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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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- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
people, sometimes totally new, came to the village for the first time. In a few places I visited, genocide victims were given plots of land right next door to someone who had been a perpetrator of the genocide, thereby encouraging some...
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- 03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Unless we have colonies elsewhere than on earth, there is a time that humanity could disappear. That’s the doom scenario. There is a talk by Jeff Bezos on that... For those of you who haven’t seen it, I would encourage you to look for it....
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro, who View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
feature some books about Dallas in a book group he’s organizing for the club. In all club planning, Sheets says, the board is focused on developing programs that build relationships, through content that encourages engaging discussions...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit
what happens behind the scenes, such as better work processes, internal communication, collaboration, and renewed creativity that fuels innovative problem-solving. A key reason why BCG or any company would be interested in this research has to do with the concepts of...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
and - much as in word processing - efficiently, with minimal keystrokes." Bricklin made good use of the School's computer resources as he struggled to germinate the seed that would grow into today's ubiquitous spreadsheet, and he found near unanimous View Details
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
learned at HBS was delivered before he even arrived on campus. Feerick was accepted to the School under a deferred admissions program and encouraged to spend 18 months in the business world before joining his cohort. During that time,...
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April White
- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
bills-in-progress which would address important, but incremental, changes, such as methane waste prevention in fracking. “But the most important policy thing we can do is to price carbon,” he said, which would reduce carbon production and View Details
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- 04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach
changing the field of global development itself. When evaluating programs, “We want to be as quick as possible; we want to encourage iterations,” Esther says. But a lot of nonprofits get, say, a five-year grant to deploy a certain amount...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script
fanatics. “Getting under the skin of the brand made it much easier to understand the right stories to tell and the right people to bring on to our team,” he says. The movie’s success was “gratifying on both a personal and a brand level,” Lin adds, because it View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
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Ink
was in anointing loyal followers to succeed them rather than new visionaries. “They could have looked for new leaders more attuned to the next generation of technology, customers, and competitors, or encouraged a more competitive...
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- 27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing
talented young people and encourage them to apply to HBS. Under the leadership of HBS senior associate dean Thomas Piper, the East-West opening expanded in the early 1990s. Vlachoutsicos, in collaboration with HBS professor Francis...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity
racial/ethnic identities of our students over the past five years are available on our website. We’re working hard to find talented people from all backgrounds and encourage them to consider HBS. We recognize the importance of building...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people adapt their lifestyles and the...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to report on the Board's activities and to encourage you to provide feedback. Last year, under Cathy's energetic leadership, the Board divided into three committees, each one taking on a broad issue of importance to alumni: Continuing...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
assignments and class discussions to incorporate the crisis, and they are encouraged to continue, says Badaracco. Several new cases already are in use, including “New Century Financial Corporation,” focusing on a subprime mortgage...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
three-day capstone course that helps graduating students synthesize the insights they gained at HBS. Introduced at the conclusion of classes in April and involving more than 100 faculty and staff members, Bridges encourages students to...
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- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
transferring learning, you mentioned that the federal government has been encouraging states to develop their own apprenticeship problems. I assume, given Reach University's visibility in the space, you're hearing from people trying to...
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