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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
start. The investors can pay for the cars and the gas. We can drive the cars really fast." —Gene Williams And Williams is more than happy to provide a model. "It's almost like somebody has the ability to...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
over at the museum at a key time, with the Met in the midst of a campaign to raise $400 million. The article also detailed Houghton's lengthy stint of physical therapy and rehabilitation after a near-fatal accident in 1993 when he was struck by a View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In 1996, while standing beside her car after she and her family had pulled over on a quiet roadside in upstate New York, Langer sustained devastating leg injuries after she was struck by a vehicle whose driver had fallen asleep at the...
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- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
Two weeks into his Leadership Fellows position with the Detroit’s Office of the Mayor, Nikhil Patel (MBA 2019) was summoned by the Mayor for a car ride. Among Patel’s mandates – which included economic development, housing, and...
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Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture 2015 | About
Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture , 2015 Tony Tasset (American, born 1960), Arrow Sculpture , 2015, car paint on aluminum. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery. . Conceptual artist Tony Tasset’s new series of paintings and sculptures,...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
hindsight everything seems to follow an ordered path, but in truth, I didn’t have a master plan. I’ve done things because I believed they would make me smarter and because I was passionate about them, whether that’s physics or running a View Details
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April White
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
bother. We want to make it a no-brainer. You pull into your garage, you don’t have to think about it, and the car will just start charging. “I really came to HBS to round out my skill set to be a general manager. My whole aspiration was I...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
they return to campus this month. On the to-do list? Forging partnerships with e-commerce retailers (which might offer a Boxxify option at checkout) and car services like Uber (whose drivers could deliver packages on the side). Plus, to...
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Francis Storrs
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
http://www.directorsandboards.com/html/curissue.html Working Papers Principals and Their Car Dealers: What Do Targets Tell About Their Relation? By: Bouwens, Jan, Eddy Cardinaels, and Jingwen Zhang Abstract—In this study we describe...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
plan might entail setting up a car wash, a truck haulage company, or a fast-food van. “PEP is a terrific program, and I would love to get even more involved,” Edis says. To that end, Edis, whose family has been affected by incarceration,...
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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
tuition. “They said, ‘We’re not going to buy you a car but we are going to pay for your education.’ It wasn’t until I was older that I really understood the importance of that,” he says. An awareness of how challenging it is for students...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
airline ticket, or renewing a car registration - users activate their wallets, which then enter credit card, billing, and shipping information onto a point-of-sale form with a single click. But even the most basic wallet doesn't stop...
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Judith A. Ross
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
service—price, for example—but being flexible in other areas, such as letting drivers choose the car they drive, says Hagiu. "This places [Uber] somewhere in between pure platforms and pure employers. While everyone agrees that the key...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
because these companies clearly are incapable of competing with Japanese-owned companies that are simply producing better cars at lower cost. Won’t we continue to have a U.S. auto industry? It’s just that the manufacturers will produce...
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- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
sense of being in a landscaped pedestrian precinct." Most traffic disappeared from campus in the 1980s, and "scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated" now dominate the landscape....
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- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
committed to helping others achieve shared goals?" In some situations—a Wall Street trading floor or a car dealership, for example—people are paid on commission, and it doesn't matter if they're committed to helping others. In other...
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Carolin Oldenbuettel
worked on a project to optimize the target costing management system, aligning new car models to feasible costs,” she says. “What I like about the auto industry is that they’re more and more influenced by tech—self-driving cars, for...
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- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Meanwhile, the United States has become increasingly less open as both of its political parties espouse protectionist policies. A few examples: New passenger cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Boston’s ancient...
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Oded Navon
car on the road – everyone is home or in prayer for a day of introspection. My hometown commemorates Yom Kippur in a way I’ve always loved, taking advantage of the fact that everyone is home to reconnect with neighbors. At sunset,...
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