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- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
team. Hyman writes that it will serve the best interests of its 1,200 employees, without whom Rent the Runway would not exist, but she also expects it to benefit the company itself—in the form higher retention rates, lower training costs,...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because Schultz, like a latter-day Johnny...
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- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some...
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Margie Kelley
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
2016 The Atlantic awarded Magazine of the Year Chairman, Atlantic Media David Bradley sits at an Arlington, Virginia, diner, his papers spread out in front of him. Dapper and courteous, he evokes a different era as he takes notes on index...
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Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
entrepreneurial ventures and family businesses. Asked to head SCMP in 1981, he shifted the program's focus toward the interests and needs of owner/managers. He devised a unique schedule spread over three...
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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up his majority stake so that...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
in our safety performance.” Under her watch, Anglo American has taken a much more collaborative role with the towns where the company operates. “We are not interested in coming in and getting all we can out of the land and then leaving,”...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Everyone gets to be an undertaker,” he says, pointing through a windowed hive at a bee dragging away a dead peer. Price has been spreading his love of honeybees for 10 years through his Sweet Virginia Foundation, which is dedicated to...
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Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
Hendrickson says: with personal connections. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has developed strong connections in the Valley, so the team started with his network and then spread out, meeting with startup founders and venture capitalists....
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Jason Feifer
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
remarks. “It is a powerful tool to catalyze a global shift in how societies view the concept of competitiveness.” Porter says that he's encouraged by the strong interest in the course and agrees that it could be View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
Cambodian invasion was launched, unrest on university campuses spread rapidly through the country. At HBS, in the wake of the May 4 student shootings at Kent State, a group of over a thousand people gathered spontaneously on the lawn in...
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Ted Anthony
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
speaking, people were more defensive and pessimistic, with a strong focus on income stability,” he says.“Now there’s a greater sense of the rewards that come from doing something interesting that you enjoy.” How to: Introduce consumers to...
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- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
identified a promising option: reflective hollow glass microspheres. Made primarily of silica, a naturally occurring substance, the microspheres are similar to fine, white beach sand but with the ability to float. When spread across new...
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April White
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
"The 1996 group was tremendously enthusiastic," notes Garvin, who decided to repeat the program this fall. This year's e-mail invitation netted three times as many volunteers, including several alumni participants who signed up a second time. "I think they enjoyed the...
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Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
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 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get more interesting jobs: the...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
interest among students has been increasing. MW: Julie is right. SEI has had a tremendous amount of influence here, but also in the broader community. By establishing an effort around social enterprise at HBS, it helped to say, “Business...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are...
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Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running,...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand.” The case also highlights the spread of the blockbuster phenomenon. Ten years ago, a book was considered a success if it sold 200,000 copies. Today, the bar has been raised to 1.5...
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