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- 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit
what happens behind the scenes, such as better work processes, internal communication, collaboration, and renewed creativity that fuels innovative problem-solving. A key reason why BCG or any company would be interested in this research...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Ed Fuller (AMP 101, 1987) and Gary Grossman Beaufort Books When a bomb rips the façade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
of the field, six of the unit's faculty are also affiliated with other units, including finance, organizational behavior, technology and operations management, and ethics. MBA courses having entrepreneurial content include Entrepreneurial...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the...
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- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
about 50) receives an international travel allowance to encourage personal exploration beyond the dedicated trips taken to Tea destinations. “I know that when I travel, and especially when I take my family traveling, it’s a transformative...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
long-term solutions to fundamental problems. In Haiti, a recycling program built to reduce flooding from clogged canals has helped to reduce cholera transmissions and create sustainable jobs. In Brazil, a business consortium is providing a group of proven nonprofits...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
is that it is explicitly about race, and the magnitude of the social debt is very large in dollar terms.” In the latest of his several books, Lift the Hood, due out this year, America addresses the problems of unjust enrichment and of View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
because they have a long-term focus to serve long-term social problems. "We owe a lot to nonprofit organizations," she said. "The Sierra Club, for example, has been an effective voice for the environmental movement, and the International...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
across ABP Media's channels, Karan Kapur (MBA 2015) provided hundreds and thousands of meals through his international FnB venture K Corp, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) enabled the mission to be displayed in millions of smartphones through...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Horn of Africa.) “Kenya” adorns bags of single-origin beans shipped around the world, but that country’s residents drink less than 1 percent as much coffee per capita as world-leading Finland’s, according to statistics collected by the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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A United Front
Ferguson: Managing Manchester United." The flip side of Ferguson's acclaim, of course, is that he and his team have a large target on their backs. When the case opens on the 2012–2013 season, the club is facing a well-funded, vigorous challenge by Manchester City,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
ago, Nohria made advancement of the School’s international strategy one of his top five priorities. “Today, HBS would be derelict in its mission if it weren’t preparing the leaders it educates to succeed in a global context,” says Nohria....
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
success. "There's some truth to that," says Jay Boberg, president of MCA Records. "In fact, part of the challenge I face at MCA is bringing more of an artist-development sensibility to the label." Jay Boberg When he was just 21, Jay Boberg (113th AMP) created View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
always positioned itself as a fun toy that helps children develop, and it enjoys a healthy relationship with schools and educators throughout the world. About 90 percent of U.S. preschools and kindergartens use LEGO products. Its Learning Institute comprises an View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
eliminates a core source of international instability, and replaces expensive, tax-supported aid with productive, locally generated economic activities. Henry L. Kotkins Jr. (MBA ’72) Seattle, WA Poor Taste? Did the juxtaposition of the...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
the new Chinese economy. (photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) Do the Chinese business leaders you talk with offer opinions about what should be done to reverse the current downturn? There’s a lot of interest in finding ways to develop internal...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over 30 languages—and Tokyo was...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel Partners. “One of the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
electricity grid are associated with carbon emissions. But an electric vehicle is less carbon intense (in terms of pounds of CO2 per mile) than a 25-mile-per-gallon internal combustion engine vehicle—even if the electricity grid that...
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