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01 Dec 2000
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Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue

Sue is a very versatile 67-million-year-old tyrant lizard king — or Tyrannosaurus rex, as most of us know her. Her two hundred bones have been carefully assembled in the main entrance of Chicago's Field Museum in a manner so that each one can be removed for scientific... View Details

Keywords: McDonald's; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

01 Mar 2004
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Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden (though she likes to do that,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

15 Nov 2011
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750 World Wonders and counting

Main Wilson: It's a wonderful world. A slide show of World Wonders Photos copyright Andrew Main Wilson—World of Wonders Like so many businessmen, Andrew Main Wilson (AMP 156, 1999) is readying himself for a trip abroad, this time to Taiwan. When he arrives, he’ll hit... View Details

Keywords: photography; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

01 Jun 2007
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A Classics Enterprise

Forbes magazine reported (January 29, 2007). Over 700 pages long, studded with clear, helpful maps, notes, and appendixes, Strassler’s Thucydides was hailed and embraced by scholars and ordinary readers alike. Shortly after its publication, he began work on a View Details

Keywords: ancient Greece; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same time and who subsequently share View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments

really key.” A few months after Compartamos’s IPO, the longtime friends met for breakfast on the Spangler patio at HBS and discovered they had both been thinking along similar lines: What if we can build more of these companies that serve... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Oct 1999
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The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

In a previous study of companies in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Deshpandé and colleagues from Tuck found that the most successful firms in these diverse countries had remarkably similar corporate... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?

to unscramble “Scrambled State Capitals,” a presumably brute-force analytical exercise that should play to Watson’s strengths. Indeed, in a similar category, “The Northernmost Capital City,” Watson ran the table, answering all five... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2023
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Fostering a Supportive Community

which aims to foster a supportive community where first-generation and low-income students and allies can enjoy the HBS experience together through events and programs. The club collaborates with similar clubs across Harvard University... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally

appeared more similar to India’s and a more logical move than expansion into so many disparate African countries. Mittal begs to differ: “Africa’s improving political climate, encouraging social and economic development indicators, and a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

22 Feb 2022
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Turning Point: Ready or Not

pandemic that the virus would find her; yet she had always taken life by the reins. My grandmother had said she wanted to pass in her own house. She did, and it also felt like part of her plan that she passed calmly, on a sultry Sunday morning so View Details

Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership

01 Dec 2008
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NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

to host a similar event again next fall. To read summaries of the summit sessions, visit www.hbscny.org. Click on “Social Enterprise Summit Summaries.” Clubs Go All Out for Community Service Projects To mark the School’s Centennial, 68... View Details

14 Dec 2017
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Making Movies Is a Class Act

the same section, solving hundreds of cases, provided us with a similar view of assessing mystery stories!” The lasting friendships Wood and Abrams formed at HBS extended to a network of other alums eager to help bring the clever... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2000
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Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

He later took on similar responsibilities in the Pacific until the war ended. In 1946, Mace returned to HBS and one year later created what was probably the first course in entrepreneurship to be taught at any school in the country.... View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Getting New Ideas off the Ground

if we would help him put a computer in the home of every employee worldwide. “We did that with Ford, and then the next day in the front page of the New York Times announced a similar deal with Delta Airlines for their nearly 90,000... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)

business or the military A case study in responsibility—in business or the military Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Lance Batchelor Similarities between... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)

business or the military Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Lance Batchelor Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and the boardroom View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

09 Apr 2019
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Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT)—a research nonprofit that aims to accelerate treatments and cures for food allergies—with Tom and Kim Hall, another couple whose daughter lives with a similar diagnosis. Their first step was... View Details