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- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
(once a characteristic of living things only, right?) in its answer. It assessed the situation, took a calculated risk, and bet just enough to win. Game, set, and match—$53,601 to $42,399—to the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
"Rather than defining spirituality for people," says Whiteley, "I ask them to think of a time, be it at work, volunteering, playing on a sports team, whatever, when they were totally absorbed, when everything was cooking for them. They...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
class. Harvard had been siloed by school, and the Harvard i-lab, which opened in 2011 and evolved into the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, was one of the first things that very deliberately cut across...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Feb 2019
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Dean Nohria: Business Schools have a Vital Role in Teaching Trust
decision through the triple lens of their economic, legal and ethical responsibilities,” says Nohria. “Beginning in 2020, the curriculum will go further by asking students to consider what proactive, positive View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
others, which is much more difficult to do in developed nations." Starbucks met that challenge by creating a "third place" for the customer between home and office, increasing the size of its stores and adding enticements such as soft...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of...
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Manufacturing
- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Allston
many catalysts that are launched by this inspiring and large vision that is Allston.” Dupré expects that the Allston investment will have a ripple effect on the city of Boston. “We hope that it underscores and magnifies all View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work
“We’re still using terms like telework and telecommute, says Auerbach. “The reality is—even as someone who works so deeply in this field—I actually can’t tell you what those things mean.” Modernizing the lexicon to reflect the reality...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?
director and writer J.C. Chandor pretty much from the ground up. Picking films is very much an art, more than a science. One of the great things about film festivals is you get a sense View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
“Real estate chatter is the most popular sport in Manhattan,” says Kirk Henckels (MBA 1976), who has made a career buying and selling some of New York City’s most luxurious apartments. In his new book with Annie Walker, Life at the Top,...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
TECH KNOW-HOW: student Angelica Lopez with Jackie Adams (MBA '78) and Edward Olebe (MBA '99). Photo Courtesy HBS Club of Greater New York The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has joined forces with Dell to put computers...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Batteries and Chocolates
past 20 years of my life, I find it impossible not to believe that men and women tend to manage things differently. My evidence on this point is mostly anecdotal, but it hits me whenever I venture from a...
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- 18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter
“Long-term, it’s a way to change the income gaps that exist in our country,” said Burke. “For kids to succeed, they must have a vision of what they want to be and a motivation to succeed. Sometimes I think we put all the emphasis on other...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Students craft their post-HBS lives
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. As part of a first-year required course, MBA students are asked to imagine that it’s their 10th reunion and write an alumni...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten...
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Finance
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
caterpillars, gazelle, and crocodile. They hiked through rain forests in Costa Rica and across high mountain passes in the Himalayas. They camped on the Serengeti surrounded by wild animals and slept in Japanese ryokans. Simon says the benefits View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
Although Abercrombie is concerned about the future of the industry and its ability to invest in innovative new product development, she knows that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Books
to the next level. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at HBS, and Norton (DBA '73), president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc., found that the diverse companies that...
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