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- 01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra
1977 Bill Ahlhauser “Life is all about the possibility of doing good, whatever one's circumstance.” Banthoon Lamsam If his father is watching over him, he is likely to feel proud. Susan McIntosh “When you have been given a talent, you are obligated to View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
could feel the flashback chills begin. On the surface, volunteer conferences at HBS seem pretty enjoyable. They provide a chance for those of us who contribute our time in one way or another to catch up on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
engaged campus community. Beyond the campus, the program’s impact is evident in a revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it."... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston
R. Brown Convention Center, which had been mostly parking lots, into Discovery Green, now known for its kayaking and performance spaces. The Partnership has just finished a $53 million capital campaign, which is being used to add 14,000... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
customers and the community, and differentiates us from our competitors," explains Jackson. "It's all part of our business strategy for leading BankBoston into the 21st century and is consistent with the philosophy of managing with values... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
You can get anyone who has children who need help, right now, it’s 13 years and over, but there’s math, science, and SAT help. Live tutoring. You can get on particular subjects. You can join a cohort that meets regularly. And we now in the US, well, anyone in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
process is now on the Web. “The only paper we get is from recommenders who don’t feel comfortable using a computer,” notes Dewey. Even decision notifications are sent via e-mail. The new Web-based application process arrived just in View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Organic Matter
with nearly 30 times the heat-trapping powers of CO2—represents 10 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions; according to the EPA, dairies and other livestock operations account for a third of that amount.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
In feature articles in the September issue of Harvard Business Review, three HBS professors offered useful ideas about leadership and decision-making. In "What You Don't Know about Making Decisions," Professor David Garvin and Assistant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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Turning Point: Getting to Giving
classes I teach at our church. Now I talk to people about money all the time. At HBS, Professor Malcolm Salter gave us this advice in our last class together: “Live beneath your means.” At the time it struck... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
the most influential education is going to happen when Bitcoin finds a killer use case. So far, that case hasn’t emerged, but once those use cases start solving real problems for large groups of people,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
Last Christmas, many of the headlines spelled out trouble in toyland. FAO Schwarz sunk deeper into bankruptcy, KB Toys was having a hard time making ends meet (and filed Chapter 11 in January), and Toys “R” Us, which closed its Kids “R”... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
help. First, he used a genealogy website that showed him that the surname had a high concentration in the Detroit area. And then, he ran a targeted search on Facebook for the name in that area. There were some hits, but no luck on a... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
I was hired as the HBS Bulletin editor only about six months after John McArthur took over as the new Dean of the School. He was young - 46, younger than I am now, which I find sobering - but boy, I was really young. My local champion hid my bicycle and backpack every... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2016
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Delivering Trust
those who had contributed through free, personal Skype sessions. “Every call reminded us that we were dealing with a very human subject and creating something by, and for, a community,” says Jake. “Seeing in real View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna