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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
create a startup. But it always felt good because you were always in the unchartered territories, things that have never been done. What has changed since then? I think a lot right now, you have almost a unicorn coming out every week, if...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web like never before." Education is...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman
approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual Shares Corporation, which was run...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
to occur so that fans feel safe and trust the property that's bringing them into that venue, so that they'll come back. And we've already seen some fans who are like, "I'm never coming back." And some fans are saying, "Well, if you do the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
The second 90 percent that we are ignoring is the true cost of operating our buildings: the people inside. Most companies spend as much as 90 percent of their budgets on human resources, a figure largely driven by their salaries and...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver
books. How do you get out of the Bronx? Being good at science. I was valedictorian of my class at Bronx Science and that was the ticket to Harvard, a school I had only visited by watching the movie Love Story. As an undergrad, I realized...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
clinicians need to take responsibility for letting health care get out of their hands and help right the ship in the way health-care systems are being managed. Physicians can not absolve themselves and simply get mad when finance managers...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation of scholars with his deep insights about View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent
the United States to see what courses are being offered in the field of women and leadership. And whenever I taught the Managing Human Capital course, I surveyed my female students to ask: If I taught a course on women and leadership,...
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- 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?
on making vegetables irresistible for people who love eating meat. Julia: One thing that I would say is that when you walk in, it feels different right away. So you walk in and you see the menu of the day and then someone comes up and...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
Her Ambitions Margaret Glover—In the Right Environment Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks—Keeping to the Middle Lane Gwen Shuster-Haynes—The Write Stuff John Weber—Newly Energized Monica Dodi Entertaining Her Ambitions On the "stresses-of-life"...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,”...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Lighting the Way
teams is the ability to develop future leaders. I love to mentor all ages and backgrounds because I personally get great satisfaction in watching others develop into their full potential.” Fueled by their success, she is dedicated to...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she says. “It’s about getting the...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
and a place that valued the environment, he says. “And frankly, it used to be the best place in the world to live or work or retire or come for holidays. So I set my ambitions very high.” Mitsotakis is confident that capital won’t be the constraint to growth. View Details
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Steady as She Goes
observes. For the $17 billion retailer, the dual crises were a reminder that the services the company provides are necessary ones. There were very human moments of fear and panic—when store managers in fire-ravaged New South Wales sent...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt
and alternative energy development. China is capable of steady growth over the coming years and will continue to be a key component of GE's global strategy, he added, provoking a question from one audience member regarding the propriety of doing business in a country...
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