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- 01 Dec 2000
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The Birds and Bees in China
The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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Putting a spell on theatergoers
Alan Horn (MBA 1971) has brought a touch of magic to the big screen and record-breaking numbers to the bottom line as chairman of Walt Disney Studios and former president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment. At... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A game-changer for migrant students
his community, inspires him to commit a portion of his time and income to the cause. “Increasing the number of migrant students who become entrepreneurs, investors, or managers,” he says, “will have a game-changing effect on the... View Details
William G. Park
After successfully running his father's steel concern, Black Diamond Steel, Park assembled the Crucible Steel Company from a number of acquisitions, continuing his family's success in the industry. View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 24 Apr 2014
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Building a business that provides opportunities for others
Patrick O'Connor (MBA 1983), who heads a family-owned real eastate service company, discusses the responsibility of building a company that employs a large number of people. (Published April 2014) View Details
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microsoft will return items with at least five mentions of Microsoft Note: n is any number between 1 and 50. Atleast works only in Search: Free-Text/Indexing, and not in Track. same vodafone same... View Details
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Bismah Rahmat
question – the GDP of Burkina Faso or the science behind cosmic inflation – and unequivocally, he’d know the answer. He did mental math faster than I could punch numbers into a calculator. In my father’s final days, his brain could no... View Details
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Founder Launch - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Founder Launch Course Number 1607 Senior Lecturer Reza Satchu Professor Shai Bernstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper 1676 Founder Mindset is recommended but not required to take this course. Coming soon View Details
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Carrefour and sales. For example, retail sales posted by Carrefour. The terms can appear in any order. Use with numbers 1-500. near1 is assumed if numbers are omitted. Truncation telecom* Any... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
choice of non-pension assets or capital structure. In the late 1990s, as the focus of tax-deferred investing drifted away from defined benefit plans and toward individually managed retirement accounts, a number of people, including John... View Details
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Avi Kremer
prize to identify a treatment that leads to a 25 percent extension in survival rates. “After eight years, in which we have raised over $10 million,” says Kremer, who lives in his native Israel and communicates via Skype and adaptive technologies, “most of the big drug... View Details
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Prizes & Benefits | New Venture Competition
encourage more HBS graduates to become involved in social enterprises and to support their efforts. Resources & Benefits The social enterprise track of the student New Venture Competition offers a number of resources and benefits: A... View Details
- 05 Oct 2022
- News
Inside the Chip Shortage
says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most are manufactured by a small... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
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Fighting income inequality with early education reform
been extraordinary. In the school’s first year of operation, 35 percent of the students began the school year as average. By June, that number had jumped to 53 percent. “We have four years of research and a demonstrated track record of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
A study by HBS assistant professor Rafael Di Tella (with Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and Robert MacCulloch of the London School of Economics) finds that when a country is in a recession, the number of... View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Innovating in Health Care Course Number 2185 Nancy R. McPherson Professor Regina Herzlinger Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits Paper/project Enrollment: limited to eighty students, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
enhance one's BATNA. Sebenius cites the example of Kennecott Copper Corporation, which a number of years ago was faced with what the company felt might be an eventual government takeover of its mines in Chile. Simply continuing a narrow,... View Details
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- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
organizations in western Michigan, sprang up when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. Latino migrants and immigrants began to move into the area for agricultural jobs. “LEDA, initially, was established to get people to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship courses have evolved from being all case-based to include those that are learning-by-doing, project-based courses. That’s particularly important for training future entrepreneurs so that they can practice the necessary skills. What has also expanded is... View Details
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John R. Hegeman
Hegeman expanded Metropolitan Life from a struggling company into a nationwide concern. He increased the number of insurance policies from 10,000 in 1870 to nearly 20 million in 1918. During his presidency, the company’s income increased... View Details
Keywords: Finance