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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
Post·cook·ie (adj.) Cookies—those bits of data that track online browsing history and save your passwords—aren’t going anywhere. But third-party cookies that allow a shoe advertisement to follow you from page to page will become a thing...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
future." Two years later, an article charting the history of computerization and noting that the School had recently purchased its own data-processing equipment concluded with a prophetic question, "Is individual privacy to become the...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose core View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
life as a trained assassin, working directly for the South African government to take down prominent political players when requested to maintain national security and apparent order. Join the Dots by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
too. “It’s a nation-building exercise,” the former co-CEO and chairman of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion says. “It’s critical to Canada’s history and to our future.” The Erebus sank in 1845, part of an ill-fated mission by British...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
-Rawi E. Abdelal (Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management) – Professor Abdelal is the director of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His primary expertise is in international political economy....
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- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
JD/MBA degree as a way to ensure that he’d have all the necessary tools to do so. But as his time at Harvard drew to a close, Singer continued to wrestle with what to do next. Law, public policy, and politics offered the most obvious...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
tribal leaders revoked the citizenship of Black Creeks, even those who could trace their history back generations—even to Cow Tom himself. Why did this happen? How was the US government involved? And what are Cow Tom’s descendants and...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
Lincoln—already besieged by personal and political difficulties—weighed his options, knowing that a loss at the polls would almost certainly mean a permanently divided nation. By late August, Lincoln faced a crisis as great as any other...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
tells her full story for the first time. Where Past Meets Present: The Amazing People, Places & Stories of Southern Oregon by Dennis Powers (MBA 1969) (Hellgate Press) Powers has collected 140 stories about southern Oregon’s people, locales, and events, from town View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
worker productivity, equality of opportunity and economic mobility, even economic growth—are consequently all eroding and threatening the economic, civil, and political life of our democracy. Of course, Adam Smith makes an appearance,...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic volatility and one begins to understand that entrepreneurship is as...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
service PayPal, launching a classifieds business, and acquiring Skype, a leading online communications firm. “We’ve had a chance to make business history and at the same time have an incredible social impact,” says Whitman, who was named...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
especially timely, coming as they did on the heels of a failed EU budget summit in Brussels and the French and Dutch “no” votes on the proposed EU constitution. For those in the audience not well-versed in European politics and economics,...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS...
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- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and copresident. “It seems like ancient...
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