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- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
Back then, Rolling Stone was in a league of its own - with a 25-year history and a loyal readership of 1.2 million. "For me to even utter in a meeting that we were going to challenge Rolling Stone sounded crazy," reflects Clinkscales,...
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Susan Young
- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25...
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- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
handle anything.” “It’s important to learn how to balance IQ with EQ, emotional quotient. There is humanity in EQ. There is leadership in EQ. You can’t run a business for a long time if you don’t have both, and EQ is critical to having...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
eliminates a core source of international instability, and replaces expensive, tax-supported aid with productive, locally generated economic activities. Henry L. Kotkins Jr. (MBA ’72) Seattle, WA Poor Taste? Did the juxtaposition of the images on the front and View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness control the rhythms...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
choices among payment vendors and difficulties finding employees with e-commerce experience, necessitating extensive training. The Question: Cahuzac and his cofounders had planned to run a furniture company, not a logistics one. How can...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds
was one of Tierney's first lessons in compartmentalizing his dual interests — that of running a highly profitable enterprise and that of helping those less fortunate than himself. After some experimentation with combining the two, he...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
to have an impact; we want to improve the practice of management, to make businesses more productive, more effective, and more enjoyable. When business runs well, the whole world runs better. How does it...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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LA Reid’s Song
found his own voice along the way. From Sing to Me: When I go back to the very beginning, listening to jazz fusion bands and loving Miles Davis, or digging what James Brown represented, or even in my rock days worshipping at the shrine of...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
deep resolve to take care of the men and women of the US Armed Forces. I saw the impact on the ground of policy decisions that were being made in Washington. And I saw that the best way for me to make an impact was to leave active duty and go into policy. I had been...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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George C. Lodge
entered Massachusetts politics. Having finished Spearheads of Democracy (inspired by his Labor Department duties, which had taken him to Latin America, Africa, and Asia), he decided to leave the School to run for the U.S. Senate as the...
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- 16 Sep 2013
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Canada’s Native Son
by Maureen Harmon Blaine Favel Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) grew up on Cree Indian reservation. His father was a chief, as was his grandfather before him. "It was a true democracy back then," says Favel, when a chief served at the will of the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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An Emphasis on Teamwork
be a good investor, you absolutely need to be versed in more than just finance,” elaborates Krebs, now running a family office in San Francisco. “You need to understand leadership. That’s where the HBS general management curriculum really...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
make money on it," says Vietor. "The problem is that getting back and refurbishing the parts is expensive. So they're hoping for the best." Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, believes that it is...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
that was very much of interest to a lot of outdoor and sports companies.” On her first ultramarathon, in Madagascar: “I didn’t have proper running shoes, I had no equipment, and I definitely wasn’t trained. So the race was an adventure....
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April White
- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
keep the working, moving forward. All the other board members are senior executives from other companies and they run the committees. Obviously, the chairman of the board has to have oversight, but it has to be, in my view, a completely...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
balance with such a demanding work life? I bike or run to work most days. It helps me to step back and see things in a different way. I’m home at 6:30 on weekdays to have dinner and generally don’t go into...
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- 24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
week when we announced the project to the public, after two years of pouring in sweat, blood, and tears. The public's reaction to Breakwater Chicago was overwhelmingly positive, and I spent the entire week running (literally!) from...
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