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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an...
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John Nordin
important person in my life. That's where environmental issues became important to me." So important, in fact, that a year before John entered HBS, he founded his own company, Flipswitch, a web application for solar companies that...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
policies we require recruiting partners to offer two interview dates for interviews that do not conflict with class-time. O – OCI (On-Campus Interviews). If you would like HBS to help you coordinate logistics View Details
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All Industries
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow HBS faculty member Mike Luca had...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
proposal for an Open Profile Standard [OPS] that is widely supported by the online industry." OPS is based on the concept that users should get something of value for their...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
in its performance. The case illustrates the power of a great leader. All of the reforms Ghosn implemented were originally proposed by middle managers who had been working for Nissan View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most...
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- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
multimillion-dollar proposal in a pigskin binder, considered vile in many Muslim cultures. He was unceremoniously tossed out and his company blacklisted from working with Saudi businesses. But the differences can be much more subtle,...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty by Aneel Karnani (DBA 1981) (Palgrave Macmillan) Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with current approaches to reducing...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
hastily drawn that morning, were debated. The discussion was pointed but not strident. . . . A motion to request that May 12 be designated an open day for an organized program directed to the issues was...
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Ted Anthony
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
executive at Time Warner's RoadRunner cable modem group, Farman-Farmaian had been struggling to find a specialty sofa when the idea for BuyerWeb first hit him: Why not set up an Internet site where he could View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
others.” The 52 students in his cohort spent eight days in May working on challenges proposed by nine partner organizations in Mexico City. The trip was the culmination of the yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
construction, the HBS community will find most of what it needs in the temporary Baker Library at Kresge Hall. Some materials and collections will require advance requests for access. “We have carefully...
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- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In Mumbai the $3 billion public-private Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) proposes free housing and services for Dharavi's longtime residents to relocate from their ad-hoc...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
the proceedings. Photos by Stuart Cahill For the hundreds of MBA students and their families assembled on a hot and steamy Baker Lawn last June, Class Day 2004 was an occasion for mixed emotions. Several of...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into operational principles View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
included in what is going on. There is a lot of advice for managers about how to promote inclusion in an organization. Laura Sherbin and Ripa Rashid remind us as leaders to practice inclusion on an everyday basis by “ensuring that team...
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by James Heskett