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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
removal, and they’ve committed a billion dollars to kick-start the growth of companies, get them down the cost curve, and get them innovating, knowing that they’ll get funded up front. What we’re hoping for—and what we just have to assume is going to happen—is that...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
connection to practice—were established during his tenure. He shaped the School in profound and long-lasting ways.” The son of a traveling dentist, Donham (AB 1898, LLB 1901) majored in government at Harvard College, where he graduated...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
Jerry R. Green, using game-theory insights, studies the negotiation process within agencies as he looks for ways that business or government can make the right decision for an organization as a whole while still benefiting individual...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
adjustments should she make to lead remotely, and what tweaks (if any) should be made to her Miami-based management team? The case details the numerous challenges Swan initially faced in launching Nickelodeon Latin America, from winning over skeptics at View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
exposition of his own role in, and the cautionary lessons of, recent history. One such lesson would seem to be that citizens must demand — and government and corporations must create systems that allow for —...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
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What Makes Israel Tick?
Israel is a paradox. It’s small, lacking in natural resources, preoccupied with security, and highly diverse. Yet it generates an outsized number of start-ups, attracts huge sums of venture capital, lures corporations to set up research...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
standpoint. What will HBS do in terms of innovation to provide models and learnings where businesses can ensure everyone can be more secure and prosper and allow for significant wealth creation? —Clayton Chan (MBA 1996) Given the increasing income inequality, the...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
GoodMark from General Mills is just part of his story. His experiences in the corporate world and as a husband, father, philanthropist, and community leader are examples of how to weather storms and thrive, not just in a career but in...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm: Boston-based American Research and...
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- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
social entrepreneurial skills to a corporate board that wants a unique perspective. “I would love to see the day where we don’t have to talk about achievement gap, technical divide, or schools-to-prisons pipelines, because they don’t...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
was arguing that innovation “within the shell of existing corporations offers a much more convenient access to the entrepreneurial functions than existed in the world of owner-managed firms. Many a would-be entrepreneur of today does not...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told
False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Greatest CEOs of All Time." "I was glad to see that the article focused on Johnson & Johnson's values," he observes. Fortune praised Burke for reaffirming the corporate principles and values that later led to his decision in 1982 to pull...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
strengths has been to furnish corporate America with executive leadership at the highest levels. Seeking perspective on this flurry of HBS alumni promotions, the magazine asked Continental Airlines president Gregory Brenneman (MBA 1988)...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical infrastructure are in the private...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets
and T-shirts. Going against the corporate norm is nothing new for Scher, who shunned the usual perks and salary an HBS graduate typically commands in favor of the glamourless, risky, and low-paying job of starting up a company that wasn't...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate...
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