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01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

to reduce our costs through lean manufacturing and automation so we could get investors to buy into the business. It also required salesmanship to get people interested in the equine business, which is not at the top of everyone’s list as an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

the heart once you’ve gone and assessed those types of things. When I get calls from like venture capitalists or other people who might want to invest in some of my alumni, the easiest reference checks that I find that I can make, the... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

teaching hospitals, so when it offers small-group teaching and tutorials, the school draws on doctors in the affiliated hospitals,” says Garvin. “We may need to consider a similar model where faculty are heavily invested in the design of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

representing pharma, energy, and investment discussed their responses, and those of other corporations, and the critical roles that partnerships and collaboration with US and other non-Ukrainian companies can play in supporting their... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

strengths. "The work we are doing in technology right now is intended to open up a host of opportunities," explains Dean Clark. "Yes, we are making an extraordinary investment in hardware and software, but the real success of our endeavor... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

pause, that we gain these tools of investing each other, of cultivating a sense of awe, of trying to make life harder in some respects because we know that we can learn things that challenge our preconceptions through struggle, to make... View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

proposition? How are they going to make money? How are they going to get an adequate ROI on this? How much investment is it? And how quickly can they recoup that investment? In the same token, I've got to talk to the rights holder, in... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

’91), an expert in project finance, studies how firms structure, value, and finance very large capital investments such as oil fields, mines, and power plants. His research covers both developed and developing countries, including... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

direction. "For the first three months," Charron continues, "I did nothing but listen. I had to listen to figure out what the hell was going on. All I did was go around and meet people — hundreds of people inside and outside the company, in the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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