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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
founding teams generated less than half as much—just 31 cents. “We don’t want to put up barriers. We’re doing some things structurally to make sure we don’t exclude founders because of where they came from or what their prior experience...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
trauma edged in too: The King George Hotel, just next door, sold for a song in 2017, when Eurobank was unloading foreclosed properties to bring down the balance of its nonperforming loans. “Forty-three million euros, it was the best offer...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
think more carefully about how they manage and organize themselves. Palepu: Paul, you spoke about the breakdown of checks and balances in the system generally. Can you elaborate? Healy: One thing that strikes me is the enormous pressure...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
1979) This book ruminates, from a natural world perspective, on consciousness, choice, growth, time, and death in the context of quantum physics, Kabbala, and healing energy. It discusses natural communities, seasons, migration, cycles, and View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my boss, in which...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
them individually, telling them why I thought CORe would be good.” And he’s noticed changes since his children completed the course. “Their vocabulary is more business-oriented. Now they talk about economic trade-offs, balance sheets, and...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
shape and dimension and structure in real time. “It was this other half of how the brain works that everyone had missed,” he says. And so, Numenta became a different company. Yes, it meant a change in direction and all those disruptions...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
that we hadn’t structured our capital right; we had a payment problem. In the consumer world, if I walked out of a store without paying, that’s called stealing. But in B2B it’s accepted that I’ll deliver my product or service and send you...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
buying-patterns should set off alarms. Why hasn't this issue received more attention? In this country, we've had an implicit cost-benefit analysis in the backs of our minds for many decades that the movement of other people's money, tax-evading money in particular, is...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
goal and understand the requirements, pitfalls, and potential routes involved. Seek a support structure and inspiration. Identify other groundbreaking achievers and understand their habits and skills. Connect with optimistic people who...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
not schedule meetings that last more than an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you View Details
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Time management
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles and creating intelligent and...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
administrators. While the coursework through the CSML program provided the structure and rationale for highly effective leadership, the access to a cadre of exceptional leaders from across the world was equally beneficial as we continue...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
21st century. —JH —Carliss Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration. She studies the process of design and its impact on firm strategy and the structure of business ecosystems. How do you successfully market an...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
driven into the ground and see the structure rise from its foundations. Walking across the campus allows for many chance conversations with people who readily share both what is working well and what’s not. I love Harvard Business School;...
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