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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
HBS, founded the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to set standards for the professionalization of business education. Years passed with no consensus, but the Great Depression revived interest in setting...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
Americas. Among the top players in the U.S. toy market, LEGO stands out because it is a privately held company that has been owned by the same Danish family since it was founded in 1932. Unlike most in this highly competitive group of toy...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation
with Euronext to manage a stock exchange in Monaco powered by blockchain. “The Prince said that he wants us to be the founding nation for progress, so we’re doing all we can to make sure the next generation will be attracted to Monaco,”...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Sep 2019
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Turning Point: Step Change
week, and the company and I decided we wanted to do something to help the locals. So we went into a town called Ferizaj and visited schools to see if they needed help getting started again after years of conflict. We found a mostly empty...
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- 22 Sep 2016
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Words and Pictures
sociocultural anthropology at UNC, Chapel Hill, and founded wdydwyd? — an online meme through which 2 million people have answered the question, Why do you do what you do? Some alumni have added new reflections on their original...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages. Lorsch View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
applications, particularly in the food industry. Although a stroke in 1992 left Murray with extensive left-side paralysis, he can often be found mending fence on his farm. He is excited to be undertaking an ozone-based treatment for...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
organizational problems in large firms. Soon their interest in managerial issues outweighed their interest in economics, and they found themselves with a new course. Today, a much changed course with more than six hundred students...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
free and subsidized tickets. “As a mission-driven organization, we want to make performances available to the widest group of patrons possible,” says Hodges. “The range of pricing in a given house can be large.” Last year was the company’s biggest box office since its...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
events provided a teachable moment regarding our role as global citizens and the importance of ending poverty." "We know that all the might in the world won't end the war on terrorism," added Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps International, an NGO View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
ventures—brings together many of them to discuss critical issues they’re facing, and faculty are a part of those conversations. Our alumni who have founded and scaled successful companies have been very willing to come back and be a part...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life
University of Southern California, in a book called High Flyers, that I finally found a theory that could help people make better hiring decisions. To begin with, McCall has a very different view of the right stuff—and it explains why so...
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- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Partners: “The list came out at 9 a.m. on the East Coast. I live in LA and so at 6 a.m. my time I woke up to congratulatory calls and text. This was way better than my usual alarm.” Anish Pathipati, founding director, North Island: “I...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages....
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- 18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change
out how business can do things better. This is a major international problem, and it will need a framework of policies to make a big difference.” Pat Coady, an investment banker and environmentalist who founded the Northern Virginia Land...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya Khilnani (MBA 2019) View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective
reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some...
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Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 29 Jun 2016
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Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
and the business of movies, both concepts of which were totally new to the trio. “We didn’t go into this as a vanity project,” observes Munger. “We did our due diligence first, knowing there are enormous risks involved but that they’re calculated risks.” What they...
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