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Kathryn Andersen
supply it. Even if you go to bed thinking about a problem, and wake up still thinking about it, you're not guaranteed to solve it. And changing the way Americans eat is no small task. Generation by generation? City by city? Kitchen by...
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Jennifer Tom
still cannot move faster than a speeding bullet or leap even short buildings in a single bound, I have found my own way of fighting that will help save Earth from disaster. Wielding my business education and health policy background, I...
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Jocelyne Moyer
was to guarantee a secure job, with a secure future. To follow my passion, do what I love, find my calling – these were follies of the foolish. I was too smart to fall for those traps. Fear was suffocating me. But as I made my way in the...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to graduating MBAs who work for a...
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Deborah Blagg
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Kimball Thomas
this is something special.” Kimball’s initial impressions have been confirmed by his experiences at the school. “HBS provides a confrontation with issues, a challenge to your way of thinking whatever your background,” he says. “In...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Alloways Creek, a region that makes it clear why New Jersey is called the Garden State. She named it Neptune, after the investment business she and a partner ran in New York City. At first it was just a weekend getaway, but then she found herself staying an extra day....
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
to be saying on her way out the door, ‘Well, I know I got fired, but at least now we have a plant in Elmira that provides US capacity for products at 50 percent higher cost per unit than what’s available on...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
instant-message chat volumes (-8.7 percent).” Companies may want to consider locating their knowledge-worker team members strategically. “Our results suggest that employees engaged in knowledge co-production place a strong premium on synchronous communication, and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Thoren believes there doesn’t need to be a divide between for-profit and nonprofit missions. In December 2020, she joined outdoor-clothing brand Patagonia as director of Environmental Action and Initiatives, EMEA, a position that unites...
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April White
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Paul Yeh
automotive sector. I want to develop greener, safer, cheaper, and more exciting vehicles. I want to transform the way consumers shop for and buy their cars. I want to change people's driving behavior to minimize their impact on the...
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Janice Lin
"favorite aunt." I'll find a way to make senior care desirable and not negative. I'll live and abide by "no fear." Most importantly, I'll burn as brightly as possible for a short period of time, but impart every bit of...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
New Line of Inquiry By: Moss, David, Anant Thaker, and Howard Rudnick Abstract—The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing...
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Anna Secino
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for...
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- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
PeopleImages Sale! Even the word is enough to send a flutter through the hearts of certain shoppers, who salivate in anticipation of scoring a discount off a product’s original price. Few consumers stop to think, however, that the only View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
involving federal authorities. Process: Structure documentation, processes, and communications to effectively support investigations when errors occur. Ensure there is a way to capture, retain, and document decisions and actions with a...
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by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
Cup team, Baumgartner saw his ice time as a springboard to higher education. “I wanted to avoid spending a lifetime working in the mine,” says the fit, 36-year-old, who has been a welcome addition to the B-School Blades hockey team. “I just viewed hockey as a View Details
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Television, Rochester, MN “Redefining Health Care is a must read for anyone interested in health policy. The authors have identified the single most important problem in health care and it is a problem health economists tend to routinely ignore. To wit: We don't bundle...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
bestseller, and in 2014, became a major motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg. Matt Brady (MBA 2016) lived this mission. As a pilot in an elite Army helicopter unit called the Night Stalkers, he was tasked with delivering Luttrell and...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Agent of change
Working in law enforcement made Skovran notice inefficiencies in the way the government approached societal problems. "I became interested in finding more effective ways to reduce crime and violence," she...
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