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- 01 Dec 1997
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Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
returns for shareholders and enabling Slayton to take a sabbatical), it had gained 75 percent of worldwide marketshare in VRML authoring products. Slayton's latest ventures include developing an oil mapping technology, running a management consulting firm, and...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books
numbers one never thinks about, even though they play a crucial role in most aspects of life. Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96) (Harvard Business Press) Johnson identifies four View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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Acting Naturally
initiative is not just teaching them the fundamentals of soap-making, but asking these communities what it means for them to make a difference. And I mean, just asking that question can have a profound effect on how people view themselves...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank
for future needs such as retirement or education,” reflects Adams. “However, there are some environments, including Vietnam, where that fundamental tenet is not the best economic decision.” Pedro Noyola (HBS 2013) noted that while he...
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Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2022
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Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be fundamental to our ability to respond to whatever inevitable climate change we’ve baked into our future,”...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Environmental Impact
University in Mauritius to participate in the School’s online business fundamentals course HBX CORe (Credential of Readiness). They are also helping to fund a Global Opportunity Fellowship that provides support for recent HBS graduates...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Platforms and Collaborations
matriculation. Still, Clark notes, “the residential aspect of HBS is at the heart of everything we do, and the classroom experience and the case method remain fundamental to our mission. Online capabilities can enrich them, but they can’t...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
Is significant foreign direct investment in China a good thing? Conventional wisdom says yes, but HBS associate professor Yasheng Huang disagrees. "Large-scale absorption of foreign direct investment by China is not a sign of the strengths of its economy but of its...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Giving Hope and Comfort
funders, most of whom had difficulty understanding that hygiene products are as fundamental to health and well-being as food. But the pandemic changed that: Suddenly, everyone understood the importance of a bar of soap; the organization...
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- 14 Jan 2022
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Power Play
sustainability, and the environment. “We fundamentally believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between having good investment returns and doing something that is good for the environment,” says Graziano, SER partner and chair of...
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- 28 May 2019
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Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
look, I decided that something here is interesting—and probably sustainable. Bitcoin feels increasingly mainstream. What’s behind the lingering skepticism? I think the question is whether there is a fundamental use case. If somebody can...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2009
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Alumni Books
mistakes that doom individual investors to market underperformance. Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA ’01) and Joshua Pearl (Wiley) As the world of finance returns to the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Restoring Order
founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the fundamental soundness and...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
After graduating from Wellesley, she took a position in retailing that inspired her to enroll in the MBA Program. One of only three African-American women in her class, Marshall thrived at HBS and credits the School with teaching her "the View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
enterprise that offers discounts for products and services exclusively to active-duty military, veterans, and their families. ID.me empowers individuals to prove who they are online and get access to benefits and discounts by verifying group eligibility against...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
of profitability. But those changes have made a level playing field for everyone; there’s no competitor of size that is not now a bank holding company. Goldman Sachs is always changing its various businesses — often greatly — but the View Details
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- 01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
who began using that dictum thirty years ago as one of his fundamental principles at Sealed Air Corporation. Dunphy turned the fledgling New Jersey-based company that initially made Bubble Wrap into the world's largest producer of...
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- 16 Mar 2015
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A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
cofounded Computacenter, a global IT services company. Launched in 1999, the Ogden Trust has funded the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, at Durham University, and helped dozens of students to study at English universities and at the...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving View Details