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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
furniture retailers and logistics companies using data OneSource Global Express. Or, learn more about the evolving customer base in Mexico. Delve into ABI/Proquest to read articles about firms like Amazon, View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
— water provision to the urban poor, water education, and environmental protection — that reflect the social issues we can address as a water and wastewater service provider. These programs were carefully planned so that they can help...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
alumni, faculty, and environmental industry leaders. “We invited several of our alumni guests to host each event and give a short talk, to paint a picture of the future for energy, so our current students can bring those ideas back to HBS and make the best View Details
- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
nonprofits a year,” either through direct engagement or in pro-bono brainstorming sessions. “It’s a wonderful way to give back,” says Club President Jan Gullet (MBA 1977). “We’ve done the research. Our members tell us what they value most...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
better prepared and more resilient for success in the face of life’s uncertainties. Many Colors Make a Rainbow: Diversity & Inclusion Make Us Better Together By Doctor Daffee a.k.a David Fisher (MBA 1980) Book Biz LLC In a beautiful...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
who spoke no English, and enrolled in a French lycée. It was a sign, perhaps, of things to come: a leap (albeit well-considered) into a strange, exciting environment where there was little under his control but no shortage of opportunity. He next won a National Merit...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
much unstoppable when he sets his sights on something. In the past, that has included carving green space out of Atlanta’s urban wastelands; writing legislation to preserve Georgia’s Native American archaeological sites threatened by...
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- 11 Oct 2012
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Answering the Doctor's Call
says he never forgot one speech given by then-Dean John McArthur. “He encouraged us to embrace our community in a significant way,” Downing recalls. “He said we had been uniquely blessed and that we needed to reach out where we live. That...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
In the course of an hour-long interview, Keith T. Clinkscales (MBA '90), president of Vibe magazine, drops close to fifty names. Those mentioned by this 35-year-old CEO of an enterprise that is considered "da bomb" (a high compliment) among its View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,...
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- 22 Jul 2016
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Let’s Talk Dating
(Tinder) (Tinder) As CEO of Tinder India, Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015) is at the center of a cultural shift: In a country where arranged marriage is still the norm, more and more young people are connecting outside of family-approved channels. “In View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with very different...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Ideas That Stick
demonstrate in their book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Random House, 2007). They chronicle not only urban legends but real-life success stories, explaining how six principles of stickiness (simple, unexpected,...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
became its own initiative, with Kapoor as the head: “My goal—our goal—is to move to autonomous, electric, shared fleets,” he says, thereby unlocking simultaneous gains in safety, carbon emissions, and urban congestion. The future has...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2014
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MBAs take their business acumen on the road
entrepreneurs. “Cases are a great start, but we learned countless lessons by making the leap from paper to practice,” Alaoui says. What started as an seven-city, eight-week road trip logging 8,000 miles is now a movement taking shape with teams applying from top View Details