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- 01 May 2013
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Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. Avista is currently raising its third $2 billion...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work programs, or inspiring MBAs to forge...
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- 17 Mar 2020
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A Bid for the Future
When the RFP for Amazon’s HQ2 arrived in September 2017, Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for only eight months. The commonwealth...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Student Snapshot
Alliance while attending HBS? Sometimes I think I’m crazy! Actually, it’s worked out pretty well. The second-year curriculum is project-based, so I’ve been working with several teams of HBS students and Catalyst Alliance staff on a few View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Short Takes
evolve along this continuum, forward or backward," he says, "is a useful strategic tool for managers who are assessing what type of relationship they're in and considering if and how they should progress to the next stage." In the first,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
Claudia Romo Edelman. Moderated by Steve Schaumberger (MBA 1988), chair of Strategic Partnerships for the club, the talk centered on the Hispanic Star campaign, a project of Edelman’s foundation, We Are All...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
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Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that is to look at what has changed at Bain & Company in recent years. Increasingly, our clients are demanding strategic counsel in this critical area. At least two-thirds of them currently engage Bain's services on one or more Internet...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that...
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- 15 Apr 2014
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Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
served on the HMS Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (BCMP) Council from 2000-2003. He is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne [EPFL] in Switzerland. The Bertarelli Foundation...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Social Enterprise Visionary
strengthening leadership and management in the social sector.” “What he did went well beyond just providing funding,” emphasizes Robert Burakoff, who worked with Austin and Rangan as the initiative’s first executive director. “There was a creative View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for Organizational Fitness, outline six barriers to implementing View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 11 Dec 2019
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A Righteous Path
Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent the 1,001 children who would not otherwise be able to afford an advocate. These young migrants, most of whom arrived from Central America, have...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business
“It’s making corporations question the boundaries of who and what they are accountable for in their communities.” Barrett presented guidelines for cross-sector partnerships to fight the epidemic at “HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker
initiated a multilateral debt relief program for the heavily indebted poor countries, with the Bank committing some $2 billion to this effort. New strategic partnerships have been formed with a variety of...
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- 23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
city, a country—with a clear connection to making life better for the people who live there,” Condo says. “I’ve always thought that one should try to do work that benefits society.” Michael Porter was ultimately the advisor for Condo’s DBA thesis, which included an...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change
Leadership in the Age of Climate Change that HBS has been organizing around the country in partnership with alumni clubs to understand how climate change is shaping the future of business,” says Jennifer Nash, Director of BEI, who...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Takeaways
make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling impact.” —Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out...
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April White