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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
export. With globalization, supply chains are lengthening and that means growth for railroads and other transportation modes.” According to the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, if...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
engage in global cooperation to get these planes done. Another lesson was IT systems. We lost visibility of the supply chain because our systems weren’t good enough to keep track of manufacturing activity....
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- 19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
class and I see all the faces,/Tired from reading all those crazy cases,/I think . . . it must be Friday./After many long nights and not much sleep,/ Struggling through Finance and FRC,/It's that . . . time a day, put your books away./Get...
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- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans...
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- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Admiral Norvell Ward, who commanded a fleet of 52 supply ships deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, supporting US troops in Vietnam. It was there that he observed a tragedy that only added to a series of hints at what would become his later...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
prepared every day—and that we had better be prepared too. It was an inspired instance of leading by example and one that has long transcended my days at the School. Know Your Market Steve Frenkiel (MBA 2007) I WAS AN ENGINEER BY BACKGROUND, and thus naturally...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
homes are financed with mortgages; most people still inherit their homes, build them by hand, or buy them with cash. Obtaining clear title to land and gaining access to basic services such as sanitation, water, and electricity can pose...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
1968) Forefront Books As the son of Max Feldman, the self-proclaimed “sodbuster from Omaha” and brilliant founder of the successful fashion shoe store chain Fratelli Massimo, Josh Feldman has always known his destiny, working alongside...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
sprains, and the like,” Herzlinger explains. “The charge is around $69, so uninsured people can go there instead of to the emergency room, which has long waits and charges much more. And with CVS’s chain ownership involving hundreds of...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
inward at their operations, and then to their supply chain,” Toffel said. “But another key lever is public policy. What are we doing to foster—or undermine—climate policy?” Approximately 100 people gathered for the discussion entitled...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
opportunity to learn brand-building and strategies from four top brand leaders. This year’s panel featured: Bahram Akradi, CEO, chairman, and founder of Life Time, a chain of fitness clubs focused on total wellness with a resort...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
addressed topics such as financing small and medium businesses during the pandemic, managing through crisis, and understanding the new normal. On June 10, Carlos Mario Giraldo, CEO of Grupo Exito, a leading supermarket View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy View Details
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
returns over the last four years have caused this surge, which means, he says, that "people have lots of opportunities to finance projects, either through venture capitalists, angels, or corporations." But, as the saying goes, what goes...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and pizza slices — at View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
anticorruption benchmarks as determined by third-party data from organizations such as the International Finance Corporation, the World Health Organization, and the Heritage Foundation, among others. "It's become a valuable Good...
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