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- 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?
secretary. Talk about a nonstarter: no way am I going to voluntarily pay more. That noble act would neither correct the unfairness of the system nor make much of an impact on the country’s unbalanced budget. Perhaps I could justify my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
America, if not the world,” he was talking about harness racing. Who knew? Of his management style, Robinson said, “Everyone approaches challenges differently, which doesn’t mean one way is right or another is wrong. The only question to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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The Billion-Dollar Question
—World traveler, public speaker, and consultant Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) is the author of Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking across America and The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. While on his way to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
old—a blip for an entity that dates, some believe, to the third millennium BCE. Yoga was widely introduced in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, as Indian practitioners emigrated to the country, and Americans traveled to the source... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 04 Feb 2016
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From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
As big as it is, the Super Bowl has only fleeting impact on its annual host city. But a team of HBS alumni in Santa Clara, California, where Super Bowl 50 will be played this weekend, found a creative way to take advantage of the local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
outbreak sites. It primed political leaders to understand both the far-reaching consequences of outbreaks and the need to make rapid containment a high priority. SARS stimulated efforts to find ways to lessen the impact of the next... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
less than $1 million. HBS Club of Charlotte/ Monthly Networking Lunches Sometimes doing nothing together is the best way to get to know each other. That’s what the HBS Club of Charlotte has discovered with its monthly Networking Lunches.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
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Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
Valley noted. "This means negotiating separate contracts for who will do what, at what price, and for how long. Negotiation has become the way we do business." In her research, Valley found that the communication medium used in a... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
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Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
that veterans didn’t know they had. “We work for employers who hire veterans as a way to gain competitive advantage,” he notes. “We’re a for-profit company; there’s no charity here. Veterans make great employees.” (Published August 2015) View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
sales. He leads a team dedicated to assisting inexperienced entrepreneurs as well as longtime industry players who “require a new way of thinking about common issues.” The team provides strategic planning, coaching, and mentoring, and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) believes stories “are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t. But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for change through policy.” As the author... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
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A man on a mission
and physics at Cleveland community colleges at night while his career took off at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center during the day. “I felt such an obligation to those teachers who had helped me, and one way I could pay them back... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
initiative. “For many years, a significant number of people at the School have pursued a range of activities in this arena,” Clark wrote in a memo addressed to the HBS community last fall. “Richard, working closely with a faculty advisory group and the HBS community,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Case Study: Golden Ticket
billion market, I would go vertical for the next year or two. I would go deep and learn along the way to master the business fundamentals and identify parallel/complementary markets you can expand into. This will prepare the firm to go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
value. The “something like the truth” scenario involves one party not being totally candid about facts that could negatively affect the outcome of a deal. The “doing the devil’s bidding” scenario pits one’s personal values against the expectations of an employer. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
At GE, I wish I’d sold our insurance business the day I got here. On the personal side, I wish I’d had the chance to work and live with my wife and daughter outside the United States. What is most often forgotten in the everyday busyness... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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An Electrifying Tale
Prior to earning her MBA, Maryanne Cataldo (MBA ’92) decided to leave Washington, D.C., and her job as an economist in order to plug into a different career. She moved to Boston and joined an electrical workers union as an apprentice. “I said, ‘Now that sounds like a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Prima Datarina
were the first company in North America to perform the Mahler, because it requires an extraordinary orchestra and corps of dancers.” It also demands something of the viewer, in a way that more narrative works like The Nutcracker and Swan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna