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Michi Ferreol
I gave Harold eight Spongebob stickers for winning the Spelling Bee, all outlined in gold. He clutched them tightly in his small, chubby fingers. The rest of the fourth graders had placed their own stickers everywhere — their lunch boxes, their pencil cases, their...
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- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
immediately drove to campus with the envelope he received from the admissions office. “I wanted the full HBS experience,” he says, describing the spring day that he sat in front of Baker Library and opened his acceptance letter. He...
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- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
Summing Up A since deceased, highly-regarded fellow faculty member, Anthony (Tony) Athos, occasionally sat on a bench on a nice day at the Harvard Business School, apparently staring off into space. When asked what he was doing, ever the...
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by Jim Heskett
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
experiences. I’d also encourage applicants to sit in on an MBA class and seeing the case method firsthand. I still remember the time I sat in on a class as a guest a few years ago, and I always enjoy bringing in my own guests to class now...
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
theatrical demonstration—the pacing and dramatic effect of which had been well-rehearsed—the soon-to-be-famous inventor, then 37 years old, sat for his portrait in front of a large motorized view camera. With a turn of a knob, Land pulled...
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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
information—and it sat on managers' shelves. No follow-up ever took place. You're probably laughing—or wincing—in recognition of what has become a familiar tale of corporate change efforts. Indeed, with all the transformation efforts...
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by Nick Morgan
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
products and services. The event is burned into my mind. I became conscious of the fact that other senior executives with whom I worked were ignorant of their competitors’ products and services. Once, one of my sons ordered a Coca-Cola as we View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The recovery that followed offered time for reflection. A few months later, on vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a...
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- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
might be more efficient to move the patients to where the doctors are as long as we are not compromising the health care of the patients." Khanna recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the globalization of health...
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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
play. The family had sold off a lot of its holdings, so we didn’t control the stock. And luckily, through the advice and again, listening to a classmate of mine from business school—a guy that sat next to me, a guy by the name of Peter...
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brands;
leadership;
management;
strategy;
operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
system. Natalia Rigol Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School In the private sector, in public life or even at HBS, women who look like me or have my background – immigrant, Latina, queer - have not traditionally View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
sat down at his table. He was barely 21, and she, Dorothy Prentiss, 26, would become his lifelong partner. In January 1938, MacDonald graduated from Syracuse; he and Dorothy, now married, left immediately for HBS, where MacDonald began a...
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- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
Mrs. Lauder and sat down for a glass of champagne. It really does work. We grew our business incredibly. Everyone benefited from what was a very simple idea." Wagner doubts that Levitt would have much patience for the froth of...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Haft himself, then head of the company, sat amid a pile of hardcover books. “Books cost too much, so I opened Crown Books,” he said to the camera. “Now you’ll never have to pay full price again.” Haft was right. Together, Waldenbooks, B....
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April White
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
academic labor market. Students with lower-than-average SAT scores tended to have a stronger preference for schools known for athletic success, while students with higher SAT scores preferred institutions...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Harvard-Westlake. I started thinking about all the low-income kids and inner-city kids in Los Angeles whose parents who couldn’t help them go to private school, take them on trips around the country, give them SAT prep, and help with...
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Serge Vartanov
When I was sixteen, I had three loves: martial arts, video games, and this really cute boy who sat next to me in Algebra II. As I entered manhood, I realized that only two of these matched society's image of what a "real man"...
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- 22 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience with Career Services at HBS
grad student, first-generation college student, I've never really sat down and actually took the time to really think about okay, Xonana, this is what you're good at, this is what you want to do. Instead, it's been just a series of, I've...
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