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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
among business schools or among the men and women who apply to them; they assume that all schools and all applicants are basically the same. In fact, business schools are quite different from each other, and Harvard probably is even more... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
are probably a dozen different things that I work hard on that have a direct impact on young people and the quality of their lives. What are some of the other issues you're involved in? I fight for consumer and business issues. I'm always... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
of coffee warm at one’s desk. Running the company inspired Hamilton to pursue his MBA at Harvard. “I realized I liked the business aspect of things; I liked selling,” he says. “I’m probably not the best design engineer in the world, so I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
about the surprise and delight of being served. One thing I’m looking forward to is returning to New York City, where I spent a lot of time after college. There are a number of hole-in-the-wall places that I’m excited to get back to, partly because it means they’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
organize a seven-to-a-side tournament, a kind of abbreviated form of the game. And would you believe it, we won! Our first tournament victory. When I walked up to get that rather pathetic-looking trophy—which probably cost us $5 from the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Morrell: Now, the interest that you've had in living a sort of quantified life, your first year out of HBS, can you talk about what prompted it? Grana: I think, as a lot of people probably have, HBS is sort of a break from the real world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
moving off the shelf fast enough to yield $1 million, you probably have a consumer-marketing problem more than a financing problem. Do you know how well your product is moving off the shelf? It is easy to think you are succeeding based on... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
with individuals from Kraft, Procter & Gamble, or almost any name-brand consumer goods company you’d care to name. Aside from our 99ers, these long-term relationships are probably our most valuable asset that is not on our balance sheet.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
then — as well as that of his classmates — has evolved over time. “At recent reunions,” he notes, “I find we’ve all mellowed and converged, and experienced lots of political, social, and personal changes. So I’m a big believer in HBS, even though when I was there I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
probably win some guests over with your pet-friendly policy, too. People love their pets. When you’re friendly to their pets, it’s like being friendly to their kids. When we opened the Hotel Monaco in Portland, Oregon, we had searchlights... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
floor.” It’s good for a laugh now, but it did make me realize that people often assume things based on gender. I also didn’t wear my wedding band to job interviews because it raised too many questions about plans for a family. It was View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
asked to pay their $20,000 fees even though they are also required to study from home using video they could probably get on YouTube,” he says. “That can’t last.” Alison also now provides free psychometric testing and cognitive skills... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to start their own nonprofit “is... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
raised $93,853 from 421 investors earlier this year largely by pitching the investment to its existing user base. “It’s hard to do due diligence on a private company,” says Hofmann. “If you’re a user you’re probably already convinced of... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
Technology has a way of seeping into our lives. On our first encounter with a microwave, an answering machine, an ATM, a cellular phone, or a video camera, each of these innovations probably seemed foreign, odd, perhaps unnecessary. But... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
of very high highs, and very low lows. And my experience is really trying to balance both sides, and always constantly remember why I'm there. In terms of the highs the food is amazing, the culture is very vibrant. Lagos is probably the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
finalizing the plan with MIT collaborator Tim Tuttle and fellow Class of 2000 teammates Sarah Boatman (now director of strategic marketing) and Robert Dreyer (vice president of engineering). “We probably wouldn’t have pulled any... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
in society different in India than in the West? Expectations concerning business are becoming more like those in the West. Indeed, there is probably a greater requirement of business in India to be engaged in its immediate environment, to... View Details