by fans at home. Engineering Excitement If the NFL has seemed preternaturally blessed by good fortune and smart management, some of its success...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
collection of those conversations. One quick note, the first interview was recorded in our offices and the rest of them took place on campus during reunions. OK. On to the episode. I'm Jimmy Childre from OPM '18. When I finished college I...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
which focuses on financial innovation and the use of financial engineering techniques by corporations, may fit this general description, for some time now Tufano has also been involved in a very different project aimed at "trying to teach...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
economics.” She also sits on the board of Water.org, a nonprofit organization founded by actor Matt Damon and engineer and CEO Gary White, which is dedicated to enabling people in the developing world gain access to safe water and...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
get people who had different backgrounds and interests than us to make a diverse group.” Shin, a Korean-born mechanical engineer who has worked in high-tech finance, and Behrens, a software engineer from...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
sitting next to him: Allen Carpé. Carpé was a World War I veteran and an accomplished research engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories whose exploits included the stormy first ascent of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. The two men...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
legendary impresario Charlie Finley was having trouble finding a radio station to broadcast his struggling team’s games, the young entrepreneur made his pitch. “I called Mr. Finley ten days before Opening Day, and we negotiated at first without him knowing that I...
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