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- 01 Sep 2017
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Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
and two other amazing, true stories NEW Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad “There’s so much unresolved about Miami’s cocaine coming-of-age. I found the address where the Cold War crashed into the war on drugs crashed into the cocaine wars...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential. The study View Details
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April White
- 01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes
circumstances under which companies can, in terms of the environment, most successfully create value or lessen business risk. (An example of value created and risk reduced might be found with a newly developed, disease-resistant plant...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
principles we espouse for taking control of one's life - steps such as being proactive, putting first things first, and establishing clearly what you want to achieve. The universality of these principles resonates with people. Which habit have you View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Answering the Call
goal of giving his two children the spiritual education he had come to appreciate in his own formative years. When he began teaching Sunday school, however, he soon found that "teaching those kids was more important to me than what I was...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers
movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Jan 2015
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Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Yang (MBA 1976). And on January 12, almost 150 alumni in Hong Kong met at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong to listen to Dean Nohria, Professor Esty, Campaign Managing Director Cahill, Global Leaders Circle Founding Member Victor Fung (PhD 1971),...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After HBS I went to work in consumer packaged goods marketing at...
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- 04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
What I found out from that experience in Boston was that my sectionmates still liked me for who I was. A couple of them gave me some pretty good advice and it wasn't so much what I had, but who I was, that counted. I would encourage you...
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- 06 Oct 2020
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Clearing the Path to Citizenship
consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites
“We mustn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. It’s a case of two cheers for capitalism. It may not be perfect, but we haven’t found anything that is better.” —Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), Cofounder & former Chairman, Apax Partners...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States...
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- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Optimize for people. Many variables will influence your career choices after HBS—geography, industry, function, company, manager, salary, equity, etc. Sometimes there are correlations between these variables, like high-growth companies tend to have stronger managers....
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
attendants. Founded in 1971, Southwest has "literally transformed the U.S. airline industry, particularly since reaching critical mass in the early 1990s," assert the authors. Known for its low fares and high reliability in short-distance...
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- 25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
consequences. “HBS taught me the most important skill: to learn,” he says. Also at Soldiers Field, he managed to sit next to Kim Frock (MBA 1987) on his first day. The pair, who found they had much in common, will soon celebrate their...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Batteries and Chocolates
yet another networking retreat. It's about fixing the organization—recognizing a diversity of skills and attributes, measuring them in a concrete way, and rewarding people accordingly. Recently, I found myself requesting a favor of one of...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper...
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- 15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar
radical change. And finally, we needed to know more about the commitment from our Myanmar counterparts and the quality of their collaboration. Morrell: What questions did you ask during that meeting? Brunell: We really weren't going to know what kind of ground we were...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
daughter's umbilical cord. Once discarded at birth, those few ounces of blood left in the umbilical cord and placenta are now known to be a rich source of stem cells, which make new blood and immune-system cells. In 1993, Fisher, who holds a bachelor's degree in...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts and travel to New York to see the Philharmonic. It was still a hobby then, albeit an important one. But when he got into the working world, he found he was spending more time analyzing scores than...
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