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01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

run a successful multinational IT services firm where employees are treated like an extended family and strategy emerges from the bottom up? Those are the key leadership questions posed by Professor David Garvin’s 2010 case, “Zensar: The... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

his talents in a smaller operation. He became president of Custom-Made Packaging, Inc., working out a financing deal that he gradually converted into a majority stake. Within seven years, he had turned the firm around and sold it to... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

Kubacki (MBA 2000) (Wiley) The authors explain how competitive selling is as much a matter of politics, customer value, and strategy as it is a management science. Based on data from a comprehensive sales survey and reviews of over 50,000... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study... View Details

Keywords: April White

31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

Institute, Joe Fuller. Fuller's guest in this episode is Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (MBA 2015), Chancellor of Reach University and CEO and cofounder of teacher staffing firm Craft Education System. Reach offers accredited, teacher... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The biotech... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

question was how to do it. At Indian electronics firm HCL Technologies, incoming CEO Vineet Nayar inherited a once-great technology company that had lost its way by the time he took over in 2005. The company had steadily lost market share... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

What intrigued you about the pay-what-you-want (PWYW) model? It’s very unusual for a firm or a seller to completely relinquish pricing power to their customers. Typically consumers encounter a price, and then they decide whether or not... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims

for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning CBS news correspondent. Bonita... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives contend, consumers should pay depending on how much View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information

IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and data about the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop

some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing director at the global consulting... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2018
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For the Greater Good

John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) is president of the investment firm Paulson & Co. and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he offers his views on the nature and role of philanthropy as a means to have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Apr 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

recommendations for developing a strategy for alumni lifelong learning. The group is building on work begun three years ago, as well as gathering current input - including data from the executive education program and the HBS Publishing... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data... View Details

29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner

in the ranks of investors. She also knew that some firms were seeking to diversify their partnerships without addressing underlying structural problems. “Partner” did not always mean check-writing abilities or a voice on the investment... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

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