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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
programs require. The quality of our students is also at the core of what HBS is about. As a community and a school, we have a special responsibility to reach out -- through fellowships and other forms of financial assistance -- to make...
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Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
says. “It’s all about brainstorming how you can leverage resources and market forces to spin off quality outcomes like affordable housing, new job opportunities, and goods and services that may be missing in...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
administrative overhead has fallen approximately 25 percent. “It’s an efficient, functional system,” he adds, citing the program’s capability in database management and automatic processing — two particularly useful qualities when it...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. As frequent targets of investment pitches, some of which turn out to be scams, several participants said they had already learned enough to be more astute in evaluating proposals that come their way. For their part, HBS...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
startup to Dropbox, Carpenter is the protagonist of another case coauthored by Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (MBA 1996). “Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial” details his efforts to build and grow an online financial services...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
exposure by distinguishing the thicker parts of a person’s body from the thinner areas that need less radiation. This limits exposure and thus, provides a safer and better service to patients,” Tantawy explains. “Also, in whole-body...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
and continuing to improve the quality of service provided. “We have a tremendously successful organization with a legacy of winning. The challenge is to continue to evolve and adapt to the new realities of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
for the U.S. style. Companies adopting the U.S.-style of governance, however, are in the minority. Q: How do you see business in Japan developing in the years ahead? A: Major changes are currently taking place in the Japanese economy, politics, and society. The View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
virus. “They created products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in-person gatherings aren’t possible,” explains Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
amazed that we've come so far so fast," says Associate Professor David M. Upton, who has spearheaded the latest initiative with the strategic input of Clark and many others on the faculty, the services of a legion of IT professionals, and...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
you knew it, new factories were built close by to supply the first plant. Out of what was one plant, often in the middle of nowhere, seven or eight years later you’d see thriving communities. These plants produced products and services...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
of service.” Kanter was followed by Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen, an adviser to several presidential administrations. Gergen cited polls that reveal Americans’ deepening discontent with the quality of leadership across...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and the right to sell their View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, Sahlman highlighted some of the qualities that make Dr. John’s what he modestly termed “a reasonable case,” noting that it’s fairly straightforward while including the classic framework of...
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