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- 01 Apr 2001
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HBS Bon Mot Enriches the Lingo
Pick a word or phrase you love to hate, be it “impactful,” “scalable,” “mission-critical,” “face time,” or...well, don’t get us started. Such utterances, unlike memorable, enduring slang terms, are ephemeral due to their very vapidity. They are “buzzwords,” according...
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- 22 Dec 2014
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42 Student Startups That Won Big This Year
- 01 Aug 2014
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Cross-Class Connection
These two volunteers forged a cross-class connection that resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. When Alex Crisses stepped up to cochair his 5th Reunion, he decided to couple his own ideas about what would appeal to his...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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"Paying forward" as a mentor to high-tech and science start-ups
Emile Bellott (AM 1973, PhD 1976, MBA 1978), a consultant in bio-pharmaceuticals, talks about his work as a mentor to new companies in high tech and medicine. (Published April 2014)
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded, globally, each year. She saw an...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of the best-selling books The...
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- 24 Apr 2020
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Spreading the Love
Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with sourcing personal protective equipment (PPE), they knew they could...
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- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary schools, she thought, seemed to be getting better in the...
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- 04 Apr 2018
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym G.I.R.L.” In late 2016, Pitter-Armand, head of brand...
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- 14 Mar 2014
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Start-up Takes the Legwork out of Shopping
- 11 Mar 2014
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3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment
- 01 Sep 2003
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Books
Experimentation Matters by Stefan H. Thomke Becoming a Manager (second edition) by Linda A. Hill What Really Works by William Joyce, Nitin Nohria, and Bruce Roberson The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Experimentation Matters by...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Powering Up
GILER: A better way, through wireless. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe/Landov Nothing seems to hold back the tech revolution — nothing except all those batteries, wires, cables, and other impedimenta that are always running out of power, getting tripped over, becoming...
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- 19 Feb 2013
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Sam Adams: Now (finally) in a can
- 22 Jul 2024
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Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service...
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- 23 Sep 2022
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Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Spirit in Your Family Business
- 18 May 2022
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