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- 25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
way to class each day, discussing coursework and cases in their spare moments. After working as a teaching fellow at HBS for a year and delivering her second son, Marcelo joined Upromise, a start-up that helps families save money for...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
also working on ways to help nonprofits. Currently reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Nonzero, a book about applying game theory to the advancement of society. Hope for your kids That they grow up to fulfill their own...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
spectacular corporate failure in modern capitalism. Was this an aberration?” he questioned. “Can we draw lessons that can be applied to other corporations? What are the implications for our research and teaching?” Dean Kim B. Clark also spoke at the beginning of the...
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- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
they are way out of whack with the market norm—and when the firm makes it clear that its own markup is much higher than what competitors charge. For instance, if a company charges $30 for a T-shirt, but emphasizes that competitors are...
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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
reviewing the company's marketing strategy for charge and credit cards in the United States. A variety of growth options exists for students to consider, including further penetration of existing markets and the opening of new markets....
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
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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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- 01 Dec 2008
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Where Are They Now?
director of the Brady Commission, a task force created to examine ways to avoid another stock market crash like Black Monday on October 24. “It was hard not to say yes,” he recalls. After the commission completed its report, Glauber...
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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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From Das’s Desk
A central tenet of lifelong learning today is “anywhere, anytime.” The more learning opportunities can be delivered whenever you—the user—want them, wherever you are, the way you want them, and when you most need them, the more valuable...
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PJ Meyer
it's shaping the way I think so that I can be a more effective as a manager. The case method is a subversive form of instilling business experience!" PJ has also been able to acquire management experience through extracurricular...
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Leila Meliani
administrators to "improve the way women and underrepresented minorities experience HBS." Together, they work on issues such as diversifying the case curriculum and establishing gender equity policies. "I really appreciate...
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Carlos Coto
Carlos Coto turned a bank-teller position into a life-changing opportunity. To work his way through college, he found employment at HSBC, a niche bank that serves high net-worth clientele. In his second year at the bank, Coto became...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
remote-work models for years, focusing on what he calls “the geography of work” in organizations as diverse as the US Patent Office and open-source collaboration platform GitLab. In this conversation, he and Chandrasekar discuss the strategic benefits of remote work,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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It’s the Economy
ambitious $825 billion economic stimulus package was working its way through Congress. The rapidly deteriorating jobs picture heightened the sense of urgency to act. Employers shed more jobs in 2008 than in any year since 1945. Against...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
opportunity, marshaling of required resources, exploitation of opportunity, and harvesting." In other words, "entrepreneurship" is a way of managing that occurs in organizations large or small, youthful or experienced. Underpinning...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
illustration by Cathy Gendron When the pressure is on and the going gets messy, Swanee Hunt, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, can usually find a diplomatic way to discuss just about any situation. But for Hunt, a parent of three, and...
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- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical...
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Casey Gerald
through three hundred business situations with imperfect information and severe time constraints. You have to develop a framework for a vision, a way to articulate that vision, and the humility to accept ninety different opinions...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
raised the issue of restitution for investors who had been defrauded and subjected to misrepresentations. "We have apparently decided that the issues of restitution ... should primarily be left to the trial lawyers of the United...
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Henry McCance
unacceptable,” as he puts it, that so little progress had been made to treat a dreaded disease identified more than a century ago and now afflicting five million people in the United States. Friend and fellow venture capital investor...
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