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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
across the river and around the world than CIA, to symbolizing much that the younger generation and people everywhere aspire to. Not to say my classmates and I have had a whole lot to do with ending the Cold War, or the near universal acceptance of View Details
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every...
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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)
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coordination between sales, marketing, and, crucially, manufacturing. As an egomaniacal, 30-year-old marketing maven, I had been conditioned to look down on the “functional groups” run by people without advanced degrees who got their...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous....
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
assistance in developing countries. The nonprofit’s inspiration came from Goodwin’s HBS classmate Sam MacHour, whose experiences in Liberia and Burundi convinced him of the need to confront the underlying causes of poverty. While at HBS,...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
can cause pneumonia; it had previously only been recommended for children. (The recommendation was later softened when it became clear that vaccinating children naturally led to fewer cases in older adults.) But few believed that the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
range of ideas and voices assembled by a succession of talented editors. From ardent speeches on leadership by the School's founders, to impassioned editorials about the causes of the Great Depression, to insightful commentary on the dawn...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
globalization of markets and competition changed American business forever. Twenty years out, over one-third of the class had been fired or laid off at least once. Fundamental practices that worked for most of the century - large staff...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on companies in the health, lifestyle, and fintech sectors. To...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
minimum wages to go up 13.5 percent a year. That’s an 82 percent increase in wages over five years. Higher wages will cause China’s growth engine to transition from low-cost exports to domestic consumption. My prediction is that over the...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
herd of elephants in Ghana? Working for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) might seem like a logical step, but Andrew Murphy (MBA ’07), director of strategy, research, and development at the WWF’s Markets Group, would disagree. He insists his...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
marketing is huge now, but I learned very little about that when I was a student. Can HBS provide more opportunities for alumni to stay in permanent beta and continuously grow as leaders in today's dynamic and fast-changing world? Anubhav...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers, designers, and clinicians work together. What lies ahead? We have a clinical trial coming up to validate our technology, and a series of View Details