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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Action Plan: To the Letter
typefaces to shape your customer’s experience Look for every opportunity. Few companies think to do a brand audit focused on typography, leading to a muddled visual identity, says Chacko. “One of the easiest View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
support a climate friendly economy and then also, I think let yourself be guided by the things that you're passionate about. I hear a lot of people who are excited about moving into climate and want to do an...
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- 02 Dec 2019
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Championing the HBS Fund
with their Harvard contacts, both in the Boston area and around the world. Dosiou, who participated in a health care Executive Education program at HBS in January 2019, has found members of the Harvard community to be “very open-minded,...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
storage, or scaling global water recycling. The great thing about opportunities in the climate arena is that they all matter. In water, my sphere of action, I and the founders who are generous enough to let...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career...
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- 31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself
the same time are comfortable with all of the things we're doing to reduce risk." There's plenty of risk involved in biotech startups. The data might not pan out. The funds...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
who regularly seek his advice. But some things are different, he laughs. "I work only five days a week now. No more Saturdays." When he was just 34, Zehnder took a very big risk. In the age of the...
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- 01 May 2013
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Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Hospital. My uncle is president of the United States and my cousin will take over the same job in a decade. Big things are expected of me. But I’ve always had troubles...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
of the Don by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) Dundurn Press Debunking the Bump: Why Most of What You Believe about Navigating Pregnancy Is Wrong by Daphne Adler Siniscalco (MBA 2004) CreateSpace This book...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
from his post as a vice president at Internet travel giant Expedia to become a philanthropist-in-training. His “teacher” has been Seattle's chapter of Habitat for Humanity, where he has been busy helping to...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber...
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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Voice of Experience A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid criticism in the past, but View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A business career comes full circle
an increasingly globalized economy. During his tenure at HBO, McGee grew home-video operations to more than 70 countries, and is credited for the early adoption of the Internet for marketing and program...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that is to look at what has changed at Bain & Company in recent years. Increasingly, our clients are demanding strategic counsel in this critical area. At least two-thirds of them currently engage Bain's services on one or more View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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She’s Got Your Back
want things to be done right, but we don’t want to invest a lot of thought and process in finding a solution.” Online reviews are nothing new, of course. But Angie’s List was...
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- 18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In...
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- 09 Oct 2017
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Saving an American Publishing Icon
David Bradley (MBA 1977) is chairman of Atlantic Media. In this interview, he explains how the rise of the internet actually saved and helped improve the venerable Atlantic...
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