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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short stories and 78 books, with sales...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
firms, and investment houses, to Pfizer, Disney, Lincoln Center, and even the US Air Force. “These organizations are talent-driven and operate in demanding circumstances and markets,” Dowling notes. “They want actionable, resonant advice—with impact.” In 2021, she...
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- 24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It became a New York Times bestseller and received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier
transmitted around the globe. It is a subject that Kominers explores in depth in the recently published book he coauthored with Steve Kaczynski, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
edition of Corn Among the Indians of the Upper Missouri, a book originally published in 1917. Featuring interviews with women planters recalling the tools, methods, and seed varieties their tribes had used,...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
office." The building, which houses design, strategy, and human resources, is marble white and ultramodern. There are no cubicles. Nisa's desk sits behind a panel of see-through glass. Despite the transparent surroundings, Nisa is guarded in her public profile. In...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
success and cultural expectations, Nitasha Tiku writes in “Family Trust Shows Silicon Valley’s Secret Obsessions,” a recent article in Wired. But the book offers much more, according to Tiku: Family Trust is most deft when the competing...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income”...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
“Pathbreaking.” That, in one word, is how HBS professor Ranjay Gulati describes the impact of Organization and Environment. The book was published in 1967, reissued by Harvard Business Press in 1987, and won...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering, by Makoto Fujimura A reflection on Shusaku Endo’s 1966 Silence: A...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
When Barnes & Noble rolled out a line of “store-brand” classic books last summer, the publishing industry gasped.The company aimed to provide consumers with high-quality books...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
their travels, providing “how-to” tips for families with similar interests. After Jennifer succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in February 2003, completing the book became a labor of love for Nichols. Exotic Travel Destinations for...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Author
help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Phillips and Nelson: Book reviews are their business. Courtesy Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips Three years after launching Bookmarks magazine, a bimonthly guide to new books, Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips (both MBA ’95) are still...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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The Next Chapter
love Cambridge, and I love Harvard Square,” he told Publishers Weekly (September 15, 2008). And speaking of corporate strategy, especially in the book publishing business,...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Software published its first title, Guide to Birds of North America. The week of that first CD-ROM’s release (the company now markets seventy titles), Thayer and his wife, Roz, were spotting penguins in Antarctica, leaving their three...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
August, Quin returned to Yemen, where she interviewed the imprisoned Muslims whose release her captors had sought, in order to better understand their thoughts and personalities. Having completed the bulk of her research and some writing (she hopes to View Details