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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
the foundation of change. The idea behind Millennium Villages is to bring a holistic approach to development, targeting agriculture, education, health, and infrastructure. We’re leveraging the knowledge and expertise of local clusters of experts and raising funds so...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told
it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. How could these...
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- 25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners
basic ventilators, which are around 1 percent of the cost of high-end computerized ventilators. They’re now being tested in a hospital in Egypt. Our most significant efforts in the global battle against the pandemic are possible thanks to...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
in three two-week modules. The first two modules take place in Johannesburg and the third in Boston. Between sessions, participants return to their workplaces to test out the new theories and practices they've learned. With participants...
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Morgan Baker
- 30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
trying to do a mediocre job for everybody? No. You get five I get five? I want something where you get eight and I get eight. So don't give me mediocre is balanced. I won't accept it. Morrell: Did you feel the pressure of delivering these statements at all? Did you...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
test my limits and spark my sense of purpose. When the Peace Corps turned me down (it typically requires a college degree), I moved to Latin America. The experience blew open my sense of self and what I wanted to do with my life. Ever...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
everywhere, those in small towns and rural communities must be nimble and have a high tolerance for failure. HBS senior fellow Allen Grossman, who worked with Marietta at PELP, sees social enterprises like Pine Mountain as laboratories for experimentation, as does...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
defenses aren’t just a test of their mettle or skills—they’re a drain on time and money. “Bad guys have economics, too. They can’t spend all day trying to burn your house down,” says Rothrock. “They’ll go to the next house and try to burn...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
promoting the sector at home and abroad. The following year, the country’s Financial Conduct Authority built a “regulatory sandbox” where fintech startups can test new products and services on real consumers without fear of regulatory...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the January Term, they’ll travel to a company abroad to View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
would any of you like to test it? And we’ll literally have hundreds of thousands of people that will raise their hand and volunteer to be our virtual QA team. And what that means is that when we get ready to roll a feature out to our...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
are an entrepreneur who is selling ideas that have been tested through rigorous research,” says Akinola, who teaches the first-year MBA course on leadership development. “To me, it’s just as stressful as being in a corporation, but the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this understanding back into our...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
employs an enviable tactic: "I eat," he laughs. "I'm always nibbling and testing - my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie." No Typical Days An excellent set of taste buds is one obvious asset in the food business, but other qualities...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
business,” says Cunningham. CMO Morgan Flatley says the good narratives about the business are there. “I think we just need to dust them off and show them in a new light to our consumers.” That April, Cunningham and her team first tested...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
And what precisely should be the larger goal of society? “I have come to believe,” Massie has written, “that the true test of greatness for any group of people — be they a family, a community, or a nation — is the manner in which they...
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- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
of your work? “Working for a hunger-relief organization during a pandemic has been tremendously challenging. We’ve had to respond quickly to meet the rapidly increasing need in our communities, which seemed to double overnight. We have focused on learning as quickly as...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not...
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