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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 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
moisture than the pin-straight variety—can get to a customer in days instead of the industry-standard weeks. The company has also structured its inbound logistics around the goal of driving fewer miles....
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 14 Dec 2017
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Making Movies Is a Class Act
a feature film that is scheduled for digital and theatrical release this month. “Among the things that attracted us to Crooked House was that it hadn’t been filmed before, which meant the ending would be a surprise to most View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
can see when you do that thing with your hand, I'm going to have to be a lot more direct with you. When you say, 'Um,' every third word, it makes you sound stupid." Now she has my full attention, full and undivided attention. Some people...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
Benson P. ("Ben") Shapiro, the School's former Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, has left full-time teaching at HBS to concentrate on research, writing, public speaking, and consulting. A well-known authority on marketing strategy...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Plugged In
car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal road trips for big Formula One...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
are an entrepreneur who is selling ideas that have been tested through rigorous research,” says Akinola, who teaches the first-year MBA course on leadership development. “To me, it’s just as stressful as being in a corporation, but the great View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told
company’s response to the complaint, but the class discussion turned to the motivations of the man who revealed the wrongdoing. Have you ever thought about blowing the whistle? Dey asked her students. Their response: We’ve thought about...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
Philanthropy, who will spearhead the effort along with Emerson. Changes are sweeping the social capital markets, in part because a new breed of donor is altering the terrain: Internet moguls, entrepreneurs,...
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Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
Europe and the United States, he said, "they have already reached a threshold in customer orientation, so you have to do different things to succeed." That's not the case yet in Asia, he pointed out, as Deshpandé listened intently. HBS...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
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In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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Class Day & Commencement
administration. Devoting the bulk of his remarks to the subject of leadership, Whitehead observed that different problems require different leadership styles. When things are...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
revenues of $7.7 billion in 2007. She is particularly proud that 1.3 million people make some part of their living selling things through eBay. “Our concept has been to make a...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
set of ground rules limit the discussion of work matters at home) but claim their experience attending HBS as a married couple prepared them well: During their time at Soldiers Field, they had a “no...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Moving Mountains
What's it like to be a woman in the "old-boy" construction business of the South? "It's a lot of fun," says Kathy L. Barco (23rd OPM), president of Barco-Duval Engineering,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
I took some venture funding. Things have changed with the rise of the Internet and dot-coms; VCs now take a much more proactive role in the business. O'Lear: Since I'm both an...
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