Digital Media Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

less, attractive. Hardware and software are complements. So are hot dogs and mustard, cars and car loans, cable television and TV Guide, the Internet and high-capacity digital phone lines, catalogues and overnight delivery services - even... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

celebrated and learned of their new rights as citizens. As Black Texans moved to other parts of the country, they brought their traditions along with them, and Juneteenth continued to grow and develop. Juneteenth’s powerful spirit has... View Details

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

the world. How’s this possible? So I went in and they said, well, yes, you haven’t been back in domestic investment banking that long so we felt this was the right decision. I thought, well they’re wrong. And I went to some of my other... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think it's okay to want to dent the universe, but I think it's best if you're an entrepreneur to think about something that's in the present that needs to be solved right... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details

02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change

view video clips of her numerous national media appearances and read blog entries and other writings that embody her personal life philosophy to live without fear. A sought-after motivational speaker, Linn was also working on a book at... View Details

12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement

and new media coverage further inspire a broad spectrum of stakeholders to make board diversity a priority. “When we launched this, we wanted it to be a movement,” emphasizes Gerstner, who notes that the idea for the Board Challenge was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine APRIL 15 As the reality of the conflict in Ukraine became clear in March, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) went searching... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

When you become an entrepreneur, a woman entrepreneur, you basically are entering the single digits club, and it's a shock. It was a shock to me to go to meetings or dinners or whatever the case may be and just constantly be surrounded by... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Feb 2022
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Turning Point: Ready or Not

connection to your heritage until the oldest person in your family passes away. In that sense, my grandmother’s death last September, at the age of 92, was a turning point for me. I had already lost my father; right before lockdown, I was... View Details

Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership

01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

industries to truly be off-the-grid in some ways: Not digital-first, not adhering to regular market forces—because it's sports. It's live. And I think now the silver lining for this industry is that opportunity to move away from calling it a sports industry. This is a... View Details

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

into a digital platform that not only offers video lessons, but educational tools and tests for teachers, students, and parents through its Khan Academy Districts program, which at last count was in use by more than 280 districts across... View Details

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

the CEO, and ideally I become the COO over the course of the process if I hire the right director. And what I mean by that is the producer starts out with the original idea, puts together the whole team, so it starts out with the idea, in... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

imagine. You’ve got the credentials, use them. So when there’s a setback, stand back. Use it as an opportunity to think about what you really would like to do. Don’t jump into the next thing right away. Think about it and then go ahead... View Details