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- 01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters
Lailah Thompson-Woode (MBA 2021) with her children, Antonio and Yasmina Woode. Photo courtesy Lailah Thompson-Woode Lailah Thompson-Woode (MBA 2021) with her children, Antonio and Yasmina Woode. Photo courtesy Lailah Thompson-Woode As a middle schooler, Lailah...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
“Value-stream mapping” in the oncology department standardizes the follow-up process with patients. An improvement strategy called “3P” (production, preparation, process), used to radically redesign space according to workflow, eliminates...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial
the line in order to retool his factories for its successor, the Model A. To make the change, he shut down production for months, at a cost of close to $250 million. This chain of events was disastrous for the company because it allowed Chrysler’s Plymouth to gain...
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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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- 18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
chair of the Asia-Pacific Research Center; Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at HBS; Lihong Qin, cofounder and president of NIO; and Paul Yang (MBA 1996), partner and CEO of KKR Greater China. Each...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered
teacher and gentle man, he was always eager to share his insights and wisdom with students and colleagues alike. A mentor to many members of our faculty, Ray inspired us all with the extraordinary quality of his work and his life." Born...
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
they were still getting funding. And I think that Michelle and I, as we as we were going through this process, it became clearer and clearer that even though you were hearing that no one was starting businesses, people actually still were. And so we were sitting in an...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
fellows do, with rare exception, is quickly mainstreamed into the life of the organization,” says Levy. So if the Leadership Fellows program provides benefits that most young, high-powered MBAs crave — access, impact, and leadership opportunities — it also satisfies an...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2020
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Keeping the Beat
I play my drums. I share joy with people, and then I go home. The ability to actually be in quarantine fully alone—in my case, I don’t have roommates and my family doesn’t live in L.A., so I really have been experiencing the discipline of...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand
country, he says, "to see the stores as the customer sees them." Along with legions of price-conscious customers, Stemberg's office superstore concept has also attracted its share of imitators. Within two...
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Paul Michelman
- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
share by offering designer-crafted lingerie at an incredible price with the convenience of online shopping." What have been the best and most challenging parts of starting and running Adore Me? "The best part has been the phenomenal...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
wings that cover four city blocks. Whether it's eking out extra room from unused air shafts, building up, or renovating existing gallery space to make more efficient use of it, construction at the Met is almost nonstop, a fact that is...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
paths to pedal. In 1893, the roads became a cause of concern for the federal government as the U.S. Post Office Department instituted a system of rural free delivery (RFD). Members of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry — an...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
see, or rather what they will experience, will change as the technology evolves. There’s an anecdote IBMers share at Watson’s gleaming new headquarters on Astor Place in the East Village. One day, a boy named Kevin walked into his...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
skeptical Nigerian consumers to eat what its farmers grow. A couple of summers ago, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) saw this dilemma firsthand when she stopped by a small restaurant outside Lagos in southwest Nigeria, not far from the home she View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
perspective, we reached out to alumni who had confronted similar challenges—including the OPEC crisis, the Vietnam War, the Financial Crisis of 2008—and we asked them how they made it through those difficult times. And in this special edition of Skydeck Voices, they...
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- 26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
of Indian import policies, and I knew them backwards and forwards,” recalls Mittal, sitting in his office at the New Delhi headquarters of Bharti Enterprises, the multinational conglomerate he has built over the past 40 years. “Phones...
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Susan Young