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- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories View Details
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April White
- 24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
on the Angie’s List “campus”—a collection of buildings the company bought and renovated in Indianapolis— when an employee asks to take a selfie with her. While she has been the name and the face of the company since she cofounded it 22...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
Ideally, the specifics of the No-Fist mechanism would be part of the initial collective bargaining agreement, since agreement on true variable costs of operations could be difficult and to some extent arbitrary. Estimates of real variable...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
work she started in the summer by doing an independent study analyzing data that had been collected and conducting more in-depth interviews with founders. “The insights will be useful both to VCs and female business founders,” she says.
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
remained on advertising. In 1988, she launched a Madison Avenue agency, Masterson Rothberg, which quickly collected its own big clients, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Citicorp, and IBM, as well as a reputation as a hot young agency. But...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business
problems other countries have faced.” “We put a lot of effort into making these workshops more than an academic exercise,” says Ballou-Aares. “Our focus was on how organizations can build partnerships across sectors, learn from one another, and advance the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
Collecting donations from 85 percent of its members, the Class of 2008 now holds the all-time participation record for a graduating class gift. Like their predecessors, the recent graduates chose to support fellowships. “There was a deep...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Serving with Purpose and Pride
do, in the transformational HBS experience. This is an exciting time for us to assume the role of HBS Fund Chairs. In fiscal year 2015, the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation achieved record-breaking success, collecting more than...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2006
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Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
correspondence, and documents that Chandler has generated and collected over more than six decades. At a campus celebration in November, Chandler, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, donated this treasure trove to...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
accepted an offer from McKinsey. Yet the team received overwhelmingly positive verbal feedback from some judges and offers of funding. “We need to do this work now,” is how Fenton sums up the collective realization at the time that they...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
The four professional leagues have varying systems involving collective bargaining agreements, free agency rules, and financial penalties that, to different degrees, set, or act as a "drag" on, upper-level payroll limits and player...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
Michael Ward (MBA ’76) grew up in blue-collar Baltimore. As a kid, he racked balls and collected customers’ money at Club Ritchie Billiards, his father’s pool hall; when he was older, he took summer jobs in an asphalt factory to pay for...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal
First, almost all countries impose domestic taxes on “mobile” corporate income—for example, investment interest or royalties that can easily be shifted from one country to another. Second, many countries still collect taxes on foreign...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Weaving Success in India
Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection at Baker Library. This winter, the HBS Business History Initiative, which launched the project, hosted a conference in India to celebrate the addition of more than a dozen in-depth...
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April White
- 17 Nov 2016
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Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
average Rent the Runway customer is 29 years old—more than two decades younger than the average Neiman Marcus shopper, who is 51, the companies say. Neiman Marcus executives are also looking forward to collecting shopping data to study...
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- 05 May 2022
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Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Ink
and managed to realize this joint value; and each participant must earn a sufficient return to justify the investment. The second element—managing complex collections of people, products, and partners—presents a formidable challenge for...
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- 12 May 2016
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Food Rescue Is on a Mission
his wife, who also attended a leadership course at HBS, in 2014. “Ninety-five percent of what we collect is fresh and nutritious. It’s not just filling the stomach.” In the 10 years since that first delivery, SecondBite has grown to 800...
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Jill Radsken