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- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were once reserved for...
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- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
great-grandmother had her first child at age 17 and had twin boys at age 49. If you keep that in mind, you can see why it’s not always possible for cousins to find each other when their parents or grandparents emigrated to the United...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
how artists work will have an advantage over those who don’t.” Artful Making is the product of an unlikely intellectual collaboration. Austin, a former technology implementation manager at Ford, is an assistant professor at HBS who...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
him by Max. Starting with one store in the 1950s financed by his mother’s trust fund, his father has taken advantage of the heyday of shopping malls to grow the St. Louis–based business to hundreds of locations across the United States....
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are now taking View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
20 million doses by the end of the year. One advantage to the Moderna vaccine is that it does not need ultra-cold storage, making it easier to transport and store. To read more about Moderna and Bancel, visit the HBS Alumni Stories page....
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
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 explains why and how individual...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
for 47.5 million naira (about $130,000). “Lidya lets us take advantage of these opportunities and move on,” he says. Ejeh’s story is part of a chorus of capital-hungry voices that led Tunde Kehinde (MBA 2011) to cofound Lidya in November...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
20th century, who your parents were, whom you knew, and the community you belonged to were key factors. For business leaders, being part of the right society might also mean being either Episcopalian or Presbyterian. Regardless of the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Illustrated by Julie Kwon Little, Brown Books for Young Readers This children’s book by Cherie Fu is a pitch-perfect rhyming text about messiness that any child and parent can relate to, featuring a unique Chinese-American,...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
just steaming around in circles." Even as Liz Claiborne circled, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's largest airline, was in the process of laying off several hundred managers, technical specialists, and clerical...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them. In other words, Cuba was open for business. Cuba Educational Travel (CET) was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the opening. Founder Collin Laverty had first visited Cuba on a family trip as a teenager, later completing an...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
rail," Le Roy Moore observes. "I often think about Professor Bharat Anand's strategy course. He was always talking about how competitive advantage is at the crux of a company's strategy but only works if the entire organization is aligned...
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