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- 08 Nov 2018
- News
Bookshelf: November / December 2018
- 20 Mar 2014
- News
Europe? Yes, we can
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
friend of mine who was in her class, and when I entered the room, I saw her. She was actually not facing me, and I remember thinking, oh, I should sit next to this girl—without having seen her face. And from that moment, we hit it off....
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
advancement and to be a part of the generation that would steer Mongolia toward a brighter future. In late 2017, I returned home. I served as an advisor to a cabinet secretary and later as the vice minister of mining and heavy industry....
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- 16 May 2024
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On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Appointed Managing Director, Alcan, Limerick, Ireland 2002 Appointed CEO, Alcan Primary Metal Group 2006 Named one of “50 Women to Watch” by WSJ 2007 Appointed Chief Executive, Anglo American 2008 Implements “zero harm” policy to improve safety in the View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State
cases as “The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue” and “SOFWERX: Innovation at US Special Operations Command,” as well as Karim Lakhani’s work on data analytics and AI. For Carol Perez, now acting under secretary of state for management, a key...
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- 11 Jul 2017
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The Right Thing to Do
and the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, which killed 39 people. At the time, the company was run by Don Blankenship, a hard-charging CEO who put profit ahead of safety. In the five years before the disaster,...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
"Unfortunately," he says, "hockey is the one sport that aggravates my old injury. Fans hear about big contracts but they should remember that careers like mine can be cut short in an instant. These days," he smiles, "the only...
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James E. Aisner
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
play. The family had sold off a lot of its holdings, so we didn’t control the stock. And luckily, through the advice and again, listening to a classmate of mine from business school—a guy that sat next to me, a guy by the name of Peter...
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brands;
leadership;
management;
strategy;
operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
Anglo American in 2007, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll determined that increased transparency was important if the company—and the industry as a whole—was going to improve its safety record. “People responded...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Setting the standards higher for safety and success
Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989), former CEO of Anglo American PLC, talks about the impact of her decision to make mining safety the company's highest goal. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
lowered your rate and mine all the way to 28 percent. (Things began to right themselves when Clinton put it back up to 39.6 percent.) And then again when George W. Bush cut our long-term gains rate by a quarter and the tax rate on our...
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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
can not always be positive. No rose gardens. So this experience of mine helped me very much. JH: Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) is treasurer and COO at the Ford Foundation, enabling the organization's grantmaking program as it...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
The problem is to find the way to make it possible for them to receive what they have earned.” (1969) “Incidentally, an old Hahvahd business acquaintance of mine was bugging me for a long time about how I ought to forsake this primitive...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
at home.” Futures market: “Australia is in its 24th year of consecutive economic growth; over the next 10 years I believe the country will achieve even more due not only to our mining and energy assets, but also to our capacity to harness...
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Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
was software that could mine huge databases and organize information that was both usable and affordable for small businesses. But when it didn’t take off with its target customers, Slayton and his team were quick to adapt. Sensing a new...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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A Hollywood Backstory
an abrupt halt: Ellen will not be involved in anything that even remotely suggests cruelty to animals. Similarly, a friend of mine who's an Oscar-nominated cinematographer will not even consider working on films that show children getting...
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