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- 01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
The HourlyNerd origin story could become an HBS legend: The rapidly growing startup, which connects graduates from top MBA programs with businesses that need project-based consulting, began as a FIELD 3 project—one that fellow HBS classmates doomed to failure. In FIELD...
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April White
- 13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its ability to challenge existing norms. And now she's transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund, a new model of...
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- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
closer to doing humanlike things than is true. They're not. They're not humanlike in any way, they're not likely to be humanlike in the near future. The human brain really—you could think of it as two parts...
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- 30 Mar 2015
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Leveraging the power of yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
older among us; or, if we fail in that, at least the younger generation will have grown up with a presumption of incorrectness for the things that they read online. Rafael Di Tella: What Rawi is describing,...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation
Leaders have gone to great lengths in the name of innovation—and yet far too often these efforts fall short, according to Scott Anthony (MBA 2001), a senior partner at the growth-strategy consulting firm Innosight and one View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
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An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the...
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
reviewed, discussed, and agonized over the pros and cons of every option, from appointing a successor to starting their own full-fledged organization. “We knew the decisions we were making could affect many people,” David says. “It was...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired. In these markets, the most important thing is to be first, to win that Cadillac. If you’re not that leader, there’s little room to build a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Oct 2014
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Why We Need to Outsmart Our Smart Devices
- 24 Apr 2014
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The art of thinking creatively
presence was the only thing missing at HBS when I went there,” says Schwartz, founder and CEO of Onex Corp., a Toronto-based private-equity and investment firm. “I wanted to change that.” Offices at Onex,...
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- 05 Feb 2016
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The Wheel of the World
close and personal with unique, world-class historical clocks such as Eberhard Baldewein’s 16th-century astronomical clock, located in Dresden, which depicts the movement of the planets. “One of the...
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Julia Hanna
- 15 Sep 2016
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For the Good of Society
and working with Bain, and all this stuff to be of service to the world. The idea was, taking Bain and Company—and to some extent Bain Capital kinds of skills—and creating a spinout View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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New Idea: State of the Art
previous iteration, the new Cooper Hewitt “finds that merely looking at things is a hopelessly passive way of experiencing the world.” The museum work was familiar territory: Belsky’s career has focused on...
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- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
living the philosophy she laid out in her 1988 Bulletin interview: "The happier people are those who have succeeded in integrating the things they want to do, rather than carving their lives into pieces." She says View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
end of the day, it’s the people that give me hope, that they’re there for the right reasons. Pharma nowadays gets a lot of negative press at pricing and things like that. It’s...
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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
and short-term approach to solving problems in the developing world began to frustrate Brooks. “I wanted to understand the corporate side of how things work,” she explains. “Business is the lifeblood View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
of dried bananas, peanuts, and magazines from hawkers; rattletrap buses belch black filth; and all notions of right-of-way are wishful thinking. Average round-trip commutes of...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters View Details