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- 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery
to the plans. “The biggest barrier—and this sounds crazy—is the lack of a billing code for contingency management,” Gastfriend says. “If there’s not a billing code for something, health care providers won’t do it, because they can’t get reimbursed.” Slowly, DynamiCare...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
breaks down safely in the environment. Enter Full Cycle Bioplastics, a California startup that has found a cost-effective way to produce mass quantities of PHA, which is an eco-friendly alternative to plastic that harmlessly degrades on...
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- 08 Apr 2021
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Real Talk
of the day, you leave with my best wishes. But I need one day, and I need you guys to just open up your mind and your heart to what I have to say, and that’s all.’” The management team stayed, and Henderson managed to break through by...
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- 18 Nov 2013
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Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated...
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- 16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption
the Silicon Valley model of moving fast and breaking things—an early Mark Zuckerberg mantra—just doesn’t work. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Remember what Alex said in episode one about how these challenges shape frontier...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
Search, and eighty people turned out for a signing at a bookstore in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. During the Q&A part of his talk, we heard stories that can break your heart. One man said he’d been out of work for a year; another had...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
madeleine’s iconic shell shape and, if they’re baked properly, the bosse that pops up to create an enticing little bump. Viana points out the bosse as he breaks off a small piece of golden-colored sponge. “I taste them like wine,” he...
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton,...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
colleagues partnered with 1,222 hairdressers in 200 neighborhoods in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, breaking them into four groups: two groups that received different cuts of condom sales, one that received wall charts and stickers to...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
be rebuilt. This was about healing. The city needed its music back. The audience, most in tears, gave the orchestra a five-minute ovation before the first note was played. And as the last chord of Ravel’s Boléro hung in the air, some refrained from clapping, choosing...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
He needed the kind of break that the typical American vacation week couldn’t offer. So in 2017, he took a sabbatical—which included a ten-day silent meditation retreat followed by a six-week walking pilgrimage in Japan. The experience was...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
a joint venture five years ago in Xinjiang province. Yang and her colleagues also turn their attention to myriad other details-from making sure the fabric in the collar of a golf shirt still looks crisp on the eighteenth green to creating a button that won't View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit
MIT, she grew deeply interested in “spending long periods of time living with and living like” the people she studied, “trying to understand the world from their perspectives.” In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
students by name by the time the required curriculum began. ° Snow depth during the first two days of Foundations set an all-time record of 30 inches at Logan Airport, breaking the 29-inch record set by the blizzard of '78. ° Orientation...
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- 05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
Chapman Professor of Business Administration. His research has confirmed what many senior-level women already know: governing boards often rely on networks of predominantly male executives to fill openings. “Women can’t break into those...
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Margaret Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
’01) (Harvard Business Review Press) Anthony draws on stories from his research and fieldwork with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. He presents a simple definition of innovation, breaks down the essential...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
leader and a better human being for embracing the pain of this experience. Barry Rowan (MBA 1983) EVP & CFO, Cool Planet Energy Systems Seventh time’s a charm When I left HBS my plan was to work for a small company for a couple of years and then start a small...
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- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
grad Seth Moulton (MBA 2011) of Massachusetts and Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin. “They validated the need for an organization that could provide strategic national support for next-generation veterans and help them win, and for the type of coalition that can...
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Ralph Ranalli