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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurship as an intellectual onion -- you peel back layer after layer, never finding a core idea, and all you do is cry. Another colleague told me that the likelihood of getting promoted would be inversely correlated with the...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
the lengthy rehearsals leading up to a production of Tennessee Williams’s classic play A Streetcar Named Desire. Austin and Devin then draw parallels to the ways in which path-breaking companies, such as Sun Microsystems, promote...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
about the glamour for a minute—the celebrity sports endorsements, team sponsorships, promotions featuring models and freestyle rappers. Is branding your top priority? Building brand is fundamental to what we do. We play at this very...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
the bully pulpit, President Obama should educate the public about the benefits of government partnerships with social enterprise organizations, said Jonathan Greenblatt, cofounder of Ethos Water and lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “Obama should View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future
To achieve that transformation, Lawani believes, investment in the continent is the key. More specifically, Lawani notes, "Any investments we make that promote financial inclusion—especially that help bring folks into the...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
the groundwork for committee recommendations. Among them: enhance outreach efforts to promote the benefits of membership, especially among two groups not currently well represented — Executive Education alumni and recent MBA graduates....
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- 17 Mar 2011
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Make or Break for the USA?
was appointed chairman of the President’s Export Council, charged with advising President Obama on trade and export expansion. (McNerney is interviewed in the current Bulletin.) In 2010, Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) was tapped by the White House to be its in-house point man for...
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- 02 Oct 2012
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Green Pioneer
Professor Rebecca Henderson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Macomber, and Amy Edmondson. For his part, Zofnass views the Program’s achievements as “an example of the good things that HBS is providing in the world, and an excellent example of how HBS alumni can work with...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
delivery truck, a 1920 Ford, still rolls out for promotional events. COURTESY DREYER'S GRAND ICE CREAM While war stories make for great company lore, even in their telling Rogers never loses sight of the two things he credits for making...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
promote greater parental participation in the schools. “This was essentially a start-up effort within the department,” Kete says. “The hiring process was managed not by the districts but at each of the city’s schools, something without...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
45 startups active in this space. The Financial Times points out that femtech startups often have female founders, another significant shift. And it’s not only women in the developed world who benefit; USAID promotes mHealth projects as a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1999
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The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
increases only modestly. The traditional face of the industry has changed, with "full-service" agency-client relationships giving way to cost cutting, streamlining, and consolidation. Outright alternatives to advertising - including options such as publicity, product...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2001
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Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began...
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Elena N. Berg
- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business
were quietly sitting in a semicircular classroom, behind our name cards, looking down on him. He looked professional and confident. Only later did we learn that he was only 37 years old, nine years older than me, and had been promoted to...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Stearns before serving as the CFO for a nationwide health-care company with 24,000 employees. Zweig worked at Time Inc. and Dow Jones and cofounded Salon.com. He was most recently senior editor at the World Business Academy, an international research and education...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in Brazil that View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans
past participants, half said they got more attention from recruiters after completing one of our programs; 53 percent gained more responsibility at work; and 25 percent got a promotion or title change. This will be the first recession...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 1996
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New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
these resources. "Condensing this facet of the job search into a more efficient process, as well as increasing access to resources, will greatly empower students," says Moss. "Recruiters will also be able to tap into the Web to access information about HBS recruiting...
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