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- 01 Jun 1998
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Project outreach
Devon E. Winey (MBA '98) prepares to paint a hallway at Second Step Transitional Living Center, a home for victims of domestic violence. Three students plant flowers at Boston Senior Home Care. A group of enthusiastic students spent the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Photo courtesy of Barbara Bry The words connection and communication define Barbara Bry's career, from her student days to her current position as vice president for business development at Proflowers.com, the largest direct-from-the-grower View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal
future relationships. B2B firms that make special accommodations for customers in need today could reap the benefits of long-term loyalty. As an example, wedding website theknot.com is providing financial assistance to vendors such as caterers and View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
more championship rings in him.” Next passport stamp: Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom known for its Gross National Happiness index. Recommended reading: Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur. “She’s a young Sikh woman who...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
send you flowers for. When I was hospitalized, my mother gave me a copy of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, a memoir of living with bipolar illness. Years later, that book was my inspiration for starting the Stability Network. I...
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- 04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
Yahoo! Inc. sent her flowers with a card saying that they, too, were leaving at 5:30. “I didn’t realize how much noise there would be,” Sandberg says. “A friend told me, ‘You couldn’t have gotten more publicity if you murdered someone...
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- 11 May 2011
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The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
kinds), and 350 flowering trees (24 kinds). John Moody of the Operations Department tells me that they’ll happily accept more additions, named or unnamed, to the greening of the HBS campus.
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution
we can think of, on a floppy disk or CD. And by tapping on your computer keyboard and rearranging the order and number of these ones and zeroes, you can send an e-mail, write an English paper, or transmit a photograph.” Enriquez then holds aloft a Christmas cactus...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
"Now we're the Establishment!" « Back A Blooming Business Perhaps you're looking for an arrangement of tropical Hawaiian flowers for your office lobby, a bonsai rosemary plant for your gourmet kitchen, or a bouquet of orchids for your...
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- 05 May 2022
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Like-Minded
the fact that their maiden names all begin with the letter M, which inspired the company’s name), the women had all been raised on entrepreneurship. Murakami’s mother had started a company in her 40s. Matsu’s parents, immigrants, founded one of the largest View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
“dirt” spread to a depth of three and a half inches. Planted at eight-inch intervals are 9,000 tiny perennials, including eight varieties of drought-tolerant sedum, a low-growing, flowering plant with water-storing leaves. Rather than...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
Manhattan, she found something special. “I lost my mind when we drove up to this place,” says Reade as she takes a visitor on a tour of the 1706 farmhouse, a large hay-filled barn, a sparse building where she packs the berries and vegetables, a vast View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
replies, "When I see the film clip of gymnast Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Games receiving her gold medal, I think: 'The flowers left the refrigerator 20 minutes before she got them; the medal left the vault 45 minutes ago and was carried...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
there was a horrible blizzard the weekend of Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and...
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- 07 Apr 2021
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Road Work
when you're on a motorcycle traveling, especially through these small remote areas. So I became very enamored of riding into small remote areas on a motorcycle, experiencing the local cuisines, smelling the difference in the terrain as you ride, whether it be the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
Woodstock in 1969. “Let all our actions, and all our arts, express Yoga,” he told the crowd of some 400,000 people, before leading them in a resounding “om,” a resonant sound considered sacred in yoga texts. In later decades, as the View Details
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
managerialism, do business schools retain any genuine academic or societal mission? Having participated, inadvertently or not, in the wholesale discrediting of American management that flowered during the rise of investor capitalism in...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as on-demand View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace
workers with mental illness? Switz: I would like to see a person who's struggling with a mental health condition get flowers or a card. I would love to see that person get support in transitioning back to work. I'd love to see the mental...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur
bowl, other years baskets of fruit and preserves. One time Charlotte and I were invited to a dinner at the Faculty Club, that would follow a meeting of the HBS Visiting Committee at which I was to make a presentation. When we accepted, he sent Charlotte a large bouquet...
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