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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
particularly timely as fast-trackers rethink their priorities in the sobering aftermath of 9/11, ongoing corporate scandals, and the high-tech boom and bust. “It’s about wanting to build something of lasting value in a world where the...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
their own community or their own family member, and then they will say to them, you know, we are your world now. You can never go home. They will kill you. And so these songs worked against that, but it was important that they were View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth...
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by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: Mix Master by Sean Silverthorne In contemporary culture, a remix is the bringing together of assets in new ways—a song that combines recording samples from Otis Redding or Brenda Lee, say, placed in a new Kanye West wrapper....
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
the procedure’s precision: There were a few cells in his brain that were responding in unison—the effect akin to a record skipping, playing the same note over and over again. Bennet and his colleagues needed a way to resume the melody....
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Janelle Nanos
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
just a perception influenced by selective bias, wherein the McVays and Shanahans of the world stick in our minds? We decided to examine this question by looking at NFL coach hires in the twenty first century. While the average age of NFL...
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- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
two-thirds are still going to western Europe, where typically they are in an enclave of other American students, speaking English, learning from an American professor; and it’s pretty far from the immersive, perspective-changing experience that, frankly, is fundamental...
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There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS - MBA
internship offer instead. Later that semester I applied to Peek and asked P&G for time off from my internship to fly to Boston and join the program. They happily worked with me. Peek opened my world to new ideas and exposed me to more...
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- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's...
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MBA 2024 Alumni Transition - Alumni
ends Section and Class Email List access ends Zoom Pro access ends Please download and store your Zoom cloud recordings before access is lost. Once your access to HBS Zoom ends you can still attend HBS Zoom events by using a free Zoom...
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Michael Maples
leap across the chasm, from startups to investing. In so doing, he became one of the most successful venture capitalists in the technology sector, with a unique investing philosophy and an enviable track record that makes him a regular...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
around a first wave of globalization from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1920s and a second wave that started after World War 2, intensified from the 1980s until around the 2008 global financial crisis. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas Children’s Hospital customized a commercial EHR system and assembled a cross-functional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that...
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Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa - MBA
worked in both the social and private sectors. I also did consulting for the World Bank, giving me great insight into working with African governments. Africa is filled with exciting potential alongside its share of challenges and I can...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
two contrasting approaches to delivering digital content to users. Can Apple and the recording industry seriously compete against free? Do iTunes and p2p help each other in some ways? Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and collaborator...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
should keep the social dimension of your work in mind-that is, the opportunity to do something good for others.” CURRENT READING The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, by Dennis Ross Sir Ronald Cohen helped lead Apax Partners to a...
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- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies...
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Carmen Nobel