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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
local news ecosystems. With that intelligence, we will be working in the next 18 months in a handful of states where we have a couple of keystone-publisher opportunities and the right mix of funders and stakeholders at the table. We’re...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
certain. You do something and you get the right answer," he observes. "In business, you come out of class and you don't know the answer." Although he struggled with English at first, Jakurski earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar. He then...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican
You were right all along. From being a left-wing-dominated party, we have become a centrist-dominated party. OK, maybe we remain one or two clicks to the left of you, but still pretty darn close. (And, yes, a lot of us agree the teachers’...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
and then as a repo man for a bank. He was soon fired from both jobs. He was outspoken and liked to be left alone: the right temperament for a writer, but not for a business career. One year after graduating from the world’s most...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
accent and direct, engaging manner, he comes across immediately as the kind of person who is accustomed both to doing things right and to doing the right thing. Over a late afternoon cup of tea in a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success
agriculture, and Lydia had a background in the food industry. “It seemed a good match,” he says. “And if you do it right, harvesting maple sap is a totally sustainable agricultural practice.” Good Timing and Good Chemistry Doing it right...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
while, everyone else in the ground-coffee market had done something similar, and it’s been going on ever since. You tend to see this happen at times of increasing costs of raw materials, wages, and energy prices—anything that puts pressure on manufacturers’ margins....
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
Chung and Kapadia: winning teamwork. (photo by Thomas J. Fitzsimmons) Chung and Kapadia: winning teamwork. (photo by Thomas J. Fitzsimmons) Two students in the MBA/JD joint degree program took top honors at Harvard Law School's 79th...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Flying High
regulatory issues, as well as intense competition from Europe’s Airbus. “The task here is growth,” said McNerney of his new assignment at Chicago-based Boeing. “That’s the thing we’ve got to get right over the next couple of years”...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life
battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
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Pitching In for Female Leaders
yet I was one of the few women who made it through the glass ceiling to the top of international football. Until one day, the rug was pulled off from underneath me, and I found myself out of a job. There was a horrible social media...
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- 17 Aug 2020
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Democratizing Medicine
right? A primary care clinician, if they see a patient, they have a question, they are trying to figure out what the right diagnosis or care plan is for their patients, they can access our platform. “They provide a brief description. They...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price
Kaplan realized he had made a classic entrepreneurial mistake. He let his quest for perfection get in the way of progress. “We thought we could find the perfect location, get the right costs, the right...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Faculty Books
Leadership by Bill George with Peter Sims (Jossey-Bass) Based on research and first-person interviews with 125 top business leaders, Professor of Management Practice George describes how anyone can become an authentic leader. He presents...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
For thirteen weeks last year, Kelli Socarras got a taste of life as an HBS student. She read two case studies each week, debated management solutions in class, and learned from top executives in a wide range of industries. She...
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- 10 Nov 2020
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In Harmony
“It’s not about money. It’s about mission. Everything else is the same,” he observes. At Brevard, the money made on tuition and performances—which draw an audience of 40,000 over the course of 80 to 100 shows each season—goes right back...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top venture...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of MBAs 15 years ago, I had the...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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“Culture Is Everything”
transforming IBM, talked about the key strategic decisions he made when he took the helm of the struggling company in 1993. Initially reluctant to take the top post, Gerstner, an outsider, determined that it was important to keep the...
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