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- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
our spare time so we kill it." I assume he means that we engineer our lives so that we are always busy, thereby avoiding spare time. Aurin Bhattacharjee admonishes us to "moderate our ways and appreciate the passage of time for...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
being the cost of it. That was the inspiration." Since its founding, BlueOak has been developing plans for mini-refineries that use proven, capital-efficient refining processes to extract precious metals and rare earth elements from...
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- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
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by Bill George
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
controllers, growers, or cycle managers on the basis of their line management experience at GE. Using S&P industry reports, we then coded the strategic challenges facing each new company the former GE managers were hired into. Nine of...
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- 29 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business
latest round of financing The RC has given me the knowledge to critically examine anyone of these major business stories and think about the root causes, implications, execution, and risks. Take for example McDonald's rolling out all day breakfast offering. View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
funds can replace taxes, they can be beneficial to a citizenry. There seemed to be little concern among respondents that states will use their sovereign funds to foster their political interests. Russell Widener comments that "I...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
pre-vet course of study at Texas A&M but was lured to the booming oil and gas industry after graduation. He applied to HBS a few years later and went to Wall Street after leaving Soldiers Field. Anderson worked for Donaldson, Lufkin &...
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- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from its diminished role in the post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world’s reserves of natural gas, Russia was judged to be View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
infrastructure, and team. So many of my conversations with Reese, Lauren [Neustadter, Head of Film and Television] and other members of our team focus on: Is this the highest and best use of our time? We’ve found a model of collaborative...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
previous World Cup and Olympic hosts. But the country's lack of transportation alternatives—particularly a useful rail system—has also put an extraordinarily heavy burden on the airlines to move fans to disparate match sites. "I don't...
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- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices
device-specific representation of each device on the network, and our generalizable machine learning approach and software-based installation allows us to scale to all legacy and modern devices.” For Breen, the biggest challenges of...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
look to us as a source of information to help them with that. They can be seventy years old and care about how they look, or they can be seventeen. How have your product lines evolved? We started with a core brand definition of providing...
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- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
industries ranging from oil refining to scientific instruments. But how do user innovations take place? How do they get to market? HBS professor Carliss Baldwin discusses her research on the rodeo kayak industry to understand the world of...
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- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
the hot career path at the time. “I loved the intellectual challenge in working with really smart people,” recalls Weinstein. “What I didn’t enjoy very much was that I didn’t actually care whether or not Shell Oil of Canada made an extra...
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Maureen Harmon
- Web
Art Nature Business
innovative industry, and can also be a model for 21st-century entrepreneurs investing in new technologies and experimenting with novel ways to use natural resources. The Tudor Company Records are held in Baker Library Special Collections....
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- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
correct some of the biggest challenges today, like climate change, oil dependence, and life-threatening diseases. Outsourcing by itself is not evil, Shih says. In many cases it makes perfect sense, but "we need to be more thoughtful...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
brings to his new role a broad expertise in global business practice, especially in the area of international marketing. Working with the Global Initiative's executive director Kathleen Cooke Ryan and a steering group of senior faculty,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again...
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