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- 01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
you can create the right environment for a group to address issues together." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Never underestimate the importance of the 'softer' management lessons you learn at HBS—the ones that revolve around working with and leading...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
at DC's Community Foundation to support issues they believe in, primarily empowerment of women and girls, ocean conservation, and sustainable cities. Organizations that have benefited from their involvement include numerous...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and...
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Jennifer Mele
- 01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business & Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines what they see as the role of business and business leaders in...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Remix
harassed or assaulted, Dixon stayed tuned in. “I remember being like, ‘Wow. They’re believing these women. They’re getting the benefit of the doubt. Good for them,’ ” she says. “Also I thought, ‘This has nothing to do with me.’ ” “The...
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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
ourselves by putting clients first, by charging a fair fee, and by focusing on their best interests. I'm proud of the fact that virtually everybody who has been connected with the firm — employees, clients, advisers, business partners — has View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and...
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- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
advocacy as an employee for benefits or for resources that can help you live more sustainably. Or whether that's on the operational level for you as a manager or a director, the teams that you manage or influence. How can those products...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
environment its original owners never envisioned. As other independent booksellers before her had discovered, Brody realized that the store could never compete with its bigger rivals on price or—with just 1,000 square feet of space—on...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts
got to be able to engage institutions at that level because any kind of strictly local solution is going to fail. Third, we need to tell our stories better than we have. Instead of describing the environment as something out there that’s...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell
UNCLOS, also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, asserting that it cedes too much power to the UN. At the commission, we believe ratification will spur research in the Arctic Ocean that will have major benefits for the United States. The...
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- 01 Feb 2013
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Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
the conservation transactions that are so important our investment strategy. We strongly believe in the benefits of a strategy that appeals to both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, since it allows us to access more...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
experience with Motorola Mobility, Yarlagadda saw a safe and economical solution. Yarlagadda developed a solar-powered LED lantern that turns a few hours of sunlight into more than double the lighting power. “I priced my lanterns at $25...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
implement meaningful campaign-finance reform and curb special-interest groups corrupts sound energy policymaking.” To begin to break this cycle, Bazerman proposes several steps. For example, the new 2009 administration could make decisions that bestow visible and...
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