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01 Dec 2014
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Customizing Couture Online

now ubiquitous invitation-only Internet flash sale. Up next for Wilkis Wilson: at-home beauty service startup Glamsquad. That’s what Tinker Tailor offers. “I heard from all these women who really wanted to buy beautiful high-end clothing—and they had the View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

sales and distribution operations to service the needs of large mass accounts. After considerable restructuring in 2002, Neurosmith was delighted when Target agreed to distribute its products and launch them in the fall of 2003. “For a small company without an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

programming vision, to recruiting and motivating a growing team of employees (some of whom, like Swan, were commuting from other cities at the time). Also in play: managing a tight, closely watched budget while walking the line between... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

what should the State be doing. What's should the State agencies be doing, what should the Georgia legislature be doing, both budget wise and legislatively. And we were very happy that when the first few months of releasing that white... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

career. "It was a fabulous experience. It was there that I became interested in the education of the artist." Under Lazarus's leadership these past twenty years, MICA's operating budget has increased eight times, its endowment has grown... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

01 Apr 1997
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An Orchestral Startup

with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Oct 1998
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New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid

rates; no loan origination or guarantee fees; guaranteed approval for all HBS MBA students; availability to any HBS MBA student, without a cosigner, regardless of the student's citizenship; no minimum loan; maximum loan equal to the student View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

on his rapport with the musicians and—in a field where operating budgets depend heavily on philanthropic support—his ability to work a room, the serious matter of contract negotiation began in late spring 2005. With all the particulars... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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New Releases

HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted to faculty research and course development. A typical year at HBS will produce hundreds of... View Details

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

opportunities for disadvantaged youth vanishing, he decided to use Project Destined’s learning platform to help other organizations move their internships online. “So many of our cities are challenged right now with budget issues.... View Details

13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve

and principals; negotiating partnerships with private-sector organizations to help cover the district's budget shortfall; and managing and supporting the partnership's 37 Home Office employees, including Director of School Operations Carl... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with cities from Austin to Pittsburgh hiring... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2008
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Designing Change

consultant.” It’s easy to see how students would relate to 35-year-old Kahn as he takes on CEO Bill Boyd’s challenge to help revitalize Muzak’s image with clients and its corporate culture on a budget of just $900,000. “Since Muzak’s name... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery

FAA administrator Jane Garvey said the agency's $40 billion GPS revamp is making strides but is "very dependent on the budgeting process." "Maintenance is not a vision. It's hard to rally support for it." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter Problem:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

wrote. The fiscal 2009 budget anticipates revenue growth of just over 6 percent, sufficient to balance the budget. In an introductory Q&A, Dean Jay Light addressed the impact of the global economic crisis on HBS. He noted that the... View Details

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

01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based organization's annual budget was $17,000;... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis

research suggests that planning for CEO succession should be part and parcel of the way a company is managed. Grooming potential leaders is a process that takes years. It’s not an ad hoc event. The key elements in this process are the way a company recruits; how it is... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor

“bottom-line” assessment of “right-wing” HBS graduate President George W. Bush (MBA ’75): growing economy, narrowing budget deficit, and no jihadist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11. I understand the rationale for the Kennedy School as a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
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C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

(UNC) tenure were his appointment of fifteen new chancellors and other university leaders; a systemwide enrollment increase of more than 27,000 students, to a total of 150,000 at the university's sixteen campuses; the near doubling of the university's annual operating... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

01 Jun 2000
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The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits

enterprise. According to Marino, the operating budget for the 2000 production went "well into the six-figure range." Half of that money came from sponsors, the rest from ticket sales. "This is my Hoover Dam," said Marino. "It is not a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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