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- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you can have a direct and real impact on building a person's self-esteem. That insight impacts the way...
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- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
actual cost. Possible Solutions Reinhardt shifted the conversation to discussing solutions, such as assigning property rights to water. "In a way the history of Europeans and Asians on this continent has been the story of...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
business we are always looking for ways to change the game in our favor,” says Parker. “HBS was absolutely a way to change the game personally and professionally. The experience gave me confidence to take...
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- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
col¬leagues would be able to tell the difference. After quite a bit of negotiating, Greg was ready to make a purchase: a copy of a Panerai Luminor Power Reserve men's watch, which typically sells for about $7,000 in the United States....
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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
research grant for the purpose of identifying the error rate, this idea was decidedly unwelcome. My interpretation of the data suggested that we might not be finding the definitive error rate—and further errors might be systematically underreported in certain View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Portrait Project
Robert Carpenter
called me to a small work and my brother to a great one, O Lord forgive.” The prayer is a reminder that I live my one life in a community of people striving in their own wild and precious ways – that my peers have their own dreams, many...
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Lincoln Alabaster
Family and film. These are the ways I will ensure that the legacy of R. Lincoln Alabaster lives on long after I'm gone. I desire to someday be the type of husband who is devoted to his wife, and pray to be the kind of father whose kids...
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- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
As a child in the sun-bathed cityscape of West Los Angeles, I grew up amongst the gifts of a loving family, supportive schools, and a tranquil middle-class neighborhood. From L.A., I found my way to UC Berkeley and then to San Francisco,...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are...
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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's...
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by Robert Simons
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Longhorn is ever successful, the pressure that will place on Apple will be enormous because Apple simply will not have the resources with 8 million active users to ever be able to support it. Q: In the hardware and PC operating system business, then, is there a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Trustees' properties to work to support themselves. Why? Some of our properties are available for weddings and other events, and we now operate two bed-and-breakfasts. Even if these operations only broke even, we would come out ahead, because using these historic...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
For example, Frey Farms used school buses ($1,500 each) instead of tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart,...
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Monica Sharma
inquire into all things. I will spend my life continuing to be inventive and inspired by the mysteries of the world. In the end, the best way to predict the future is to build it yourself.
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Lyn Baranowski
At age 15, I spent the summer as an exchange student in France, and the world of a small-town girl from New Hampshire opened up. The experience catalyzed in me a fundamental belief in the importance of building relationships across existing borders as a View Details
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Elizabeth Bruyere
will play. But I will be there, fighting for health care in the same way that my father fought for his life: with courage, tenacity, and unrelenting optimism.
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Clint Lawrence
- to never accept the status quo, to believe that the only way to grow is to take the plunge, even in the face of extreme uncertainty, to challenge what others say can't be done. This takes courage,...
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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
for ideal pay ratios. Moreover, data from 16 countries reveals that people dramatically underestimate actual pay inequality. In the United States-where underestimation was particularly pronounced-the actual pay ratio of CEOs to unskilled...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the Lewis and Clark Trail combined with two subsequent annual rides — helped raise almost $500,000 for Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Next summer he plans to complete the U.S.A. Four Corners Tour, a two-month, 14,000-mile odyssey that follows the outer perimeter of...
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