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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
full glory of their wealthier pasts. The point is that they are becoming places where people want to live, shop, run businesses, and go to school." At HBS, a number of faculty are engaged in research and teaching projects that treat these...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
focused, where people feel they are on a mission, actually inspires creativity. An example might be an impending project launch or a customer with a critical need. In these instances, the creative team is concentrating on a problem where...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
best innovations: Find and fill an important unmet customer need. Plan for profitability. Strive for sustainability. Establish credibility. Gather necessary resources. Lead and manage effectively. Maintain balance and learn to enjoy the...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
systems. What does it mean to be globally competitive in today’s economy? From a business fundamentals perspective, you win through innovation, low cost, or better customer service; in my opinion, innovation is the most sustainable...
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- 08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
firm's mission is to empower under-resourced small business owners and accelerate their success by providing high-impact and customized strategic, financial, operational, and marketing support. "The Acceleration Project caters to people...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
knowledge of how to get the product out there. Distributing refrigerated products is not an easy business. People could probably come pretty close to copying our re-cipes, but to actually do the marketing and distribution, manage shelf lives, get View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities for them—as evidenced in the connection made between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). From Brazil to Harvard A native of Brazil, Westphal moved at...
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Becca Carnahan
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
algorithms and data collected from the individual student (and from other students previously) to create, according to that student's needs and knowledge, a customized road map for arriving at the individual's educational objective....
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit
through last year, Antares had engaged 88 students in 17 projects, spanning 11 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America (in the Mississippi Delta). Teams of four to six students, evenly drawn from HBS and HSPH, take...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Section B, year of 1979. I would urge people not to think of retirement as a term at all. Now you are at a stage of life where you have freedom to choose how you will engage your time and energy, your purpose. You have the financial...
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
difficulty keeping the heat or the lights on. Together with our headquarters team and researchers, I work with policy makers and policy groups to help develop and support better policies for young children.” What attracted you to this position? “My role at Children’s...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
are very different from 25 years ago. Some of that results from new materials, but some is because we’re empowering foreign students to bring their backgrounds into classroom discussions.” For a school that pioneered participant-centered business education, removing...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
buying from, selling to, and competing with enterprises and customers from around the world. What all four had in common was that they worked to extend the reach of markets, and hence of competition, into places that Schumpeterian...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he should put a glass window between the production area and factory outlet store. Maybe the workers wouldn’t like being watched by customers while they worked. No, they said, it’s fine. We’re helping the clients, and we like looking at...
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- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
Institute for Sustainable Investing, that shows that 80 percent of individual investors in those next generations are interested in sustainable investments that can be customized to meet their interests and goals. 86 percent of...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
colleagues partnered with 1,222 hairdressers in 200 neighborhoods in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, breaking them into four groups: two groups that received different cuts of condom sales, one that received wall charts and stickers to show View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
doing their best to keep up. Many are engaged in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers: GM plans to spend $4 billion on electrification in China by 2020, for example, while VW intends to roll out 15 NEVs over the same period. And the...
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