Set Of Priors - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
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Guitar Hero

Berry and the Everly Brothers in rock. The company certainly fit with my love of music and was an interesting business challenge." Gibson's new owners set out to revive the company with a complete makeover -... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

Clubs News Clubs News Setting the Stage for a Latinx Boardroom Push The Harvard Business School Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA), in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Latino Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2021
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HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

helped a few dozen people file for bankruptcy has grown into an educational platform, online community, and set of self-service software tools that help people determine whether filing for bankruptcy is the... View Details

23 Jan 2020
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Bringing Education Back Home

a set of technical skills and, particularly, marketing leadership. We basically branded our story: Two Harvard grads coming back to our hometown, trying to build a better education system. That was our sales... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

materialize," says Stewart. "As a trade lawyer, I see missed opportunities for American firms caused by the West's failure to set up lines of credit to deserving enterprises and by the unimaginative approach... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1998
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Going Against the Flow

bullish on Brazil as a place for foreign companies to set up shop. "Brazil is one of the world's biggest domestic markets," he says. "If you're a company with global ambitions and are seeking global... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

Rich Alton, section E class of 2009. So I work out of a home office, and I have five kids and so there's lots of noise around. So I do my best thinking whenever I put on my... View Details

20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves

driver-assistance platform, which uses machine-learning technology, can provide customized daily routing advice based on prior driving patterns and the driver’s calendar and contact list. It can even let the people you’re meeting know if... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

professor of management practice Joe Fuller and in partnership with Accenture, set out to understand why this mismatch occurs and how to solve it. A Harvard Business Review article summarizes their findings,... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

Another in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore nonbusiness endeavors. It’s no surprise that Teresa H. Clarke (MBA 1988/JD 1989) finds herself on a mission to make education... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

the Ritz-Carlton. They are all great brands, but what I would like to see is people stepping out of their comfort zones.” Never been: To Japan. “It’s an amazing place, and I just haven’t got there. I promised my son that he and I are... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

and a set of tools that can enable you to speak in a certain manner depending on the audience, without eliminating the parts of your accent or your speech that make you you. So... View Details

02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student

connected the two women. “We both embraced the idea of health and education coming together,” recalls Liu. After several years of research, Liu and Chan developed three guiding principles, which Liu says... View Details

Keywords: April White; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
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Whale Wars

their citizens’ long-term interests. So I decided to go over to the dark side and act. I joined up as a ship’s engineer on the 200-foot vessel Steve Irwin, which set sail out of Hobart, Tasmania, toward... View Details

Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up

morning one of Traeger’s big rigs was set on fire in the parking lot, apparently in protest of his decision to outsource shipping to UPS. “The culture was so toxic, I knew it... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

schools, have benefited from setting up internal management development programs and facilities in order to maintain a qualified pool of employees. Replicating U.S. business practices in other countries is a... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future

Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently, five years as chief executive... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2018
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Turning Point: Power Outlet

Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the death View Details

25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story

ancestors—were willing to make to seek something better. Think about, especially, those early immigrants. They had no idea what they were setting forth into when they left their homes. They got on a ship, and they didn't know if they were... View Details