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- 01 Mar 2010
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Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Africa, an arts and handicrafts cooperative that empowers women to rise out of poverty by selling their own crafts. Another team created a syllabus for teaching entrepreneurship for Mission Schools International, an organization founded...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing
operate in the Commonwealth,” Porter told some eighty CEOs and leaders of biotech, health-care, government, and academic entities gathered at HBS. He argued that Massachusetts needs a coherent strategy based on a common understanding of...
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- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
like most, failed. But the experience made him curious about the differences between entrepreneurial winners and losers. Having written a book about West Point, he resolved to turn his attention to “the West Point of capitalism”: HBS. With View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
that was looking for "an expert at the intersection of technology, child exploitation, and trafficking," she says. "It was a job description that I would have written for myself." Now back in the Washington area, "I do all of the strategy...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
and strike deals long before the Hebron agreement was signed, and this continues even in the wake of the Har Homa settlement at Jabal Abu Ghneim. Today, business-to-business cooperation and alliances across borders are being pursued...
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- 08 Mar 2017
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Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
Duane Highley (AMP 177, 2009) is president and CEO for the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation. In this interview, he explains how the organization is united behind a common purpose—the concept of energy efficiency as a benefit to...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty
assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, teaches the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior. His research explores issues related to institutional change, innovation, industry and technology evolution, and View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors. Stock pickers say the trading...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game
short-term “fixes” to move up in the rankings rather than focusing on long-term educational quality. As tensions rose, HBS and Wharton declared in 2004 that the media rankings were “meaningless beauty contests,” and they would no longer View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
cooperation from a powerful person. How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers That Plague Even the Best Businesses by Neil Smith (MBA 1984) with Patricia O'Connell (Palgrave Macmillan) The author identifies...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the developing world. They see a new kind of cooperation...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
weighed in on the current economic crisis but quickly moved on to advocate for energy independence and cross-sector cooperation between business and government. The panel featured John Doerr (MBA ’76), Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82), Anand...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100...
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April White
- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
circle to promote innovation, collaboration, and overall behavior change. Henderson explained that businesses attempting to cooperate pushes regulation, which in turn creates incentive for innovation. Hwang offered a call to action:...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
7 Laws of Enough is about a radical kind of change at the personal, organizational, and societal level: a shift from scarcity to sustainable abundance. LaRoche offers seven principles to guide readers on a transformational journey of self-discovery, toward new...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. “The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented,” Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a “thank-you” to the participants for their generous...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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proposes a mindset that will help executives to expand and grow their businesses in the new international economy and describes strategies that come to terms with the realities of globalization and technological change. Mills, the Alfred...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally
As for the cultural issue, Mittal notes that India and Africa have a shared past—in trade relations and, in the diplomatic realm, cooperation during the heyday of the Non-Aligned Movement—that has helped build trust and familiarity. And...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The...
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