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- 01 Mar 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?
entrepreneurs who had built $10 million to $50 million companies, and I realized, “Oh, they’re not superhuman. I can actually do this.” So I started thinking, what business can I bring to e-commerce? Luxury beauty. We raised a million View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system should spend View Details
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution
removed from fossil crude. As a result, algae could pull fossil-fuel generated CO2 out of the atmosphere and transform it into nearly carbon-neutral diesel or jet fuel with minimal environmental impact—a handy trick when demand for...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery
"We see infrastructure as a $60 trillion opportunity." —Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982), CEO, General Electric "Transportation offers the single best opportunity to make cities livable and affordable." —Scott Griffith, former CEO, Zipcar...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
NFL, Nokia, Sony, UPS, and United Airlines. "Well-crafted programs have generated hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental revenue for some of the world's leading marketers, while ill-conceived...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
of dollars to do so. That’s our number one challenge right now: how to visibly grow the participation levels in US Soccer Federation programs and bring in more of the underserved communities.” The mission is personal for him. Soccer was a...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
center.” Instead of subsidizing this agency, Congress wanted the PTO to generate significant revenues for the government. As a result, starting salaries for examiners fell far behind the private sector, and it became difficult to recruit...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice
establishing your intent as a donor, setting strategic priorities, hiring staff, and managing compliance, administration, and governance. It typically makes more sense for families looking to invest millions of dollars over many years to...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
corporate wellness market by partnering with health plans and employers, and has expanded into more general health and wellness areas, with apps for people who want to eat better, for instance, or be more fit. After discovering that their...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Feb 2020
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Honoring a Legend
broader impact on the world. “It was super flattering to be selected,” says Nussey, whose companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value over his career. He cofounded a software company in high school and...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin knew it provided no benefit to...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really big bets. On average, the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
No Reason to Go Nuclear While I applaud the general thrust of Byron Wien’s “My Two Cents” contribution in the December issue, he wandered beyond his competency with the following statement: “We will need to View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
next generation must be formally groomed to ensure we remain globally competitive.” As a group, the Chirchirillos have attended the weeklong HBS Executive Education offering Families in Business. Daughter Trisha (OPM 36, 2007) and son...
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- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
advancements in green energy production and the promise of direct air capture. But there was something missing. TB: There's a lot of people looking at how to make renewable energy that, when you generate it, doesn't produce CO2. And...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
it’s a good thing to do, but because it makes good business sense,” she says. “We’re addressing a massive gap in content.” Aussie advantage: “The general perception of Australians is that we’re easygoing and approachable. And the accent...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14
experiences and services at scale, from the smartphone to the desktop to interactive TV." —Bob Lord (MBA 1990), CEO, AOL Networks "Cloud storage will become more specialized (versus generic services like Dropbox). I think we'll begin to...
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