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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
multifamily buildings, particularly in low-income residences,” she observes. “At 25 units or more, you have real economies of scale.” A higher-density project may be on the horizon for Birchwood Sustainable Development, says Harper. But...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
1,200 employees work, reopened just ten days after Katrina wrought destruction of “biblical proportions” on the Gulf Coast community. Oreck recently talked about that experience and the future. Were you prepared for Katrina? We had always...
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Jenny Tison
right away. I persevered, believing I would ultimately succeed – I learned the power of positive expectations.” When Jenny returned home to Virginia, that power rose again when she tackled a sport not often associated with the South: ice...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
plays in finding balance in work and life. Anxiety and fear. How to deal with the unknown and unexpected along the way. Work-life imbalance. What to do when faced with the choices and demands between a busy career and a full home and...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Unexpected Moments at HBS
some of the most powerful stories I’ve ever heard. We all teared up together, and saw how an amazingly loving life partner can help someone recover from the pains of the battlefield. This is a place where my mother, a quiet Midwestern librarian, walked up to a friend’s...
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- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
labels and schedules home pickups. The Times called thredUP an example of how “shopping is changing in the wake of the Great Recession,” with Americans burnt out by their decades-long spending spree. In a phone interview in early January,...
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- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
"A magician has to be very much aware of the emotional state of the audience to get that emotional buy-in," Thomke says. "You can take a trick and do it very clinically and people will sit there and say, 'That was interesting.' Or View Details
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Emmanuel Mensah
entire section HBS’ initial appeal came from its general-management approach, an opportunity, Emmanuel says, “to become exposed to different industries and businesses, to absorb new approaches to problems.” Among so many colleagues with rich and diverse backgrounds, he...
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Missy Blakeley
I'll share with you a dirty little secret: all these wonderful opportunities... scare the heck out of me...! When I was growing up, my parents told me I could do anything I set my mind to – yet I was still not allowed to bike past the...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
bathroom is next to your kitchen, which is very bad luck, you can hang a crystal between the two. You can also place symbolic objects in precise locations to counteract certain effects. How did View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
patients after they leave the hospital, during what is called their “post-acute care.” Many seniors don’t simply return to life as normal. They first need to go to a nursing home or rehab center or schedule a visiting nurse. As a medical...
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- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
receive higher valuations and less restrictive covenants when they raise capital? Sarah Jane Gilbert: Can you explain the concept of "performance persistence" and what it entails? Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner: Essentially, entrepreneurs...
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Shawn Tuli
Raised in Belmont, Massachusetts, Shawn Tuli is a local who has returned home after long stretches of education and real estate-related work in Atlanta, D.C., New York, and Philadelphia. “Real estate has been a theme throughout my life,”...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
are perishable and you need to wait at home for them to be delivered. In that light, do you think there's a future for online grocery shopping? A: Home-delivered groceries?...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
consensual. You should want the job as much as the job wants you, so act in interviews as you would with colleagues to make sure these are people who will help spark that creativity. I added the “within...
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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
my kids to have me away so much," she said. "There are certain jobs that you just can't do part time." Now she's home again and taking time to consider what sort of job she would like and how...
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by Wendy Guild
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
protein biomarkers that have been identified as the precursor to Alzheimer’s disease. “There’s still no cure,” he observes, “but if you know that someone has the early signs of the disease and combine that with some of the new drugs the...
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