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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Blue No Longer
(“Baby Blues”) and concentrated instead on cutting costs (by paring the workforce and closing plants) and expanding IBM's capability to help companies meet the full range of their computing and IT needs. Keeping IBM intact “was a big...
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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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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
have a price for carbon, a tax or some kind of cap-and-trade regime. The lovely thing about a price for low-carbon energy is that it’s technologically neutral. It tells innovators what we want and lets them...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Baker’s back
School’s Department of Operations, several internal HBS committees, and teams of outside experts. “One of the things we did really well was hire...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
billboard-shaped notices -- about 10 percent of those who saw the ads were enticed to click on them. These surfers were taken to the sponsor's Web site, and a new age in advertising had begun. Today, advertising on the View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
only black student in the classroom was something I encountered in high school and all the way through my time as an undergraduate at USC. I cannot tell you the number of students at HBS who would come up, after they got comfortable with...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
much thought to where ‘there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop. Half a century later, I believe it’s the best advice—maybe the only advice—any of us should ever give.” Recommended by Entrepreneur Eileen Rudden (MBA 1976) Grit by Angela...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage
the day I left the hospital. While visiting my relatives in Egypt, my uncle, a medical professional, told me my accident was the ‘least worst’ thing that could have happened to me to force a change of...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2006
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HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
be a library of cases for use by communities coping with future disasters. “The idea is that we’d be able to fly in and talk to local business leaders and say, ‘These are some things that folks in New...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap
processing with the use of quantum networking—or the vast potential that you would get by networking quantum computers together to create a quantum internet. “Because of some View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Internet company, which he set up in 1993. Tian says he relishes his HBS connections. “I want to be involved so we can train a lot of people to help finish our economic revolution.”
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- 25 Aug 2022
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On Purpose
It can’t be a bolted-on thing somewhere over on the side.” “When these priorities are embedded in your business practices and in everything you put into the marketplace, that’s how you get impact to scale. It can’t be a bolted-on View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
about the surprise and delight of being served. One thing I’m looking forward to is returning to New York City, where I spent a lot of time after college. There are a number...
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- 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 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
time. It is incredibly validating to see so many of our customers signing up for the monthly VIP membership and, even if they don't buy every month, are always happy to receive our emails and see what we've picked for their showroom. "The...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
“The Internet Ecosystem: Are You Ready?” HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean and director of External Relations, then provided an overview of recent events...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be...
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