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- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
Progress The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Herzlinger was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was eight. She earned a degree in economics from MIT, spent time in Washington as an...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(PMD 41, 1981) (F.X. Biasi Jr.) This novel tells a story of illegal drugs, murder, and a 150-year-old rivalry between two of North Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
people of Texas first learned of their freedom. That became a day of remembrance and celebration. In this book, readers learn about the events that led to emancipation and why it took so long for the enslaved people in Texas to hear the news. The first Juneteenth began...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
about where we are, who we are, and what happened yesterday. We discuss each guest's enjoyment levels: Did George and Mary have a good time yesterday? Did they have a life experience? What are George and Mary planning to do today?"...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
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Keeping the Beat
programming vocals, writing the synth line, deciding what the bass line is going to be. I think there’s enormous discipline, you know, beyond the fact that I’ve been able to feel safe in this time, that my family is safe. It’s a luxury to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
or the leader of the meeting, their charisma and their energy just doesn't translate over video. So I actually am not such a fan of video meetings. They're not going to go away entirely for sure. But I think Zoom is going to be plan B,...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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New Releases
player and athlete who was one of the first in his family and community to attend college, McArthur channeled his athletic drive into academics at HBS, earning an MBA in 1959 and a DBA in 1963. He then joined the faculty and gradually...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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sector, and the influence of networks and social capital on accessing human and financial capital. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the venture capital industry and raises questions about why women have so much difficulty getting their business View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)...
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- 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
stories of the families we work with are not unlike my story,” says Owusu-Kesse. The son of Ghanaian immigrants, he was raised by his mother in a distressed Worcester, Massachusetts, neighborhood. “I experienced firsthand the sacrifices...
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Deborah Blagg
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world....
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- 09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
in his path. Langford, 65, is far too genteel and affable for that, as anyone who knows him will tell you—and plenty of people in Georgia know Jim Langford (MBA 1984), whose family roots in the state stretch back to 1853. But those same...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including Daniels's own -- you'd never know...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses...
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Thomas Frick