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- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
of Fortune: What Rich People Have That You Don’t Want by Richard Watts (OPM 31, 2002) ((Emerald Book Company)) Nude Nuns and Other Peculiar People: A Collection of Stories from the Heartland by Charles A. Wells Jr. ((CreateSpace) ) What...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
exploring a particular market? The Department of Housing and Urban Development has a rich collection of data sets to help you understand local housing markets.
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
India’s reform process is more arduous than in authoritarian China. But in India, there’s more of a collective “buy-in” to reforms because the interests of all constituencies have been considered. What areas do you see as most in need of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
be enterprise-wide. It had to be all-encompassing, because digital transformation is all-encompassing. We were stakeholder-driven, collecting input from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We took a design-thinking approach to the...
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April White
- 19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
well, to the point where you have to wonder whether Americans have simply become unleadable. Leadership used to mean giving people a sense of being something larger than themselves, and convincing them that, with a clear sense of what unites them, Americans are capable...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a...
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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and management alike––a stake in the profitability of each...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
health research grants. We support the AKC Companion Animal Recovery, an organization that focuses on providing lost-dog recovery services by maintaining a database for animals equipped with an ID microchip. The AKC also has a world-class View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
to merge with information from other facilities. There’s a new disruptive technology in the works, personal electronic health records (PEHRs), an open-source tool that collects data from all providers and gives patients access over the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
where individual success is so highly prized, we have created an enterprise that combines enormous individual effort into a collective enterprise that is very successful," notes Slifka, the firm's managing principal. It is not surprising...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
hundreds of millions of dollars, the ALS grant to Cytokinetics is significant because it facilitates the collection of plasma samples from test subjects over an extended period of time. The samples will be shared with academic...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
with recasting the landscapes of his properties, adding to his extensive collection of early-19th-century antiques, and, to quote his friend Berry Tracy, curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "getting things...
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Deborah Blagg
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
the US, has already collected 70 million bottles. Ramase Lajan currently provides jobs and income for more than 1,500 people daily and has generated more than $460,000 in the local communities. “One of the first days, I saw a guy bring 40...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care
restricted networks. As a result, some believe we ought to get rid of health plans and move to a single-payer system where the government is the payer. We disagree, because health plans have important value-adding roles in the system, such as View Details