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- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
research, Nitin and I are involved in teaching a second-year elective called Great Business Leaders, which draws on cases developed from our database. We talk a lot in class about legacies and how business leaders should be judged —...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
evidence suggests that while there is certainly some traditional behavioral piece to the demand-side problem—that is, people scaling back because they are nervous about the economy and their economic prospects—a very large share of the problem seems to be these more...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
that plays a pretty significant role in your book. And I wonder if we can talk about that breach and use it as a case study. How the attackers got in, what damage was done, and how digital resilience could have prevented something like...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
recent research has focused on the issues facing financial institutions in the Internet age. "Banks have often been slow to adopt technology and to change what they do," she observes. "But the competition that the online banks are sparking is forcing traditional banks...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill
explains Gehrke. "I am definitely not the type to climb the corporate ladder." In 1978, she launched Design Lines, Inc., a small housewares business. When the company failed in 1980 ("a textbook case of being unwilling to let anybody come...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2013
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A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee maker, and analysis of cost,...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Management. Harris approached the three decades after HBS as if he were tackling case studies in entrepreneurship. From executive positions at utility companies and owning a car dealership, to launching a Silicon Valley startup, each of...
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- 08 Oct 2013
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The Green Giant
to the US and looking to our Senate to make those commitments." Roberts appreciates how HBS is integrating environmental and sustainability concerns into case studies and says he would love to see Harvard continue to build a strong...
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- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
setting with others of like talent. Employing the case method, it is predicated upon the same expectations as HBS, that the candidates have real-world experience and exceptional ability. In the core program, participants receive 360 hours...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Facing Ambiguity
commitment of time and resources, careful consideration is given to whether a case justifies the treatment. “It’s not technology for technology’s sake,” Roberto notes. “We should only use multimedia when we have a pedagogical innovation,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
truly amazing,” adds Goldman. “The Partners of 63 will be critical to DonorsChoose as we expand nationwide. Their expertise is invaluable.” Goldman also calls upon classmates and HBS professors for advice. In fact, Associate Professor Frances Frei decided to write a...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give birth — including stitching them up...
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- 02 Jun 2011
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Serious Fun
green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard...
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- 22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
session over a week in June, where they were matched one-to-one with seven HBS alumni mentors for guidance on strategy, problem-solving, and more. The club designed the War Room series to allow HBS alumni to interact directly with promising startups in Singapore....
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
the fact so many of them came to my aid is a testimonial to the rapport, humanity, and cohesiveness of the HBS community.” Professor Josh Margolis helped to write and now teaches a case on Prize4Life in his LEAD class, ensuring that...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
parting thoughts with the Bulletin. How has being HBS Dean affected you? It’s been a great job and an intense learning experience, often requiring new skills you don’t necessarily have when you start. You talk to people, you learn from your mistakes, and you grow, just...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley
will always be better if you hear from colleagues, who, as in a wide-ranging case discussion, will contribute different perspectives. And, of course, HBS training and an understanding of the economic and business world are crucial to...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of South Vietnam “were never debated at the government’s highest levels.” In the View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA ’92) of a recently published...
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