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- 06 Dec 2012
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New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so they can provide more and more View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
more sophisticated information streams from bank transaction data, tax payments, and industry comparables. This same data feed can not only promote better credit underwriting, but it can also enable small business owners to be more...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and...
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Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
manages to combine sophisticated concepts of physics with high fantasy in a marvelous way." Heartlight was followed by the equally acclaimed The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect, contemporary mythic tales featuring an adventurous young...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation
language barriers.” Yu and her coauthors arrived at this conclusion after looking at spontaneous Q&A sessions in more than 11,000 conference call transcripts from firms based outside the United States. Using sophisticated software, the...
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Erin Peterson
- 21 Jul 2010
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Mad Men, the Early Era
viewed online. Fans of Don and Betty Draper’s suave sophistication will find much to enjoy here, even if the exhibit’s “Mad Men” were working thirty years before the AMC show and its 1960s sense of modishness. Looking at these photos is a...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Full Circle
hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
creation tactics, the club uses small-group strategy sessions led by trained career coaches to guide members through the job search process. “It’s a practical yet sophisticated approach to the job hunt,” said Angela Piscitello (MBA 1995),...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
technical, regulatory, and economic. Advances in technology, which enhance existing advertising capabilities and create new ones, reach well beyond the Internet and include things such as innovative new software, sophisticated data...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Dec 2009
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The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
self-confidence, sophisticated analytical skills, and the ability to make decisions quickly. And unlike the top-down hierarchy found in the U.S. military, the IDF is a ground-up organization where local commanders are responsible for...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
radically different company today," he says. "It's small enough that my fingerprints are everywhere -- you can get your arms around this place." Interbake's smaller size allows it to turn on a dime when it comes to supplying products to meet fickle consumer demand. Its...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Nov 2013
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Selling Crafts with a Story
turned into Brika.com, an online marketplace featuring everything from handmade tea towels and dishes to tote bags and "Mr. T" onesies for baby. Brika, which takes its name from the Spanish word for factory, fabricá (they just loved the irony), is what bloggers have...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
right to outfit and sponsor individual teams? Sophisticated sports marketing outfits, often subsidiaries of the top marketing services firms, conduct detailed assessments to help companies like Nike and Samsung determine what value to...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1999
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Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
to improve a potential deal that under the best of terms may still be unsatisfactory, more sophisticated negotiators carefully assess whether those efforts might be better spent away from the table, generating competing offers or...
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Anita M. Harris
- 01 Dec 2005
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Buy the Book
recognition, Patterson regularly outsells other “brand-name authors” such as Stephen King and Tom Clancy by simply publishing more books, averaging three titles each year with the occasional assistance of a coauthor. Patterson brings an ad man’s View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
created in a moment of conversation and connection that wasn’t about ease, speed, and convenience. What are the big questions for legacy retailers trying to find a way forward in this new space? AM: How to remain relevant. Most retailers are now View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
mortgages are now held by institutions with little connection to local communities? It obscured the risk that is inherent in lending and in owning. We have developed such a sophisticated housing-finance system that we were able to layer...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from...
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Julia Hanna