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- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
NFTE program for India, dubbing it I Create. Aruna interviewed dozens of Indian entrepreneurs, seeking role models for Indian youth, and used 12 of their stories to write the book Everyday Entrepreneurs: The Harbingers of Prosperity and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
even this is a relatively small slice of the country. More than 1.5 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As I am writing this, the official military fatality count is approaching 4,000. But a survey last year by The Pew... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
embrace capitalism” to an extent neither Levitt nor anyone else could foresee. Indeed, Abdelal observed, such unpredictability and change are inherent in globalization. And as Abdelal and Tedlow write in their paper, “Globalization is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond... View Details
- 18 Apr 2016
- News
Copy Success
(Xerox Corp.) (Xerox Corp.) Joe Wilson (MBA 1933) made Xerox a brand so recognizable its name is also an everyday verb. In the process Wilson, who passed away in 1971, turned around a dying company and left a legacy of leadership that continues to inspire Xerox... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
extensive involvement with a San Diego-based organization that develops aid programs for the poor in Mexico, and the establishment of a family foundation that gives grants in the areas of poverty, education, and religion. "There came a point where I knew I wanted to do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
volcanic tempers. During the decade after World War II when the Watsons ran the company at the same time (“It could hardly be said they were working as a team, running the firm together,” writes Tedlow), “the impact of both their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
resurgence” has metamorphosed into a death march of Islamic civilization, Allawi writes in his recent book, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization (Yale University Press). Although Islam as a religious faith nurturing millions of believers... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the first Sarofim-Rock incumbent. (Later, the Classes of 1954, 1960, and 1961 would also fund chairs in entrepreneurship.) Stevenson has completely reworked the Starting New Ventures course into today's elective course Entrepreneurial Management, View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
week of school. Pranks 1977H had a group of us who wrote “risqué chain stories” during Accounting; something about a mink posing strap and a Viking helmet springs to mind. Each person would write perhaps three or four sentences, the last... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Smiths managed to construct a modest home and saved about $140,000 by overseeing the project themselves. Halfway through the process, he reports, “I realized, ŒI've got to write this down.' ” The results were The Owner-Builder Book: How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy by Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979) Twenty Lane Media LLC Toplyn reveals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
to dub him “an intellectual venture capitalist.” (courtesy Office of John McArthur) I met Dean McArthur only once, but he made an indelible memory. I had recently graduated from the MBA Program and, in addition to my day job, began View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
organization that you already know you want to change. Let’s start there: If you could change anything about your culture, what would it be? Is there more than one thing on the list? Take a few minutes to think about it and then write... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
professorial zeal to researching, understanding, and reflecting upon estate and end-of-life planning, writing papers and delivering speeches on these topics. “We can either make our own end-of-life decisions or avoid doing so by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
new book, When You Say Yes but Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies and What You Can Do about It, Perlow examines the consequences of avoiding conflict in the workplace. “We often associate conflict with its negative forms,” View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Pledge of Allegiance
years, emperors have been lying, saying, ‘I will not take over your land, and I will not raise taxes.’ So write it down. Have a witness and put it on the web and keep it there.” View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
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Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio on the ‘Principles’ of Tough Love
than 3 million times. This month, Dalio will release a much-buzzed about book expanding on his tough-love philosophy, Principles: Life & Work. “Underneath what may seem like a clinical, emotionless approach is something different and far more poignant,” the New York... View Details