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genetic insights. Team: Brandon Chi, MBA 2024; Joseph Swift; Amitesh Pratap; Leonie Luginbuehl. Previous Next President’s Innovation Challenge The President’s Innovation Challenge is an annual competition that celebrates alumni and student founders from View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)

on comedy writing at the People’s Improv Theater in addition to writing for Monk, a USA Network weekly comedy-mystery series. Toplyn and his wife, Sherry, are the parents of two teenage sons. As an undergrad, I worked on the Harvard Lampoon. Surrounded by funny people,... View Details

Keywords: comedy writing; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Mar 2005
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Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

I polled everyone I met — friends, relatives, colleagues, people sitting next to me on airplanes — to determine what skills people most wanted to master. We all like to think we’re so different, but I was amazed to find during my research... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today than it was in 1983. View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right

foreign policy, because for the last 100 years, we’ve always had strong allies. China, Russia, and Europe all sided with us against Germany and Italy during World War II, but our role in the world is now considerably different, and we... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

the Restaurant Industry Michael S. Kaufman Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under Accounting & Management and Organizational Behavior) Robert Simons Spring 2025... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Ink

smoke, with cinders falling all around like ‘sleet.’ And they’d make their own scooters—a narrow board with a crosspiece for the handlebars with one roller skate in front and one in the back.” —Youthful pursuits in the Riverdale section... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Sep 2004
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Hollywood Story

all day,” she says, attributing her discontent to her type-A personality. At the urging of a friend, Epstein began to write. She soon came up with the idea for a Wall Street thriller. In HBS fashion, Epstein also started networking. In... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story

2010), managing partner at Material, founder and chairman of Blue Apron, and cofounder of Embark Veterinary Not All Users Are Created Equal Building consumer products is notoriously hard. It’s a long road to figure out what gets to the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results provide strong support for the predictions of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

although patenting in neural networks saw a strong burst of activity in the 1990s that has only recently been surpassed. In all technological fields, the number of patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2002
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More than a Game

flying cleats, elbows, and free-form tackles — is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. But there was nothing gentle about the hard-fought match between the HBS Old Boys alumni rugby team and members of the current HBS Rugby Football Club on a drizzly Sunday last... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham

giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

financial institutions in his native land. He then risked all his fortune to launch his own bank. “Entrepreneurship really means taking risks,” says Özyeğin, whose start-up eventually became one of Turkey’s largest private banks. Today,... View Details

05 Jul 2011
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The Business of Champions

triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

hierarchy in interfirm transaction networks in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector due to... View Details