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- 01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
Are millennials more concerned about their positive impact on the planet and on society—less focused on money and more on meaning? Is the shift toward a more conscientious generation a true trend or a myth? —Katina Stefanova (MBA 2005)...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice
as much as you can, meet leaders and beneficiaries, and experience the work firsthand as much as is practical. Then assess: For the amount of money you want to donate or the time you want to spend, what kind of results could you create in...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing, and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who we have become—and how we might...
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- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top
a culture in business that does not tolerate “nodders” and “yes men,” neither in management nor in the boardroom. We need a culture that is willing, when necessary, to ask awkward and embarrassing questions and that insists on believable...
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- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
thinking about what GoLite might have been. Last year, they invested personal capital, as well as money raised through a direct public offering, in a new direct-to-consumer outdoor company called My Trail. “It’s GoLite, without the...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age
a conversation organized by the Latin America Research Center, there was significant discussion about how the recent influx of venture capital money will reshape the business environment and how established companies can respond to more...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
the inverse of Tinder. “Catering to women tends to enhance the experience for both parties,” says Kang. In other words, attract women and the men will follow. That’s also the thinking behind Jess, Meet Ken, which—like the website that brought its founders together—is...
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April White
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
power is precisely what caused the short-term fixation that led to the current financial crisis. As stockholder power increased over the last twenty years, our stock markets also became increasingly institutionalized. The real investors are mostly professional View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
such a protected market into a wide-open, hypercompetitive environment is a very difficult process.” Today’s headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy, all the while losing View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
have plenty of money in my pocket and healthy maize for my family to eat," Mustapha said then. "My children are already looking healthier—I can barely lift my eight-year-old. He's the fattest in the village." On a continent more likely to...
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- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of excellence where organizations really know what they are doing, and there is so much mediocrity. Considering how...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: ‘I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.’” Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration and Transformation Management as the Gateway to Success by...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes
statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2003
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New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
community service efforts. Last year, the club gave $25,000 in financial aid to MBA students, provided a full scholarship to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive program at HBS, and funded a summer fellowship for...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock
partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was able to launch the product with seed View Details
- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is...
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