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- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including one year at the University of...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five distinguished alumni are role models of what leaders can do,...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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High Fives
Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
school academic. Having already completed undergraduate degrees both in economics and in law at the University of Bonn, she went on to receive her doctorate in law there after two years of practical...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
We see a strong push from customers and investors to adopt climate-positive policies and products. And we see movement to adopt policies that emphasize human consequences, these in addition to traditional approaches to compliance with environmental View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
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Back to School
Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican
interest — on this mostly Republican $10 trillion debt, up from slightly less than $1 trillion when Reagan took office, is equivalent to about 40 percent of all the personal income taxes Americans pay each year. Imagine what would happen...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
think the client hasn’t found his or her mate yet, so I can quickly get in-depth emotional indicators. Those sources will say things to me that they would never say to the client. That feedback is a confidential, incredibly powerful process that allows me to have...
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- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
retired and who can have financial security in their golden years because their finances were managed well. It could be a young person buying their first stock. It could be a small-business owner needing capital. If those people couldn’t...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2014
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Agent of change
Working in law enforcement made Skovran notice inefficiencies in the way the government approached societal problems. "I became interested in finding more effective ways to reduce crime and violence," she says about her decision to pursue...
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- 17 Sep 2021
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Clearing the Path to Citizenship
independent immigration attorneys review the applications. The company also helps the client prepare for the interview and even celebrates the final approval with them—all at a fraction of the cost of a personal immigration attorney,...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
HBS Grads Make Their Mark in India
Group CEO Abhi Shah (MBA ’06) Clutch Group is a global provider of legal support services, working with corporate legal departments and major law firms. Founded in 2006, based in Washington, D.C., with offices in Cleveland, Chicago, and...
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- 06 Oct 2020
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Clearing the Path to Citizenship
celebrates the final approval with them. The price for its assistance for a marriage green card application: $950, a fraction of the cost of a personal immigration attorney. “We are doing this at scale,” Wang says to explain the savings....
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April White
- 31 Jul 2019
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Honoring the Code
and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.” “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” went into effect when President Clinton came in, 1993. I'm commanding a ship in Norfolk,...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996) was 18 years into a successful legal career at a law firm in Perth, Western Australia, when she came to HBS. Bishop, who describes the AMP program as a time of “reflection, learning, and inspiration” graduated...
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Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 02 Dec 2018
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Fostering Great Leadership
Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could get to his position,” he says. “That’s how I ended up earning both business and View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Thinking Green
Sciences and the Design, Medical, and Law Schools for a Harvard Thinks Green forum in Sanders Theatre. “This transition we face as an economy, as a world is going to hit every major industry,” said Henderson. Kaplan, a member of a Harvard...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation
Industries for the Blind (NIB) in Alexandria, Virginia, a post he assumed in 1998, Gibbons is the first blind person ever to lead the 63-year-old agency. Previously, he had worked at AT&T, first in operations management and later in...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes
managers' time to educate them, communicate with them, and develop informal relationships with them so those owners will have a better understanding of what the company is trying to do." Who Gets the Credit for Bankruptcy? The number of View Details
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Judith A. Ross