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- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
struggled with, specifically? Words, phrases, communication points. And how did you get over them? AL: So many. I had so many struggles. So, I mean, there's lots of sounds that are present in English that] just do not exist in Albanian.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
and - much as in word processing - efficiently, with minimal keystrokes." Bricklin made good use of the School's computer resources as he struggled to germinate the seed that would grow into today's... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
e-mail signatures also include the chant acronym, IGTBISE. One sectionmate whose name is Beau (rhymes with “faux” as in “faux pas”) was accidentally called “Byoo” (as in the first part of the word... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
produces no marketing materials, and finds his clients the old-fashioned way: through word of mouth. Charan can rarely be found in his office in Dallas, where his two assistants organize his hectic schedule... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
years older than me. It certainly seemed like a much greater age difference back in 1962–1963 when I had the pleasure of taking his course. I just remember a very personable and easygoing (the Yiddish word... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage company is much more along the lines of “I just don’t know if any of my assumptions are correct.” Use very simple words when describing your company. As an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
composed of “propaganda written in white-hot anger with words tumbling and stumbling all over the page.” ...Several chemical companies threatened legal action. Velsicol Chemical Company, maker View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
2001) reported. Without speaking a word of Spanish, he set out for Mexico City and found that the theaters there were indeed "the worst — they were old decrepit buildings that would never operate in the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using storytelling to transform the retail experience
Stories make sales. That’s the philosophy of Jennifer Lee Koss (AB 2001, MBA 2008), cofounder of BRIKA, an online shop for modern and elevated craft. BRIKA (from fabricá, the Spanish View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
development in our culture and our society that is going to change the world," said Clark, who backed up his words with an invitation to hold the event at HBS again next fall. On the first full day of the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym G.I.R.L.” In late 2016,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
Thomas Murphy (MBA 1949) A cold call during Thomas Murphy’s first year convinced him to make the most of his Harvard Business School experience. When a professor called on a few students, including Murphy, with a question about the case,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
the future.” Spoken by the leader of one of America’s oldest companies and backed up by history, those words are something to build on, as the Kirlin Company has done through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
word — to grill them about their tastes, buying habits, and favorite brands — [Zaltman] seeks to converse directly with their brains instead,” the Times observed (February 23, 2002). The Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
could plan and I could do multiple things which they in their illiteracy were helpless to do. “So I acquired a piece of land and put together the money and I built a school. And word had gotten around that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and data about the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Mark Shuttleworth, founder, Here Be Dragons Venture Capital and Thawte Consulting; Papa Madiaw Ndiaye, director, AIG-African Infrastructure Fund “For Africans, the word ‘international’ must begin to include other African countries, not... View Details