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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
joined Professor Das Narayandas in a case discussion around the reasons for Cycle for Survival's spectacular success. HBS alumni are invited to watch the video of this presentation.
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- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be nearly obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
model, its message, and its impact on people’s lives.” Dubin adds that while the virtual event was “a bit different,” it reached more people as a webcast, and clips from the recorded conversation with Jeong will be made available online for anyone to view. “They can be...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
would walk in, pick out a student, and say, “You may begin.” That is a defining moment, not just for the person who is called on, but also for the entire class. You can watch the students thinking, “What have I gotten myself into?” It...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
access and watch as people get sicker and the country's financial condition deteriorates. Or mount a massive healthy living campaign by focusing on prevention, wellness, and personal responsibility. In my view the choice is clear, and the...
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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
and people change at their own pace. It's easy to change letterhead (although the ill-fated Pharmacia Upjohn combination labored over logos much too long when they should have been watching the business), but it takes much longer to...
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- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Over the years Jones watched as Culture Shift honored people like Peter Lewis (MBA 1985), managing partner at Wentworth Partners; Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of McAfee; Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO at TaskRabbit; and, most recently, Deidre...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
accomplishments — both academic and extracurricular — of the Class of 2002, what you'll see is a triumph of spirit. This trying time for the country was aggravated by some dismaying developments in the business world. Dismay in no way captures my sentiments as I View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
finance ministry, a more organized congress, and greater budgetary discipline. Soon, the inflation rate began to tumble from highs in the thousands to single digits—a rate carefully watched from 2003 to 2011 by Brazil's then–central bank...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
just that. "It made a big difference to me that Dan went to HBS," she remarks. "It was amazing to watch him in action and learn that an organization can maintain a social mission while managing its day-today activities in a businesslike...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics. “When I was 14, I View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
script: Biscuiterie Jeannette 1850. In September 2015, a little less than 18 months after touring Jeannette’s original factory in Caen, Viana watched as the first madeleines exited a high-tech Italian oven in its brand-new Démouville...
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
suit, would climb onto the dunk tank. Any student had three throws to drop him into the water. I was standing watching this spectacle with some students I had just taught. I’m not sure quite how it happened, but my students goaded me up...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
headquarters in Boston. Rather than hope that train fares and property tax payments eventually make their way into a public good, New Balance built the station themselves so they could watch the use of every penny—even as the general...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
his former students...on a one-to-one basis," explains Robert McCabe (HBS MBA '58). "He took great pleasure from watching their growing success in business and in life. His loyalty to them...knew no bounds. They were his family." 23...
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
in international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies enter the digital health...
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