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- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
valuable and transformative." Also last September, Acxiom unveiled its beta Audience Operating System, which allows marketers to connect traditionally disconnected data across all channels — online, offline, and mobile — and which Howe...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS
Bank after a distinguished career as a Wall Street investment banker. "I wanted a program that would stimulate their thinking and make them aware of different approaches to problem solving and implementation of alternative courses of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
to any business school grad: setting up accounting systems, developing marketing strategies, monitoring performance, analyzing competition, creating business plans and feasibility studies, pricing, developing and evaluating project...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street banker brothers to buy out...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
in a safe place. Right after entering the room, he asked [Janek] what had happened during the whole time [when he was gone]. [Janek] told him that he had been interrogated at the police station at Wilcza Street and that he said nothing.”...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
awards and accolades from the World Economic Forum, the Wall Street Journal, and MIT’s Technology Review. “This is a $170 billion market screaming for a fundamental innovation,” says Evans. “It’s a fantastic...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
bid. The company that would become Roshan was granted a license in January 2003. At that point, the clock began ticking on an immediate goal: launching cell phone service in five Afghan cities by July. A Roshan billboard overlooks a View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes intense cyclicality that can result in turmoil and hardship for many. And we interfere with that cyclicality at our peril, as pent up economic forces will eventually be unleashed with far greater ferocity. Still, under capitalism, View Details
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
year as Doriot's teaching assistant, came on board in 1966, the triumvirate of the new firm's founding fathers was complete. Greylock-named after the street where Elfers lived in nearby Wellesley Hills-would be anything but traditional....
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson...
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- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
Seventies, the restaurant industry was primarily focused on operations. As the industry matured and became more competitive, the larger corporations began to hire employees from companies that are known for their strong, traditional View Details
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis
Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the context of an active View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14
author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing...
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