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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
exhibitions and NFL Europa, a de facto minor league, failed to establish a viable Continental presence for the league. Longer term, the NFL will look at London and other foreign markets to determine whether a franchise could be supported....
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- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
my life. Joking aside, getting great press or opening a large account are the entrepreneurial highs that keep us going. The most challenging part of the business is managing inventory. It is easy to be aspirational and to design the next 10 products. However, given the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
process is the product,” Bohmer confirms. “It’s much more than a piece of paper.” Next, Kaplan and his team introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS), which transforms the hospital’s health-care delivery model. How those enormous...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
smaller groups for a full day of site visits, each focusing on a different track (water, microfinance, and retail, for example), with the goal of identifying a viable business opportunity to present to the group that evening. Intrigued by...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
experience working with a Ukrainian supplier named Rolin Kostya, who continues to make his products under great duress. “The week I spoke to them, there had been a half dozen air raid warnings—and indeed one interrupted the Zoom call—and...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton
discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
Own? Number of U.S. states where a $7 hourly wage is sufficient to rent an average two-bedroom apartment: 0 Hourly wage needed to rent an average two-bedroom apartment in the state of Maryland: $13.25 1999 U.S. minimum hourly wage: $5.15...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
what does that reality look like? To further understand the families behind the statistics, we asked alumni to offer stories from their successes and struggles—their doubts, their decisions, and their daily routines. “I returned at Booz Allen Hamilton fresh out of HBS,...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
different message. As he writes: “Even when adaptation appears to be the only viable option, we should do more than blindly accept—and eagerly adapt to—change. We should seek to understand why the change has been forced on us, how we...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
observes, however, that while large companies often find it easy to identify opportunities and needs for new product ideas, "they find it difficult to shift into an entrepreneurial mindset that creates new View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
become an independent self-employed income earner. Also examined is how education for a career is becoming more important than ever, but it may not necessarily be a college degree. Why and how higher education is having to evolve as a View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
education expenses and home purchases for a million new IDA holders. But even if that funding comes through - no easy task, given Washington's post-September 11 spending priorities - convincing financial institutions that low-income savers present a View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
original Hendersonianism: “In this new environment, the essence of strategy is not the structure of a company’s position in products and markets, but the dynamics of its behaviors. The goal is to identify and develop the hard-to-imitate...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
conclusion turned her toward business school to research “how to build a sustainable business with a ‘double bottom line’ — a firm that is profitable and benefits society.” Choi aims to lead a company that will provide low-income individuals with View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary to turn great ideas into View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
minimum wages to go up 13.5 percent a year. That’s an 82 percent increase in wages over five years. Higher wages will cause China’s growth engine to transition from low-cost exports to domestic consumption. My prediction is that over the...
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