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- 01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
penned: “The episode of House where Dr. Kutner, played by Kal Penn, is killed. Kal was leaving the show, and we needed a creative way to get rid of him. I pitched that he kills himself, and it’s the one mystery that House can never figure...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right
fifth-generation nuclear capabilities. The threat of nuclear aggression among powerful nations did not disappear with the Cold War; it remains a major challenge for the United States and poses a more serious danger than terrorism. The...
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- 21 Apr 2014
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A lifetime of quiet leadership
which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
think about democracy and information. If a company from Ghana invented some kind of nuclear missile and wanted to bring nukes through the United States on their way to Canada, you wouldn’t think that was...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
The research is part of the HBS US Competitiveness Project, launched in 2010 to assess structural challenges to the US economy and identify ways that leaders in business, labor, government, and academia can work together to address those...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival
industrial commons, which represents the collective capability to sustain innovation. Pisano: Is there a future? Yes. It’s not too late. There’s still a manufacturing base in the United States, and it’s quite large even though it’s a...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
unemployment. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase is controversial. Why is that? Because the conversation is really about much more than a technical debate on the costs and benefits. Most people are aware that the long-term economic path for the View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution
MBAs in retail, starting in the bargain basement of Bloomingdale’s. He worked his way up through the ranks of the department store to chairman and CEO, establishing the old, family-owned store as a national luxury brand and the flagship...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: John Doerr
returns based on innovation and intellectual property. It's more than the Internet, more than Silicon Valley. At the moment, we're in a full-fledged tech recession in the United States, with scary implications for the global economy....
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- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
landed a job at Siebel Systems out of HBS, Rawdon was well on her way to building a portfolio of professional experiences that would, she felt, improve her chances of successfully launching a business. Within a few weeks, however, she...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Reinventing Marketing
The following article is the fifth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. "With the time-honored marketing maxim "the customer is king" now reverberating throughout all parts of the firm, the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06), focus not on how the View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding social services originated. It’s...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe
suffering—from chronic back pain, insomnia, and asthma. “My body was failing in response to the way I was approaching life,” he says now. “It was the cumulative impact of a long career of high expectations, high performance, and high...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company dedicated to finding safe View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Complements to the Case Method
Administration. “The person who can go out and find the diamond gets the highest return.” Once they do, students present their idea—a stock pitch—to an actual hedge fund manager who is invited to each class to offer critiques. “They forced us to rebuild a lot of the...
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- 25 Jun 2013
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A Common Purpose
Memorial Global Initiative Fund supports HBS global activities such as case writing, curriculum development, and fellowships for students coming to the School from outside the United States. “We started from a place of tragedy,” reflects...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Lying in bed each morning, Emily Batt (MS/MBA 2020) yearned to sleep a little longer, but had no way of knowing when her roommate would...
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