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- 01 Jun 2002
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Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
even as he arranges to receive a shipment of weapons from Iran. (“Arafat has to sign off on everything, down to airline tickets,” Ross said. “There is no way he did not know about the Karine A,” the ship that was seized in January...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
Richard Vietor’s course Business, Government, and the International Economy put many things in context.” Number of state visits since taking office: 57 trips to 49 countries, including Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and 12 trips to the View Details
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Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 20 Nov 2014
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Strengthening America's Public Education System
“playbook” highlighting ways in which business partnerships can help educators lay the policy foundations for innovation, expand programs that boost student outcomes, and reinvigorate the entire education ecosystem to strengthen public...
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- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for...
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Maureen Harmon
- 11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution
MBAs in retail, starting in the bargain basement of Bloomingdale’s. He worked his way up through the ranks of the department store to chairman and CEO, establishing the old, family-owned store as a national luxury brand and the flagship...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: John Doerr
returns based on innovation and intellectual property. It's more than the Internet, more than Silicon Valley. At the moment, we're in a full-fledged tech recession in the United States, with scary implications for the global economy....
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- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
landed a job at Siebel Systems out of HBS, Rawdon was well on her way to building a portfolio of professional experiences that would, she felt, improve her chances of successfully launching a business. Within a few weeks, however, she...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
is, having chicken any way you want it. But there’s no single ad that’s going to convert you. The effectiveness derives from a thousand teeny things that, over time, can get you to believe that this is a brand that I want to spend time...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through war stories. So when I heard...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
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Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone
generous gifts from alumni and friends that enable the School’s efforts to bring faculty with unique perspectives and experiences to the classroom. “Professor Roscini excels as a practitioner — he has found a way to marry his dynamic...
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- 02 May 2016
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Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
structural, I reject the premise that the T can’t balance its budget,” he said in an interview in his office. “I reject the premise that that’s just the way it is. I think we can.” The article also traces Shortsleeve’s career, which began...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
schools. All of them were among the lowest-performing schools in the state of Massachusetts and all of those schools are high-performing today. “I am always thinking about the many ways that we can improve as an organization, and there...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
better-than-average pay. 1993 In response to outrage over executive pay levels, Congress imposes a $1 million cap on tax deductibility of executive compensation, except for performance-based pay. Afterwards, stock option awards explode as a View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Innovation: An Orchestra of One
the Metropolitan Opera. "There's no other technology out there that can get to the core of music-making the way we do," she says. "When I watch and listen to someone use the product, it gives me a glimpse of how we could transform the...
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- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
local bakery. On our way home, he’d point out the copper gutters, slate roofs, and other architectural details that identified ‘an Allegue house.’ That’s really what trained my eye and triggered my enthusiasm for the built environment.”...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
“This is the best job I’ve ever had, and I’ve had a lot of good ones,” O’Neal says, explaining that the rewards, challenges, and people are what keep him most interested. Those challenges include competing for clients in a saturated market, finding View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
The research is part of the HBS US Competitiveness Project, launched in 2010 to assess structural challenges to the US economy and identify ways that leaders in business, labor, government, and academia can work together to address those...
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