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- 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
grow from 7.2 million globally in 2013 to 12.9 million by 2035. Our clear and concise educational videos—most of which are freely available on YouTube and Wikipedia, as well as our personalized learning platform—provide a strong didactic...
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- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
themselves. That's sometimes the disconnect that I have with people that they may not understand what I'm saying. Some of the things I've been dreading is just the internet nut heads and just the constant speed that America goes at. Something that's nice about Africa...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique circumstances presented by the cessation...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs
previous environment. So if we see a steeper recovery, and it becomes difficult for VCs to raise new funds, that impact on startup funding won’t happen for a while. What I'm hearing from the VC community is that they are operating...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Umeda visits. Sato-san’s right lung has failed; morphine helps ease the pain, but it’s hard not to worry as the weekend nears. The clinic is always a phone call away, Dr. Umeda reassures them. Matsubara is one of eight clinics operated by...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better manage inventory for faster...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
October 2020. This is her first gig as chief executive, but it’s one she has long envisioned. As a little girl, growing up first in the DC area and then later in Connecticut, McKenna dreamed of running a Fortune 500 company. As CEO of Mercy Corps, McKenna is leading a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss retailing trends and the...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a...
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Garry Emmons
- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Marrying agriculture and alternative technologies will go a long way in reducing 10–12 percent of total global emissions associated with agribusiness. Business Leaders Must Get Political Business cannot solve climate change by itself, the...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
of international affairs at Harvard, explored the rise and fall of global empires. Two afternoon panels dug deep into the challenges and opportunities in the Crossroads region and considered innovation in emerging economies. Alumni...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
manager needs to press him or her on the broader implications of that opinion. We can’t afford the separation of business and law. We need to harness the power of both legal and business expertise to compete effectively in today’s global...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and run. The only possibility was a...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
International Economy (BGIE) and teaching other courses centered on business-government relations and comparative ideology. He is currently working to start an antipoverty alliance of multinationals, governments, and NGOs that is the subject of his latest book, A...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
cofounder of the global investment firm GMO, recently observed in the context of governmental inaction on climate change, “We face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
challenge. "You have to get the price per customer per year down sufficiently low so institutions are willing to handle an account with a few hundred dollars," Tufano says. To that end, his D2D Fund has partnered with SunGard, a leading technology firm, to create...
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