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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
waterfront. An elevated six-lane highway cuts through the heart of it all. Below the traffic, the narrow and often unpaved streets are crowded with makeshift brick and corrugated tin buildings, home to some 43,000 people. “Most porteños...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden Auditorium on topics that ranged from the state of the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
lover of literature, and author of Leadership Wisdom: Lessons from Poetry, Prose, and Curious Verse “Writing the book is the easy part! Getting your book read or heard in today’s crowded market for content is a real challenge. It is...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
held in a Prague synagogue that had been closed for fifty years - a moving event, she says, that drew an unexpected crowd of more than two hundred people. After graduation, Frankenberg will return to the Post for six months to set it on a...
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
comScore. Apps suck up the majority of that time. In fact, app usage alone comprises 52 percent of total digital media engagement, according to comScore. So how do companies profit from the fact that mobile users are more engaged than ever, albeit in an increasingly...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a...
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Susan Young
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
They are playing songs that everybody knows and the crowd will be singing along.” These students—“probably the best guitarists in the area”—are the next generation of professional musicians, the people who will be invigorating traditional...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know this, View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste...
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- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
into the effects of a crowded office—not to mention the morning commute. "Taking the subway can be so draining," she says. "Is there a way to test how much energy you lose by being around large crowds? And is there a way to be around a...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
company. It wasn't just direct sales of these two products that benefited from the scarcity illusion, however: The heavy crowds drove sales of related products in Apple stores and bookstores during a relatively slow sales month. But there...
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- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
mid-June, Robert and the diversity team presented the new plan in front of all employees, with very specific and bold targets, and answered any questions that the crowd might have. It was very interesting to see how Zalando approaches the...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Arum Kang
contrary to her expectations, a line of children's hair accessories failed to post the sales numbers she had anticipated. "When I got to the floor," Arum says, "I saw that my product was crowded among too many competing...
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- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
parody. Nimisha Patil (MBA 2022) wows the virtual crowd with her beatboxing talent. Weston Ruths (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022) and celebrity judges react to one of the acts.
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- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
paused in describing herself and her role in founding her company, settling on “business strategy customer leadership person.” Barna urged her to call herself a visionary. The crowd of burgeoning entrepreneurs erupted in applause. Hyman...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
experiment, the offer of bonds did not crowd out private-sector savings. Our success in offering bonds at tax time has led a coalition of grassroots organizations, companies, and policy analysts to urge the Treasury Depart-ment to make it...
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- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
staff community projects program that organizes offsite charitable activities, such as Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Velocity rewards employees with $1,000 cash contributions to their charities of choice and peer to peer ‘flash’ awards of Kiva gift cards which...
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Technology
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
relocated from nearby Aldrich Lawn due to construction of the new Hawes Hall classroom building, tradition otherwise prevailed in the form of beautiful weather, wise and humorous speeches, and an enthusiastic crowd of MBA graduates (some...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
growth of our company." Adds Urquhart, "You don't want the guys in the core part of your business to feel like they're working at the wagon wheel factory after the car has been invented." It's important that growth teams recognize this as well, Tushman...
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by Paul Michelman
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
the world, as millions of companies have downloaded their free database and incorporated it into their technology infrastrcture. Only recently has the company focused on monetization. Q: What lessons does Codecademy offer for companies trying to differentiate...
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