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- 25 Apr 2014
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Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
technique to treat brain aneurysms, and Spinal Modulation, a company with a new technique for blocking chronic pain. "In my lifetime, we will apply those insights in ways that will positively impact tens of millions of people," says...
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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
can managers learn from the outcome of the Canada/Bombardier vs. Brazil/Embraer dispute about the most effective way to handle these types of situations? A: The dollar value of the Brazilian sanctions authorized by the WTO was far lower...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
asked in his case, would this be a good way to return to the original vision of creating synergies throughout the Lincoln Center campus? Readers of the case ponder along with the protagonist on whether to do some or all of the options,...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
kiosks stationed here and there; almost every one I pass has a student logged on. I find my way to my first class, Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee’s Operating an E-Business. Right off the bat, McAfee sets up a presentation on a...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Forestalling Terror
crimes after they occur. They are phenomenal at that, as in the way they tracked down the Lockerbie perpetrators, to cite one case. That’s a very different role from preventing terrorist attacks before they occur, which is their top...
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Venus Miller
Washington D.C. to rejoin her husband, Aysa Miller, and work in the strategy and operations practice with Deloitte. "HBS has shown me that there are many different forms of leadership and different ways to apply our own...
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Jacob Meiner
Jacob Meiner has always been attracted to the difficult. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania he initially studied Near East languages and civilizations. "It intrigued me from an interdisciplinary perspective, as a View Details
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Colt Stander
same day as my surgical tool for opening skulls.” Colt’s interest in designing cars attracted him to industrial design. “But I quickly learned that cars weren’t for me,” he says. “I became more interested in the problem-solving aspects of design rather than in pure...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
value. Hence, life settlements allow policyholders to capture a much larger, if not full, share of their contracts’ economic value. In this Industry Note, we lay out the basic structure of the market, the important players, and the basic economics. We also go into the...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
difference. Our community engagement efforts are going to be critical to our ability to succeed. We're also continuing to partner with staff affinity groups and student affinity clubs, and we're going to plug in with faculty in ways that...
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- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
made me sign. This experience got me thinking that my employment opportunities had been geographically circumscribed by differences in the enforcement of noncompetes between states—that with my highly specialized skills, the only way I...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
fashion, our management nursed the money through the worst of the downturn. The story doesn't end there. On our way out we were introduced to the management and directors of the startup that had the room reserved after us, kozmo.com....
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- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
The revolution started several years ago with Khan Academy, an innovative online portal of educational videos and tutorials that has attracted millions of followers and showed educators a thing or two about the way today’s children learn....
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
development firm that matches qualified professionals—women and men—who want flexible schedules with businesses in need of high-caliber services. “It doesn't make a lot of sense to lose talent just because we aren't having conversations with employees about the best...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Athens and is featured in boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. More importantly, Mareva says, HBS is where she and Kyriakos met in 1994, at a reception for Greek students at the now-bygone...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has come a long View Details
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Matt Segneri
charities to support. "We provided a framework for discussion — a way to show section mates how to have a real impact with the money they're raising." From NO to DC On the HBS New Orleans IXP, Matt led a team of five people who...
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Jeff Nelson
When he joined the single-family project-development group, he entered the eye of the storm. “I was in the division addressing the core problem – fixing the way mortgages originated in the first place.” With his colleagues, Jeff developed...
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