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- 01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal
is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. What else about marketing conventional wisdom invites...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and settled on desserts. They are the...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate across View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement
organizations—our students today do not care about this divide. So many of them come to HBS with a deep interest not only in making profit but also in doing good. So it’s multiple stakeholders putting pressure on businesses, and...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with everybody,” he recalls. “The...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
Morgan—Rodríguez helped give the nascent movement a moniker. More than just a tangential part of the movement’s creation story, the name gave it a useful center, says Matt Bannick (MBA 1993), managing partner of Omidyar Network, eBay...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co....
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
growing,” he trails off. “I’m not very good at sitting for 10 years and waiting.” “You plant the seeds,” Mawilmada continues. “Once they start growing,” he trails off. “I’m not very good at sitting for 10 years and waiting.” Managing the...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
through Shopify and social channels with influencer gifting. Consider investing in a PR/marketing agency if you aren’t good at content curation and creation. Then, after you have a brand identity and foothold, you can also consider...
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- 30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS, Harvard College, and MIT attended the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier
depicted in the book were reconstructed from interviews, using the perspectives of multiple people. I made seven reporting trips to northeastern Syria in all, between 2017 and 2020, along with conducting more than 100 hours of interviews...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
then joined Answerthink, a West Coast consulting firm, where he continued as EVP and managing director while he earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar at HBS. Answerthink wanted Shumway to relocate to New York when he finished his MBA, but...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
preclinical studies in animal models including Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, melanoma, and breast cancer. Skouras launched Olatec in 2008 after founding Global Reach View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
of PowerInbox, says it’s too soon to call it quits on email—far from it, in fact. PowerInbox, which manages targeted ads within subscriber-based newsletters for publishers like Crain Communications and the Seattle Times, has enjoyed 7,500...
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Jen McFarland Flint