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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
unpredictable elements: Cuban politics, US politics, and the weather. The potential payoff? Making the first footprint in the sand. Watching a country take a new shape. Being part of a revolution. Keeping up the vintage American fleet at Havana’s NostalgiCars can...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth." Helping to lead a revolution of...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is...
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- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
a nurse, often discussed economic theory, especially as it applied to health care. An economics degree from Princeton was the springboard to a business career that began on Wall Street at Kidder, Peabody. "I...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles
long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global consultancy. A recent study published by the National Bureau of...
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- 19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress
challenge leadership as we know it today. We have coined the phrase generational diversity to distinguish the complexity that's surfacing right now in the workplace. By 2027, people of color ages 18 to 29—and that's your gen Z and young...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there’s a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic activity and business innovation will be much more widely distributed...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion and debate on China, Hong Kong,...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
complexity of pulling together idea, sound, and movement into a unified whole. The squirrel skitters to the edge of our path, thinks better of it, and darts back to safety—a smart decision, since Langford never saw it. Which isn’t to say...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference
the globe to put their skills to work on issues related to the environment, education, the arts, health care, poverty, and economic development. In the United States, fellows worked in diverse organizations such as the National Campaign...
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- 09 Apr 2020
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“Raise the Line”
born. Today, Osmosis features thousands of engaging animated videos that explain complex ideas in under 20 minutes and is working with more than 60 institutions, including the University of Illinois, New York University, and the...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the integrated circuit, and...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation
more than a billion people have been brought into the circle of economic inclusion—but there are still billions more waiting, in America and around the world. Business leaders have a vital role to play in helping to widen this circle of...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
we think about everything," he remarked. "Information technology has to march in lockstep with business," agreed Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir. Software that automates complex transactions and expanding customer service on the Web are...
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