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- 04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
credit: Library of Congress / Dorothea Lange READ MORE Hi, this is Akilah Rogers. I graduated in 2009, companies were rescinding offers, and the only companies that were hiring were investment banking, consulting, and CPG. It was a really tough time and people were...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
on September 14, when the campus community came together for a noontime memorial service honoring those lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Under gray skies, a steady rain fell on students, faculty, and staff members who stood...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
fans if not necessarily the owners; of the five teams with the highest payrolls in baseball, four made it to the final playoff round of four." As for the public, it seems cranky and less inclined to go the extra mile to support a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains, "it taught me an intuitive feel...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
case sets forth various proposals for increasing its capacity. In considering change, the importance of the organization’s close-knit culture — built around quality service, attention to patients, and an...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
studies (see sidebar). I recently had a chance to talk with Nohria about his formative years, the opportunities he sees ahead for the School, and his views on the role of business in society. What follows is an edited version of that...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is given View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to...
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Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
company. He convinced his advisor that because of Carpé’s work studying high-altitude cosmic rays for Bell Labs, the expedition fit the School’s requirements. Following the successful expedition to the top of Mount Bona, Moore View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable operating principle View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes...
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