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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
chicks to these remote villagers and did so in a way that enabled everyone to profit in concrete financial terms, from Keggfarms itself to the rural villagers. Almost a million households are today affected by Keggfarms, and the numbers...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
role a little easier. Because of how many things can be done remotely currently, I've had the amazing opportunity to spend so much more time at home with my son. Best memory from RC year? I think a super sweet story is that just recently,...
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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an "art object" (and which has been displayed as such in the Paris Louvre). Though it is a tangible product, a Vipp bin's price cannot be even View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
and grow cohesive teams with a tribe of supporters and advisers. “We saw this as a moment to focus on the human side of learning and connecting in a remote world,” said Wallace. “How do you build a startup when you’re all in different...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
offering occasional remote workdays—they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen. How the Future Works offers a blueprint for...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
research station and a marine sanctuary. Â “In remote locations, you have to think about creating a community, not just a hotel or an outpost,” Bailey observes. “Tetiaroa holds a privileged place in the hearts of Polynesians, so we must...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of companies operate, investors can give helpful insight around people and culture. You can ask how to work through team challenges, enhance your company culture, or even how to make remote teams work. If they’re not the experts in these...
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by Julia Austin
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
stay. For instance, the pervasiveness of remote work, the reduction in business travel will be longer-term contributors to reduce CO2. Potentially people being more comfortable cooking at home—cooking more plant-based meals at home could...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first to stand atop Mount Everest, in 1953; and Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, in 1969. But Vescovo hadn’t gotten there by himself. To send one person to the most remote places on the...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
told Lo. “Because if the unit economics of this thing turn out to be even remotely true, it’s the future of food.” Lo’s interest was piqued. She knew almost nothing about farming and had always just trusted that the Western world’s food...
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://hbr.org/product/southwire-and-12-for-life-scaling-up-a/an/714434-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-053 Freemium Pricing at Dropbox Online storage company Dropbox provided remote storage over the Internet of any type of...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
COVID by all age groups. People were looking for different kinds of flexibility. Remote work, to the extent that this continues to be, benefits older as much as it benefits younger and creates the opportunity for a different kind of...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
heartbeat spiked and my hands started to tremble slightly. I took a couple of deep breaths and started scanning for targets. Through the remote weapon system, I saw five individuals maneuvering amongst prepared fighting positions. I began...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
divides resources to a process-based perspective focused on ways to link and leverage the individual competencies and capabilities that exist within the organization. And," he concludes, "they need to shift their attention from sophisticated systems that often result...
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Nancy O. Perry
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
families also have a stake. Transportation affects health and safety. And all of us want to get somewhere, primarily for work. The biggest use of highways in America is work commuting. Even in a world going digital, we still need physical infrastructure—to support...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
far from the remote peninsula on Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu (MBA 1999) (DC Comics) In this installment of the Poison Ivy story, Dr. Pamela Isley, Poison Ivy’s real name, is now a...
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Print View - Course Catalog
option still provided for mentors who wish to visit remotely and students who may need to be physically absent. "Mini office hours" with mentors are still offered via Zoom - students post their person Zoom links on the course Google Sheet...
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