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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
climate change, and economic resource nationalism. Readers will learn how risk management is being transformed from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Why were 253 people from all walks of life and parts of the globe pursuing academic work in teams in the Shad Hall fitness center in the middle of January? They were members of the HBS Class of 1997 January cohort. Arriving in the midst...
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- 02 Mar 2015
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To Market, To Market
boosting the quality of life in close to 50 communities. In Nepal, Heifer’s guidance is bringing several villages out of economic distress. “We are 20 months into a new operation of goat farming there,” says Ferrari. “They’ve made $2.5...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon...
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- 25 May 2016
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FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
Rob Beiderman (MBA 2014) Having worked at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) arrived at HBS intent on rounding out his skills and returning to the field of private equity. His life took a sharp turn, however, when it...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
Colombia — I found that people share similar goals: security, a good job, and a better life for their families. What they struggle with is how to get there. Helping these people requires focused assistance in the form of knowledge,...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
people’s “realtime” experiences as they worked on creative projects. What were you looking for, specifically? We wanted to get inside the hearts and minds of knowledge workers to better understand the conditions that support or impede creativity. The people we studied...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
father [Robert K. Merton, a National Medal of Science winner whose work in theoretical sociology at Columbia University has spanned fifty years] has been a strong influence in your life and your career. What...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects requiring creative effort) to fill out a daily electronic diary form that required numerical answers to questions about their work that day, as well as their emotions,...
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- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2004) recently led an effort to save summer internships for Black and Hispanic youth. Bobo is CEO of Project Destined, a nonprofit with a platform that teaches inner-city kids about real estate investment. COVID-19 forced him to move all...
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- 27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing
steeped in decades of Marxism and anti-Western dogma. In 1990, the two men coauthored Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises, a book about US-USSR management systems that itself emerged from an unprecedented joint research View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
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Rebooting the Human Condition
HBS Life Sciences project. More recently, he joined Venter at various stages of Venter's global sailing voyage, collecting marine organisms for their DNA to expand genomic knowledge. Enriquez is the author...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
what separates a practical approach to business decision-making from a more theoretical approach that says, “There is a right answer, and you just have to find it.” Life isn’t like that in my experience. LIGHT: “If there is an overarching...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
teams are supplementing the traditional study groups which, the School felt, too often consisted of like-minded students with similar life and professional experiences. “We’re taking advantage of our fantastic student body to enrich the...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class...
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- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Tanzania, where he was wrapping up perhaps his most ambitious project yet, a five-year tour of Africa, which included visits to all 54 countries on the continent. READ MORE Dan Morrell: Francis, was your interest in travel something you...
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