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- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets....
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Books: Brand New
listening to customers by means of ongoing two-way communication; and building organizational capabilities that delivered on the promise of their brands. From Wedgwood’s making of a large market for his...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Slam Dunk
Stephen Pagliuca (MBA '82), H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), and Grousbeck's son, Wycliffe, are the proud owners of a Boston institution: the city's NBA team, the Boston Celtics. Pagliuca, managing director at Bain Capital, Grousbeck père,...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
legacy of leadership beyond the scope of the School's MBA and Executive Education Programs. "The idea is to reach out to alumni and to the world at large, deploying innovative technology to leverage traditional and nontraditional learning," says Price, who was...
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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
the carbon capture to farmers, but couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. The reason: There wasn’t a profit motive. “But then I met these organic farmers, and the bottom...
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- 26 May 2015
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Exploring tax policy and our quality of life
For Professor Matthew Weinzierl, tax policy is about much more than dollars and cents. The questions of why we tax and what we tax, and similar policy decisions, offer a window on our society. “People don’t always understand the technical...
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- 21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training,...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
entrepreneurs to think about those dynamics as they build their board. Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, for instance, have a very different incentive for exit than some of the more traditional VC firms. They...
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April White
- 25 Aug 2022
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Ready for Departure
news? Probably another blip. Changi also implemented a host of new health and safety measures to make the various touch points throughout the airport less touchy. Changi also implemented View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
broadcaster in the country. In 1972, L. Lowry Mays (MBA '62) bought a Texas radio station for $175,000; today his Clear Channel Communications owns 18 TV stations and 140 radio stations across the country. HBS alumni would View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
make the next crisis easier to manage but also to ensure that the ongoing operation of our health care system is improved in a fundamental manner.” Leveraging Technology to Gain an Edge In View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
I was scared to death that everyone would be smarter than me. And they were. On the first day of class we were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene....
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- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
of Charleston, South Carolina, dated March 11, 1856. (Frequent abbreviations are used in the reports; subsequent quotes have been translated for clarity.) Three months later: “In business a long time; doing View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
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To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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The Next Lessons
on the eve of graduation. “Khan Academy started, for the most part, with me producing content. As it grew—our whole team working with others to write exercises and simulation software—we started to realize, hey, this is a pretty good...
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William Weber
- 07 Mar 2019
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Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
the company’s name and philosophy. “The name Intelligent Mexican Marketing was [developed] because we wanted to challenge how Latinos were perceived in the United States. Our objective as a company was to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Home from the Sea
much as possible, and for him I think the Vendée Globe is a question of doing it right and making it to the finish.” Doing it right and finishing the job, no matter what the adversity. That’s Rich Wilson....
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Taking the Lead in Support of HBS
matter of thinking it through, making a plan, and then executing. Annual giving to HBS is a unique op-portunity for graduates who work for companies with matching gift programs...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Books
biases that make predictable what otherwise so commonly emerge as surprises in business and society. They outline six danger signals that suggest when a predictable surprise may be imminent and provide View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
selection ceremony held at the French National Assembly. Photos by Guillaume Esteve Mannai says the VDA has a simple goal: “To shed light on successful and impactful local business leaders in France, who embody, perfectly, the HBS value...
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Margie Kelley