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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
online travel guide business, he joined the Internet search giant as director of product management. He was the driving force behind the February 2011 launch of Social Search, which incorporates content shared or created on social media sites into Google search...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
opportunity it presented. “We, as a college, felt like, ‘This gift has just been handed to our institution, our students, and our state, so let’s get after it.’” Since the introduction of Rhode Island Promise, a tuition-free, taxpayer-funded program for recent View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
professor of social sciences, now emeritus, wrote "Communications Technology - For Better or for Worse," in which he laid out concepts that paved the way for the Information Superhighway. The year was 1979. And the magazine was the...
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- 04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour
When Morris was in high school, his mother was given an ultimatum: Switch your nursing shift from afternoons to mornings or find a new job. “She wanted to keep her job,” says Morris. “So I ended up taking my little brother to school every...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared,...
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- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Inc., likes to tell that story, not only for the humor inherent in Wanamaker's statement, but also because it relates directly to his business. "That's a data problem," Howe says. "Business, like life, is full of decisions. Almost every decision you are asked to make,...
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- 13 May 2013
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Alex Popa, MBA 2007
long-held passion. “I was deeply involved in the sciences in high school and at Stanford, and I truly believe genomics is the business field that will lead to the fastest rate of innovation in my lifetime. As an investor too, I see it as...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Rent Out Your Ride
Shelby Clark (MBA ’10) recalled passing “dozens of cars that hadn’t been driven in weeks, and it dawned on me that there are these high fixed costs, so perhaps we could leverage this resource” (New York Times, September 10, 2010). So...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
A tour of Plochman Inc. in Manteno, Illinois, features many of the sights you might expect to find at a business whose sole purpose is to manufacture mustard. In addition to a loading dock stacked high with pallet after pallet of bright...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Education participants who took his courses. "Jai cared greatly about what students learned, and it showed every time he entered the classroom," commented HBS professor Roy Shapiro. "He set high standards. His students loved him." A...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
Headed by newly elected president Maryann Pernorio (MBA '90), HBSA-SNE invites student clubs - such as the Manufacturing & Technology Management Club (MTM) - to attend dinner programs that have included speakers such as John Welch,...
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Amy E. Dean
- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
explains. His creation has drawn praise from environmentally concerned leaders such as Al Gore and John Kerry. On a trip back home, Yarlagadda says he saw a villager using his lantern as a headlight for a bullock cart. “Seeing people use my View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate math problems. "Of course I had no...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
conducted for the case. He learned that although ANA is one of the world’s most pro table airlines, a majority of its revenues come from the domestic market, which is shrinking due to Japan’s declining population and competition from the country’s View Details
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- 01 Dec 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
Above: photo by JJ Sulin My senior year of high school, I got a job as a teacher’s aide at an inner-city school in Hartford, Connecticut. I saw firsthand the difference between the education I was getting five miles away and the education...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
local farmers. Mission: Chaku’s sourcing model helps Ghanian farmers mitigate crop loss, which can run as high as 40 percent because of processing and exporting challenges. Okrah lived close to those farmers in Kumasi, an agrarian region...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
getting lower-cost devices to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them? A $14B market would seem to have ample room for a niche player that focuses on corporate social responsibility while still being profitable." —Allison Sagraves (MBA 1991) "Build on the...
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- 17 Dec 2015
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Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
technology is expanding rapidly as the industry is being reinvigorated with new competitors and advanced electronics, materials, and manufacturing processes,” says Sondecker. His interest in aerospace began in earnest when patriotism...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go
For all their variety, restaurants have two things in common: a kitchen where food is prepared and a dining area where customers consume it. But what if you could use technology to ditch the dining area and just keep the kitchen, trimming...
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