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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Future. "One of the biggest unknowns right now is what Saddam Hussein will be allowed to do. Most people think that his reserves are very, very large. If he were free to expand the production and export of oil, that would definitely bring...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
considering that the Nasdaq had been in a free fall for almost a year, wiping out billions in venture investments. Wilcox, invited to a partners meeting at a “relatively well-known” venture-capital firm, arrived to find only one partner...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
"downsizing," "deregulation," "venture capital," "gene engineering," and "the litigation explosion." In third place was the "Cold War's end," an event that provoked a range of alumni comment, including "trillions became available...
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- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes After graduating from HBS, Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) built a successful career in executive coaching and leadership development, working at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone. Over time, she...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of more standard fast-food chains....
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Tuesday before Thanksgiving, perhaps envisioning a respite ahead, she announced her intention to step aside. Her phone rang the moment the news hit the wires. Hello? It was Jeffrey Katzenberg, whom Whitman first met in 1989, when both...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled here. With a View Details
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Personal Services
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
butterflies, with just a hint of nausea. It’s an exhilarating ride. Yet with a Model S weighing in at roughly $80,000 to $138,000, depending on range and options, this particular ride is also beyond the reach of most consumers. But the...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
freer, but are less safe and worse off than before. Only a professional army and police force can deliver security. To calm things and establish a legitimate government, Iraq needs early free elections. This may not give Westerners the...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
"I remember thinking, I can't possibly leave this career track,' " says Camargo, who now has two daughters. "But when you have a child, your priorities just shift. It frees you from thinking that you have to keep going in the same...
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- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find meaning in...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
me a ton of free chocolate. And now I am married to that man.” It sounds like the plot of a rom-com—and there are plenty of the standard detours along the way too—but that, in the words of Paige Gebhardt Cognetti (MBA 2014), is how she...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles management across both companies, for example, View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and planning for and managing a growing business needs careful thought. Drawing on a wide range of models, research, and case studies from across the business world, Merson offers practical advice and guidance on a View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” read posters and banners all around the Swiss resort, while Indian success stories such as Infosys Technologies were the talk of movers and shakers at swank soirees. The spotlight continued...
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Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
“The presentation detailed different scenarios that could lead to a Constitutional crisis and how things might unfold after election,” says Van Sheets (MBA 1983), who organized the event, which was open to Harvard Club of Dallas members as well. Sheets says 74 people...
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Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm itself, did not leave time for...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),...
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Garry Emmons