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26 Oct 2009
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Khan Academy began in 2004 as a family favor: To help his teenaged cousins understand a few math concepts, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan (MBA 2003) offered after-school math tutoring via phone calls and explainer videos. A decade later, Khan Academy has become an... View Details

Keywords: William Weber

05 Jul 2018
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Henry Kissinger's Lessons for Business Negotiators

13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance

By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two well-regarded K–12 private... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

a flight to abstractions, resulting in few business-specific decision criteria for Enron executives. Along the way Enron lost track of its ideals. This loss of ideals reveals the most important lessons of the Enron story — that financial... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

09 Nov 2016
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6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

08 Dec 2009
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Business lessons from history

11 May 2010
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Lessons learned, insights shared

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

And so I think that's how we've been able to move the line with a lot of our operators. Morrell: Was this a big lesson internally for McDonald's? Cunningham: Yeah, I think it was. And it's allowed us to do other things since then that... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

08 Nov 2013
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Lessons In Leadership – State-Owned Enterprises

08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes

wasn't. So what was needed is really more of a Rupert Murdoch, take-charge leader. And that's not me. I'm a reflective adviser. I'm a thoughtful person. I'm not somebody that enjoys managing in that scale. So I was just not designed for that. So that was really the... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Lessons from a Megacity

The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students who traveled to Argentina and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

07 Sep 2011
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Lessons Learned from Skydeck

Keywords: cartoons; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

09 Dec 2012
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Lessons from corporate America

03 May 2012
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Clay Christensen's Life Lessons

22 Apr 2011
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Shakespeare's Tough Leadership Lessons

19 Feb 2021
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Lessons Learned from Research

03 Apr 2020
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The Lessons We Choose

01 Mar 2008
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Lessons from Private Equity

the generally superior returns generated by private equity firms? The answer is delivered in Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use (HBS Press, 2008) by Bain & Co. chair Orit Gadiesh (MBA ’77) and Bain partner Hugh MacArthur. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

05 Dec 2013
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Lessons Learned from Healthcare.gov

Keywords: communication; collaboration; Health, Social Assistance

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