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22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Aug 2002
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For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

opportunity amid countless obstacles. The sale of ed tech products has been on the rise in recent years—with an estimated $150 billion in global expenditures on digital learning in 2018, a number predicted,... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

includes webinars on student loans and personal finance decisions as well as limited individual appointments with a financial advisor. Chad Losee: In conversations I have had with alumni, some are concerned... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

related to growth and efficiency. In a variety of case studies, students in the MBA elective Managing the Future of Work consider technological trends reshaping today’s workplace and actions business leaders can take. In particular, cases focusing View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

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

the midst of court-ordered desegregation. (Of that time he is often quoted as saying, "Our concern should be the quality of the school at the end of the bus ride, rather than the length of the ride itself.") In 1982, North Carolina... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details

01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the... View Details

26 May 2016
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Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Union College 2012 Named Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios After two years working on the Ivory Soap account at Procter & Gamble, Alan Horn was approached by Hollywood... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age

ethnographer by training, researched the connection between leadership and innovation for her 2014 book Collective Genius, which focused primarily on startups built from the ground up to be agile. To better understand the challenges faced... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green

with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR)... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, with a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He is a faculty research fellow in the National Bureau of... View Details

16 Aug 2022
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HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

was accepted by HBS, I decided to encourage other Japanese to take on big challenges abroad to change this situation,” he says. “I will never forget when I found out I had been awarded the fellowship. At that time, the funding View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2015
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Complements to the Case Method

collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are generated that include balance... View Details

26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

third-largest telecommunications company in the world. Today, Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s most successful companies, with more than 30,000 employees. In addition to Airtel, its diverse concerns... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

honest feedback on the group launch session—what they feel optimistic and concerned about. She asks each person about personal interests, what they considered their strengths to be, where they want to... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below,... View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Generosity Multiplied

since a bit of tension motivates concerned donors to act. Perhaps the best-known of these drives is the annual Christmas Challenge, which opens on Giving Tuesday and lasts for View Details