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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats - MBA

willfully communicates or causes to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, orally, in writing, by mail, by use of a telephone or telecommunication device including, but not limited to, electronic mail, Internet communications and... View Details

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

Commencement 2016 Address Play Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 26 May 2016 Class of 2016, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community. Good afternoon View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Pursuing the Ultimate Deal

Ross with Arafat in Gaza City in 1998. Violence trumps everything. (photo: AP Wideworld Photos) Ross with Arafat in Gaza City in 1998. Violence trumps everything. (photo: AP Wideworld Photos) For more than twelve years, during the administrations of Presidents George... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Middle East; peace; Israel; Palestine; policy; Government

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

07 Apr 2023
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Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

Tell us a little about your background and what your interest in climate related issues are. Energy has always been at the forefront of my world, from growing up in southern West Virginia, where my dad worked for a coal company View Details

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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Jeremy Andrus

and so on—that’s one challenge. Then the product has to be shipped and distributed to 30,000 or 40,000 locations across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

first-place finish earned $2,000. Video Embed A 2006 in-flight conversation between Jones and Rogers that led to the formation of Local Motors. But after graduation, the reality of starting a car company from scratch—the actual process,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why Manufacturing Matters - HBS Working Knowledge Making Their Way James... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms' overall strategy. The result: lower... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 Jamestown A Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at... View Details

04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

51 years later? First, my years in the Navy were anything but a dead end. I supervised 70 sailors, providing accounting and logistic services to a scout submarine squadron. My boss, commander, View Details

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

The online bio of EARTH University’s new president Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) describes him as “Ecuadorian by birth, Latin American by heart.” Condo, a distinguished scholar and author, and the former president... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

actually end up building a business that is not as robust because you were building the ship as you were sailing it. Morrell: We’ll explore that idea in the next episode: What can Silicon Valley learn from frontier markets—in Indonesia,... View Details

March 2020
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Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by... View Details

15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named... View Details

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

day. I believed that families should be able to bank their children’s cord blood or make donations; but there needed to be a trusted, quality laboratory and logistics business enabling them to do so.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

Maybe it all begins at a dinner table in Beaverton, Oregon. It’s the late 1980s, at the height of the spotted owl controversy—a pitched battle between loggers and conservationists over whether preserving a bird’s habitat is more critical... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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