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- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
setup, Hall explains, is much like a venture capital fund. "We basically seek the highest-performing charter school organizations, and give them philanthropic funds to help them build a long-term sustainable model," he says. CSGF has seen a strong View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
found the prices so reasonable that he returned to consider — and, eventually, purchase — something in the ten-carat range. Birnbaum notes that this particular client first made contact with the firm five years earlier. In a...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
enfranchised in the solution,” Whitman stated. “We need more explanation, and we need more leadership across the board.” Mahindra of India’s Mahindra & Mahindra called for a “reset” and a return to fundamentals. “Banking is about...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) Penguin Press In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little...
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Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
plan for: The HBS survey found that 83 percent of alumnae expected to successfully combine their jobs and their personal lives, while only 47 percent said their expectations matched with the reality; 86...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors
There is an inescapable sense of history in the Bulletin's Sherman Hall offices, where three eight-foot-long bookshelves sag under the weight of 75 years of musty, leather-bound volumes of the magazine. But as often as our editors have View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
something that you don’t like. We have all of these rules and regulations in our public health, in our medicine. And this building’s got sprinkler systems in it. Do we expect this room to catch on fire? No! Why do we put sprinklers in it?...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
the initiative is still a work in progress, the goal is to help leaders through peer-to-peer learning in group settings. “We expect over the next few years to dramatically increase the scale of work we do in this area,” says Bradach. The...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
decade? More important, how might it come back? Simmons turns Dell’s rise, fall, and return into cogent lessons for business leaders. She combines insightful interviews from former Dell employees, seminal innovation thinking from authors...
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- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
foods, the population grew—and grew older. At 84, Japan’s life expectancy is now the longest in the world. About 36 million people, or 28 percent of the population, are over the age of 65 (compared to 15 percent in the United States). And...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
past year. Becoming copresident (with classmate Sophie Bromberg) of the WSA is one of many surprising turns Ma's life has taken since she came to Harvard as an undergraduate eight years ago. She expected to follow in the footsteps of her...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
expecting anyone to take hold of it, and then someone does, in a warm, accepting way.” The experience solidified Massie's beliefs in compassion, social justice, and the importance of serving others. In 1978, Massie enrolled at Yale...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
supplements correct dosages for each horse. You can probably picture what happened next: the hasty return trip to SmartPak’s offices and the tears and bad feelings that come from cutting short a visit to the Magic Kingdom when you have...
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- 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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