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- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make View Details
- 25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
Less than a year later, new Time Inc. CEO Rich Battista (MBA 1990) asked Wong to add COO to her title. Time was “a touchstone” of Wong’s Long Island childhood, but the newsweekly is just one part of the company’s story, she says. “Time...
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April White
- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold
by everyone watching. Scalability is what also makes Shovio different. In effect, thousands of different individual broadcasts can go on, supporting tens of millions of viewers, all simultaneously. It’s...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
leading a life of significance and purpose that is dedicated to serving others. The book comes alive through the author’s story, of how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment....
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
governmental entities, she is contemplating where she can make her biggest impact. Positions in Washington may be sexier, but it’s the ability to make a View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way...
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- 24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts
It's not a thing that he tolerates. It's a thing of mutual respect, and that makes all the difference in the world. And thirdly, he talks about...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
for help. McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, enlisted his colleagues in the effort, and the group immersed itself in the project. All together, eight different authors contributed cases. Two years,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
model where people can assess the different approaches and collaborate on refining the best solution.” Interactions with a variety of crowds — including students and exec utives in his classrooms, fellow...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Back to School
hunker down and roll up my sleeves and use my experience to make a difference there. It was pretty exciting.” Since 2004, Whitney has been doing the same and more as admissions...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s,...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
conferences, held in a different U.S. city each year, have provided access to an impressive roster of corporate executives and public-sector officials, often drawn from the host city's leading industries and...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
has been waiting tables at Galatoire’s for 40 years, comes over and shakes Prieto’s hand. “Sometimes he’s not here, and it makes a difference because he, you know, he will tell...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
incentives. The question is, what can we learn from the private equity model? When it comes to megabanks, I’m in favor of a smaller board with deep financial expertise, substantial time commitments, and a...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent
the numbers. Inclusiveness is about making the numbers count and effecting a cultural change. Your earlier research resulted in a surprising finding about the View Details