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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
with some as large as 9,000 square feet, each stocking as many as 25,000 titles. BookHampton owner Carolyn Brody offers just a small selection of games and knickknacks—which View Details
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
“How do I show leadership presence when I’m this exhausted?” Working parents were typically offered platitudes about work-life integration, Dowling realized, which was a shortcoming in talent development that became all the more glaring a...
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April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
theory by constructing a measure of overconfidence, using the indicator of when a CEO exercises his or her stock options. She found a strong connection between executives who habitually hold their options longer and continue to buy View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
cafeteria. My father’s request was breathtaking and anxiety-producing.” Over the next 35 years, Rosenberg would turn Dunkin’ Donuts into a global icon—which last year sold to Inspire Brands for a stunning $11.3 billion. And in this episode of Skydeck, Rosenberg View Details
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
head of the department kept passing me over for the position because we didn't get along. When he finally did offer me the job, I didn't want to take it because I felt he didn't believe in me. Lew Sanders, who is now the chairman of...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Squash vines slow the evaporation of precious moisture and offer a natural barrier to weeds; its spiny foliage also discourages rabbits and raccoons. (Sunflowers are sometimes considered the fourth sister for the protection they provide...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
to my industry—sustainable infrastructure—as a beacon of the immense opportunity to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Clean energy, waste reduction, energy efficiency, green transport, and the circular economy offer the world’s...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
line, took that concept to another level. When his company went public in 1995, Koch made sure that his loyal quaffers (at $15 a share), not Wall Street insiders (at $20), got the best stock price. He attached fliers to his six-packs that...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some noise in the year to come. Meem...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
outlook is murkier, Wall Street's offers aren't so enticing, and the cream of the crop considers offers from other sectors. If 10 percent or fewer of graduating Harvard MBAs opt for careers in financial...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
leaders and academics, the forum identified a number of important challenges, and offered five "key imperatives" for progress—from making value the central objective to decentralizing care delivery. Several HBS alumni and faculty members...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S....
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
that it offered a fast, low-cost way to distribute his handiwork. With guidance from his wife, Jan, who retired from teaching in 2002, Cook built a virtual Vocabulary University: www.vocabulary.com. A whimsical faculty of cartoon...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Administration. “The person who can go out and find the diamond gets the highest return.” Once they do, students present their idea—a stock pitch—to an actual hedge fund manager who is invited to each class to View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
in Economic Sciences for his work on the valuation of stock options, had held the George Fisher Baker Professorship of Business Administration at HBS since 1988. The John and Natty McArthur University Professorship was established after...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
a PR stumble during its too-sheer yoga pant debacle. “I think there is a lot of market share to be had around what she’s doing,” says former Starbucks colleague Wendy Collie, the president and CEO of the West Coast–based grocer New Seasons Market, which View Details
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
versus telling during interviews, what you can learn from politicians, and negotiating the right salary, the authors offer suggestions for advanced career management. The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma by Gurcharan...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. The Value of a ‘Portable’...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
covered everything from the state of the U.S. stock market, to work-life balance, to international capital markets. The spirited conversation was one of two sessions held on campus that aired on the Charlie Rose show in the spring. Rose,...
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