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- 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I cut wasteful expenses, but I make continuous investments in...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
successful entrepreneurs talked about with the authors. Learning to handle emotions, manage uncertainty, cope with technical complexity, and build long-term relationships are equally or even more important. This book spotlights eight big...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by relentlessly pursuing and pushing hit singles instead of...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
institution and doctor. Less than two years after launching its first marketplace, Nomad Health is working with 20,000 clinicians and 600 health care facilities in 12 states. The Question: Nomad Health’s long-term goal is to work in all...
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April White
- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
continuity. "A smooth transition will be accomplished," the veteran government official vowed. Hui noted that the long-term future looks bright as well: trade with the mainland, now Hong Kong's biggest trading partner, has been growing at...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
he says. “We can reach out to our networks and engage people to work for fair elections, open primaries, and more. We are fiercely nonpartisan and never talk about candidates,” says Otten. “We are strictly about making elections work fairly for everyone.” Kaplan says...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of...
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- 17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
aside from the technology we’re building, we get to have actual students on campus. So even though, like most companies, we are working toward big, long-term goals, we get amazing victories, day to day, when students walk into our office...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans
1991) @SteverRobbins: Too much online learning could kill revenue model for colleges, reducing long-term supply of knowledge creators. In short term, however, online learning is a potential huge boost to educated populace, IF learners...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
seem to fix. "The problems facing Nigeria and West Africa are too great for the public sector or traditional NGOs to solve," says Masha. "The private sector can make a much more concerted, long-term effort to address these issues while...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led since earning his MBA, Klarman...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
better cope with risk and uncertainty and increase collaborative problem-solving and sharing of knowledge throughout the sector. Pisano proposes more vertical integration, fewer but closer long-term collaborations, and quasi-public...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game
short-term “fixes” to move up in the rankings rather than focusing on long-term educational quality. As tensions rose, HBS and Wharton declared in 2004 that the media rankings were “meaningless beauty contests,” and they would no longer...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Another grassroots initiative, the 91101 Group, was organized by Daniel F. Curran (MBA '00), a research associate at HBS, along with colleagues and classmates from HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. The group set up a Web site that they will use to raise money...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
differentially true for groups that are underrepresented in our applicant pool—those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, underrepresented minorities, and women. This is one reason why we have a focus on financial accessibility and affordability. The View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
scenario—that there will be a few people who make a lot of money and leave behind a mess for others to clean up. And the main thing is that the expectations of a long-term production boost are unfounded. That goes for the Bakken and this...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
which is often very different from what that person wants. You have been credited with 750 marriages. Is your long-term success rate better than the national average? I don’t have quantitative data on my divorce rate, but I’m going to...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab companies and help the region...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art
first in finance where you are proposing transactions, acquisitions, private placements, public offerings, etc, to corporate clients. It's a process of long-term relationship building, but it is first a process of upfront...
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