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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give birth — including stitching them up...
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- 02 Jun 2011
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Serious Fun
green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
reelection campaigns in West Virginia. Garth was a bit of a pioneer in the field of political consulting. I also worked at NBC, and then decided with all the changes in that industry I’d better get a grounding in business. I liked opening View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
leveraging HBS's strength in this area by launching a series of programs designed to connect professors to practice. The group has since sponsored workshops on the case method, interactive learning, and research techniques, among other...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Leading Quietly
well is tricky." Accordingly, he provides short case studies to illustrate some of the many thorny issues a quiet leader might face, how a new CEO deals with a sexual harassment case, the personnel issues facing a bank president, and an...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Incentives and Operational Excellence
common to both major corporations and mom-and-pop shops, and offered practical solutions based on his research. One case Narayanan used to illustrate his point involved a family-owned video store. Generally in the past, he said, as many...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Students Win Energy Competition
were given 36 hours to analyze a case about how a mid-tier oil and gas company should respond to federal mandates requiring ethanol-blended gasoline. Each team presented its conclusions to, and was questioned by, a panel of executives...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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71 Snapshots
The Bulletin profiles eight outstanding members of the Class of 1971. While their backgrounds and interests are diverse, they are all united by a common characteristic--the ability to bring a sense of excellence to everything they do. Access articles here: An Atypical...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Francis J. Aguilar, 1932-2013
Frank Aguilar (MBA 1959, DBA 1965) Photo courtesy of HBS News Office HBS professor emeritus Frank Aguilar (MBA 1959, DBA 1965), a faculty member from 1964 to 1995, passed away in February at the age of 80. "Frank was an expert in general management and ethics, a...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
others—all say the participants inspire them. That inspiration ranges from sharing the passion of people dedicated to improving their communities to learning real-world problems that help with their research and case writing. Each summer...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA ’92) of a recently published...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
where he is going, any road will take him there emphasis in original. If any road is okay, the chief executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not...
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- 02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change
so-called "rare" cancers (responsible for over half of cancer diagnoses and 35 percent of cancer deaths), wanted to translate her passion for spinning into a force for change. Cycle for Survival, the organization born from that resolve, launched in 2007. A View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003
Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows learning from others’ success and...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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NFLers Tackle HBS
assist players in preparing for life after football. The players cracked cases on a variety of business topics and took workshops on entrepreneurial opportunities and business management. Also from the NFL and now in the MBA Class of 2011...
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- 02 Dec 2018
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Fostering Great Leadership
president in 2006, CEO in 2011, and chairman in 2013. During his career, he often found himself experiencing déjà vu. “Over and over again, I encountered situations that harkened back to HBS cases,” he says. “And the insights those cases...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Leadership in Practice
Jenrette (DLJ) when he applied to HBS. “I already had the analytical skills,” he recalls, “but the rigors of the case method raised the bar for me.” Dawson greatly admired his HBS corporate finance professor, the late Scott Mason, whom he...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Orientation Teamwork
interactions among people from different backgrounds and different sections.” Teams play an important role in the educational experience by encouraging more in-depth case analysis and preparation, providing working knowledge of team...
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- 06 Nov 2014
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Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
includes the provost and the Harvard school deans), making the case that the project’s model—open to startups employing a graduate of any Harvard school—would offer the kind of cross disciplinary collaboration sought by the “One Harvard”...
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