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31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

occur often enough to reach as many mouths as possible. He designed the organization like a startup, built to scale, with chapters of “Robins” around the world who team up with restaurants and other organizations in their local cities and communities. View Details

09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

platform he launched in 2007. Alison’s first six courses were among the first MOOCs—massive open online courses—to take advantage of the reach of the internet, debuting even before the term was coined. Now, 14 years later, Alison offers some 2,000 different courses... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2007
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Looking back; looking forward

leading thinkers from across the globe coming here to engage in a dialogue on three important topics: leadership in the 21st century, globalization, and the evolution of market capitalism. In addition, faculty will lead discussions on a... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

federal policy would really be helpful to create a uniform landscape for the capital markets and the technologies to respond to.” Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002) and VP of infrastructure, energy and environment at the Business Roundtable—which... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net

it is the way people will adapt to and use that technology and the way firms will mobilize it to do smart business. As Rayport points out, "Internet-based businesses encounter the same management and marketing challenges that traditional... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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A Message from Dean Clark

promising distance learning initiative that will enrich the prematriculation process for incoming students. In Executive Education, the Program for Global Leadership now includes distance learning modules on global financial markets and... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that threatened to take market share away from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? Says Robert Dolan, the author of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

tantalizing glimpses of HBS, the 1980s Wall Street market rally, temporary insanity, and true love. The Cathedral Builder: A Biography of J. Irwin Miller by Charles E. Miller Rentschler (MBA 1964) (AuthorHouse) Rentschler has based this... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit

company, explains the former American Express marketing executive, an online firm "must delay profitability to build brand equity." In other ways, however, doing business on the Web is unique. Like mountain climbing, Carpenter says, it's... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening both our dominant position in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1999
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New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance

topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding partner of Emerging View Details

01 Jun 2007
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The Show Goes On

improve the sightlines from the sides of the auditorium. I hope our marketing department does a good job of filling those extra seats. Do you have a background in show biz? I loved the movies when I was growing up in Virginia, and was... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)

I was scared to death that everyone would be smarter than me. And they were. On the first day of class we were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene. Then Professor Ted Levitt ate me alive. I used some View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

18 May 2011
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Man with a Plan

needs was infusing more capital into the business to help us manage the financial side of our growth. The second was a marketing case about Perdue Foods. The strategy that Frank Perdue initiated really resonated with me. We took a page... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to management problems. One team... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the author shares her years of... View Details

13 Jan 2011
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