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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up
company in 2015, moved it to his home state of Utah, and began assembling a team that embraced what he saw as Traeger’s greatest appeal: “Our products give people the confidence to prepare and share meals with family and friends. Food and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
too long to the mass-production model. Unable to halt declining returns and market share, it lost confidence in itself. That confusion contributed to a serious falloff in capital spending that further undermined productivity. Yet aren't...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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New Releases
of confidence that demonstrates the risks of neglecting customer and employee relationships in the face of large-scale change. Once the world's most admired corporation, IBM stumbled badly in the early 1990s. The company, now making a...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
campaign's “quiet” or nucleus fund stage, so I am confident we can do it. Harvard Business School has a wonderful legacy and very generous alumni. Over the years we have developed an endowment of about $1.3 billion. But there are two key...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging...
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- 24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
been able to put together solid answers to just about every question we've heard, so there are very few times I get stumped. Having all of those answers gives skeptics the confidence to at least listen to the full story. If I do get...
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- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Letters to the Editor
(suite mates). He kind of volunteered as a mentor and even then showed skill in giving guidance, which was quite useful and readily acceptable. He was confident without being arrogant; interested without being meddlesome; loyal, without...
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- 15 Nov 2011
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750 World Wonders and counting
my briefcase in one hand and my camera in the other,” he recalls. “After I did the AMP program, my ambitions really came to the fore. It was a watershed time for building confidence and creating big ideas for the future.” For Main Wilson,...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
analysis," Bhide smiles. Another is what he calls "smart arrogance" - "the confidence to believe in your ideas combined with the sense to bail out quickly if new information points in that direction." Yet a third characteristic of a...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
“gave me the confidence to transfer my skills to the private sector. What’s at stake may be different, but I hope the impact will be just as great.” She saw earning an MBA as the “bridge between being a leader in the military and being a...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
met in PMD, from all over the world, gave me the confidence to go international; after I finished the program, I wrote the business plan for AEW to take our business outside North America. My partners said, ‘Okay, smart guy, go do it.’”...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
naive confidence that I’d be successful, so I just put one foot in front of the other, built my network, and made the best long-term decisions I could.” “I always had the naive confidence that I’d be...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief
Space explains how traditional companies can adapt their bricks-and-mortar legacies to complement and bolster their online ventures. It is a hands-on guide that will give leaders the insight and confidence to operate successfully in both...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Philanthropies: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ I think you need to have a vision of how you can make a real difference, and have confidence that it’s going to work. And if it’s not working, be willing to adjust it, change...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
efficacy. Most important of all, they showed farmers that Notore and its products could be trusted. Earning confidence among trading partners is a slow but essential enterprise in professionalizing agriculture, especially in a country...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go
funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and the Brazilian venture fund Base Partners. In addition to developing its own brands, Foodology has begun cultivating partnerships with established industry players such as Amor Perfecto, a leading Colombian coffee roaster. And...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
stories of playing shell games with credit cards, using one to pay off another when the money wasn’t coming in. Where successful entrepreneurs were able to execute, though, it seemed to include a combination of two things: first, balancing View Details