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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
for you.” I’m not sure how I made it through the last exam, having realized that I needed to start my job search all over again. I called him to tell him my decision, and he said to come over so that we could discuss what I did want to...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Manufacturing, IBM; Sanjay Kumar, chairman & CEO, Computer Associates International, Inc.; Alfred S. Chuang, founder, chairman, & CEO, BEA Systems “Web services are underhyped at this point. Customers are quietly starting to use this technology, and they’re driving...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
senior partner at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart. He offers advice on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, negotiating compensation, cultivating a mentor, and knowing when to change jobs or industries. Sunset...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
control healthcare costs through better prevention. For instance, in 2014 the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adults over 65 receive a dose of Prevnar 13, a Pfizer product that protects...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in the financial services industry....
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor...
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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
environmentalist. He and I spent a lot of time together discussing the larger environmental challenges of our time. He was a big thinker. He was very encouraging and supportive of my desire to shift my career more in the direction of public service, as he referred to...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
then methodically proceeded to rationalize P&G's cost structure, sold some businesses, acquired Clairol, and delivered upside revenues and earnings surprises within months. Rick and A.G. are two shining examples of how capable company...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
searching for new leads. In 2008, Benjy came across an article on halofuginone (HT-100), a drug compound derived from an ancient Chinese herb that had shown promising results in treating muscular dystrophy in mice. They tracked it down to...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
will learn about the challenges of entrepreneurship and undertaking new projects. Herrera Ronco teaches that entrepreneurship is a path to plenty and offers a real possibility to build a more prosperous and humane society. A Geophysicist’s Memoir: View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
that many never sign up for pay TV at all. “I suspect that what is happening is much more profound, and that revolution will come from individuals and companies creating content at a fraction of the cost per hour of traditional pay-TV...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
have in common, however, is that they are all searching for market opportunities. In fact, Stevenson says, good entrepreneurs gravitate toward business opportunities for which their personalities are well-suited, such as "numbers...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
a couple of young MBAs. But fate works in funny ways. For one, it brought Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) together in Section I. The two became friends and started dating near the end of their first year at HBS, but weren't quite ready to...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
carriers that do that best will have a tremendous competitive advantage." Liz Claiborne, too, is applying technology "aggressively," Paul Charron says, to reduce the cost of operations, the time-to-market with new fashion products, and...
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Nancy O. Perry