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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
giant and added to his growing expertise in what it takes to “compete for a share of the entertainment hour” — a talent his beloved hometown baseball team, in dire economic straits back in San Francisco, sorely needed. Bye-Bye Giants Top: Trophy time: Giants lead owner...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark
technology environment while they're at school, because they're going to have to understand and manage technology in their subsequent careers. BULLETIN: Can you generalize about how the students have responded? CLARK: We like to think...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
Motown vice president and head of the label's $48 million catalog business, Bond is introducing the same Motown sound she enjoyed as a child to a new generation of listeners. "This music is such a big part of so many people's lives that I...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
inevitable, in its progress. Not long ago, 80 percent of heroin users began by first abusing prescription opioids. Now it’s estimated that 40 to 60 percent of addicts are skipping prescription drugs and going straight to heroin. At the...
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s random-number View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
India have worked with faculty to enrich the global content of the HBS curriculum. In addition, members of the Class of 2008 come from almost seventy countries, bringing a rich diversity of perspectives that has a profound influence on...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
cartridge system to allow users to change the musical content of the toy. “This was a very obvious design for us because we came from the computer software industry,” explains Abercrombie. “We wouldn’t...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the French rhythm of long midday breaks at home, reasonable working...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
generally granted to those who do their homework, though luck still plays a major part." "Sometimes God will fool you," agrees James Hackett. "You'll think you have something, and the readings confirm it, but when you drill down it's...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
visitors (both in person and on the Web) the opportunity to view interviews with artists, curators, and critics, while last year's "Transmute" gave Web users a chance to curate their own virtual exhibition using pieces from the MCA's...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their...
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- 20 Jul 2020
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Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
club has new energy, new leadership, and a new urgency to connect, share, and support each other,” says Adams. “This is content you’re not going to get elsewhere. We have speakers you may not hear in other venues. We want to provide an...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
your fixed costs," Bhide says. "But if, for example, you want to create a business that solves other companies' design or engineering problems, then you have an interesting opportunity. Just by working harder and faster than your competitor you'll be likely to View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
integrate with my style—and will that style serve the content well? If I can feel secure in those three dimensions, it’s possible to be absolutely in the moment, to possibly even have moments that raise teaching to an art. When students...
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- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
interest in food marketing, and spoke often of his conversations with Salmon. At that time, grocers were offering generic labels on their lower cost items: yellow bags with brown block letters identifying the View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical device company, an apartment listings app, and an exchange for View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar to Apple Health). The...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
describe what they’d done that day and to include a brief description of one event at work that stood out in their minds. (Participants were asked to refrain from discussing the diary content with colleagues.) By the end of the study,...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Harvard Business School. In an effort to ensure parity and competitiveness among all its teams—and thereby stoke fan interest—the NFL literally shares the wealth: Some 60 percent of its nationally generated television and merchandising...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page