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- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
example for others. Any success that I have had has been the product of peers and mentors who have provided support and inspiration for me along the way. So, it’s nice to think that I can be that for others in some small way.” Pathipati:...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
national economy, bringing access to consumer goods, jobs, and global markets to Brazil. Having helped build Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev into one of the world’s leading breweries, Lemann now divides his time between corporate...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
our competitive advantage.” Late in 2013, Fieldhouse shared the 2007 HBS case study about Specialisterne with Mitch Levy of Australia’s Department of Human Services (DHS), who in turn shared it with his boss, Gary Sterrenberg, chief...
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Jennifer Myers
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
and economic development for use in the MBA and Executive Education Programs. Other recent publications include a coauthored Harvard Business Review article on "What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming" and a California Management Review piece titled...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 23 Feb 2011
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A Capitalist in China
Throughout his career, Kuhns says, he has never forgotten an exchange that took place in his first-year MBA production course taught by Professor John Bishop. In response to a student whose answer to a question had clearly missed the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor
competitiveness of America’s corporations. The lesson from our financial crises may be that it is not rules that are wanting but principles. Getting people to do things right has more to do with helping them understand a set of principles...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical device company marketed...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working in an emerging View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
History By Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry (MBA 1976) Waterside Productions I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in American history. This real-life story includes a multitude...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with a Race to the Top competition that promised more than $4 billion in stimulus money for states that—among other reforms—heeded the call to establish what the President referred to as "laboratories of...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
globalization of markets and competition changed American business forever. Twenty years out, over one-third of the class had been fired or laid off at least once. Fundamental practices that worked for most...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer