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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
in Cambodia, advocating for women’s rights in several emerging coun- tries, and many more such actions. I am immeasurably proud of being a part in touching so many lives and will always look favorably on this past chapter of my life. I...
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- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
2013. Target was a big Fortune 50 company. They had all the best products; they had good engineers, good policies, good practices. Yet they got hacked in a very big, public way. They lost 40 million records. That was a tipping point for...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business....
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
development of the new Asia-Pacific Research Office. As the HBS faculty increases its activities in Asia, the School must stay in touch with academics and practitioners who live there, Hayes observed. "Perhaps in the process of getting to...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
inflection point in history, leaving one age and entering another. Many of our philosophical assumptions about what constituted leadership and competitive success grew out of a different world. The challenge now is to help managers...
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by Staff
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers, and even computer networking...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
is very deep and wide in our society, for better or worse. The other reason to be engaged in it is we haven't looked at it seriously for 30 years. It's something that touches every aspect of social policy. It's a much broader and deeper...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
business opportunities touch politics. Can you become involved in energy without having a really tight relationship with the government? Probably not. We recently wrote a case on Turkcell, the leading telecom operator. For this type of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
to take over the show. Singer had been told that writing a spec script was the way to break into the business, so he wrote a spec West Wing, which happened to be one of his favorite shows. “The writing probably wasn’t very good, but I think John liked the ambition of...
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- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
how you incentivize, can increase or deplete the amount of altruistic capital." Ashraf's interest in international field research sprouted from the realization that the people tasked with solving global problems aren't always in touch...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
analyses of data covering 69 two-digit SIC industries at two points in time, 1991 and 1999. In both years, approximately half of advertisers of all sizes operated an in-house agency. Across industries, we find that the likelihood of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
changing environment with the growing acceptance of online retailing that empowered customers by providing greater price transparency and more options. Marketing channels and communication touch points...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
available reaches a certain point. There's debate about where the point is, but let's say ten megabits per second. That's roughly twenty times faster than most cable modem connections in the United States. Once that is in place, and is...
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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
beer, or drive their auto, much of what they're consuming is the allegory. The demand that brandtopias sate is based upon the nation's ideology as expressed in popular culture. So shifts in ideology produce ruptures in the marketplace for utopias. Holt's model reveals...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J....
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
the consumer.'" Odd as it sounds, the customer has not been a historical focus for the movie theater industry. As Ramsey points out, the business got going in the 1930s and 1940s, when it was typical for one print of a movie to be...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
responsive and agile.” Not long after returning from that initial factory tour, Viana realized two things: First, no bank would touch Jeannette. Second, the government, which had expressed an interest in seeing such an old, French company...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
impression and maximize your chances of survival and success under the new regime. Some of that advice may surprise you. One CEO pointed out, for instance, that "managers do not realize how much the CEO is looking for teammates on...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
get to the point where we're really honest ourselves. Took me a while to get there—when I can admit my mistakes and be honest. Because then once you do that, then you can be anything you want to be. DM: Chad, what are your thoughts on the...
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