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- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
while higher-level management interaction with international departments was common, its day-to-day management style was localized and gave limited international exposure to some managers. By contrast, at Philip Morris International, a Switzerland–based company, there...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
the difficulty and high cost of bankruptcy. "Bankruptcy lawyers charge anywhere from $200 to $350 an hour, and I want to tell you that even for a small company, those hours can easily mount up to $20,000 or...
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- 05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio
demonstrated its unique value proposition in the large electronic b-to-b payments space with significant market traction and consistent year-over-year growth. Organizations across many industries are using NVoicePay to significantly reduce AP View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
they “enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings but were deeply mistrustful of exotic foods.” He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional...
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- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long table, chairs, and a monitor,...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
been good, but at a time when the virtues of free enterprise are rightfully being questioned, there is encouraging evidence that HBS graduates are using their leadership skills — both in the public spotlight and behind the scenes — to put the business world back on...
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Desmond Wong
- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
afford these patients a better quality of life for a longer period of time. It could be the first new treatment for ALS in nearly 25 years and the first one to potentially affect muscle function and strength as well as hopefully preserve patient independence.” While...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
optimism could be considered another prerequisite for entry in an unpredictable industry that has surfaced only recently from a twenty-year depression. "The overall return is inadequate for the risk," concedes Kaiser, "yet the very nature of the challenge — the View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a city that was riding View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
the future may be identified as too big to fail. “What’s worse, these firms impose costs on society by creating systemic risks that they don’t have to bear on their balance sheets,” says Moss. “That’s not a situation we want to maintain.”...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
control healthcare costs through better prevention. For instance, in 2014 the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adults over 65 receive a dose of Prevnar 13, a Pfizer product that protects...
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- 09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
the pull of public service. “I am impressed by the number of principled candidates who served in the military and are running for office across the country,” Barcott says, “but I also recognize that these younger veterans often face incredibly View Details
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live, work, or travel in Asia; that's...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
family’s home in Buffalo and then a neighborhood newspaper route, Donaldson went on to bigger things in high school. “Another fellow and I put together a company that did everything from mowing lawns to painting houses,” he recalls. As an...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
stuck with me is that, in the end, a decision must be made. You can't be wishy-washy. He told us to always remember that when you get to the top of a company, decision trees do not grow at high altitude." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "It's terribly...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience,...
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he obtained his federal high school diploma and enrolled at the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
that the new companies’ high labor costs undercut their ability to compete. A second example would be the Australians’ creation of eleven incubator centers to provide financing and advice to information...
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