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James Reinhart

resulting in a willing and grateful marketplace. The concept took off. Understanding that a trip to the Post Office is one step too many for busy parents that need to get rid of clothes, thredUP provides a... View Details

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

with the wrong kind of competition, on the wrong things. Instead, we have a zero-sum competition to restrict services, assemble bargaining power, shift the cost to others, or grab more of the revenue versus... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

selling me anything." He said, "We'll buy it anyhow. Just continue to tell me how to make my company better." And what happened, over the next year or two, is that kind of request View Details

31 Jan 2019
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A Global Mission

King Jr. at Selma and spent time at Kolonia Farms, an interracial community in Georgia that was the target of boycotts and violence. “It was a very moving time for me,” DeFehr says now. But when he returned to Canada, he discovered that... View Details

Keywords: April White; human rights

09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

on at the School, and hope to include Dean Datar as well as several other prominent alumni," he says. "We're creating a Centennial Celebration Committee, and we invite our alumni to please join us. This is a once-in-a-hundred-year... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

So, and then, when I got the job, he didn't really explain why. And I don't think he did to the other two in terms of why they didn't. The way I've answered the question over the years is, you know, like, I... View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

technology of vaccine delivery, but also in manufacturing. We saw how many businesses were slowed and nearly grounded as supply chains were interrupted. To that end, Vaxess went vertical and invested in manufacturing. The challenge is... View Details

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

interface on the internet-- I ended up putting together with partners, the fun that seeded Twitter and invested in companies like TweetDeck and other social things, that got me very connected to a very... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Badaracco, Jr., the School's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, sums it up this way: "I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

1980), Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Office of the Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Business Leadership Award, given to Clara Wu Tsai (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

anything like that, of course. Then in the spring I was at a new little company in Cambridge called Tech Built, which had created a design for a partially fabricated house. And there was two-hour special... View Details

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

going to take care of themselves, meaning prescriber limits are coming down, the way that doctors are prescribing is changing, CDC have got guidelines, lawsuits against these pharmaceutical companies and the... View Details

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

cleaner. The business, in other words, was highly fragmented and, because of repeat sales, "an annuity." In combination, those traits held the promise of building... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

Profile

Deborah A. Farrington

from a former HBS section mate who was the CEO of a small California startup named NetLedger. “He said to me `Debby, I know a lot of smart venture capitalists and quite frankly, you’re the only one I... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

entrepreneurs. “In life you learn from the good experiences. and also from the bad.” “In life you learn from the good experiences. and also from the bad.” “He’s very encouraging, but he also challenges you,” says Marcela Cortina when describing her husband View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

of her own goals. She could suggest to her boss, "Would it be better to have a high-profile male partner on this assignment?" because that would send a stronger signal to the company and public... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

organization’s strategy. "I am early in my career and am looking for a path to becoming a chief sustainability officer or sustainability manager with a company I can align my values with. This class seemed... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Feb 1997
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HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

You've just been asked to relocate from New York City to work on your firm's new operation in Singapore. You have less than a month before the assignment starts, and part of your job will be to acquire suitable permanent View Details

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