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- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
still works out with former and current world champions at least five days a week at one of the martial arts academies he owns in Singapore. Sityodtong launched Evolve Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in 2009 as a response to an unanswered...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link...
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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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- 24 Apr 2014
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Leading the way in times of crisis
inspiring to see ordinary people respond with courage and humanity,” recalls Lhota, who worked to get New York’s business community up and running. This battle-tested native New Yorker’s leadership experience also includes managing major...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
deprived them of their bargaining power, at least into April when the presidential order expired. There is, however, a better way - one that would permit the contending parties to fight it out while limiting the costs to themselves and...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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In the Driver's Seat
NASCAR racing is one of the more popular spectator sports in the country, but it's a tight little fraternity that's tough to join and expensive to belong to — maintaining a competitive team costs about $15 million per season. But die-hard racing buff Jeffrey Roe...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this year's 25th Reunion will be pleased...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
a 15-minute drive from our campus. One of the hijackers had spent his last night at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, a 13-minute walk from where we were sitting. “Today is obviously not an ordinary day,” she continued, battling mightily to...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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The State of Play
where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
remember being with my classmates for that. It felt like a bit of a protective bubble, which I was grateful for.” Morning commute: “I lived in Davis Square, and every morning I would take the T to Harvard Square and walk across the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate math problems. "Of course I had no...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns
The room I shared with my parents and five siblings was about one hundred square feet; next to our room lived the “red ladies” or prostitutes, and on the other side, the heroin addicts. Yes, there was crime and poverty; but there was also...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and health standards. He served a one-year term, from which he was just released. Ackman, a leading real estate investor and chairman emeritus of the Ackman Ziff Real Estate Group LLC and member of the advisory board of the Pershing View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve
technology so that we can reach out in a low-cost, scalable way,” Mahajan explains. Rocket targets the least educated and most impoverished families in India. Many parents earn between one and two dollars a day doing construction or...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
table having an interesting conversation with someone about the way the world works. There is a certain seamlessness between business and the everyday lives of ordinary people. I wanted to create that same kind of seamlessness in the...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Perception versus Reality
entrepreneurship just doesn’t square with reality. Our special focus coverage of entrepreneurship in this issue will help set the record straight — starting with the cover photo. The pictured trio aren’t the future of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
identifying and retaining best practices from each organization, he also introduced new ones, including a worldwide evaluation and compensation system. Today, all Novartis employees have at least 10 percent of their pay based on...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research
investigators, even the most successful ones in the world, spend at least 25 percent of their time trying to get money. If they can’t get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
—pages that span 140 years of history. And I do not say this lightly. I read at least 600 stories to cull them down to the 100-plus that made the cut. Did you consider other approaches before settling on the three-theme approach? I’ve...
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