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Commencement 2015 Address | About

true. Yet when I talk with even our most celebrated and successful alumni, I’m continually struck by how their paths were never a straight line to success. Many of them were fired, or launched a business that failed. Some of them faced... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since View Details

01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier not having to worry about the bottom line so much.' " In... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

empower teams who are closer to the customer and unlock the full potential of organizations. While born in the software world, the approach is viewed as transformative in both software and hardware across sectors, including financial... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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Marla Malcolm Beck

one knew what facials were. When I was in Boston, I used to drive 45 minutes to get MAC lipstick.” The proverbial light bulb went on and Beck decided she could bring beauty products online. Bluemercury was born. As every nascent... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

business and its leaders can no longer afford to be one-dimensional and narrow in focus. Business executives need to broaden the definition of their fiduciary duties in their business practices and ask themselves how their products and... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

offer a different and productive path forward. The philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

explores family companies from managerial, psychological, and financial angles. Topics range from "entrepreneurial management styles," to "birth order dynamics," to "women's issues in the family firm." "What's important is that students... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supplier reliability tracking. Using this analytical model, we observe how a supplier's service level performance molds a customer's beliefs as well as how a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable division. After that, I was View Details

17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Alumni Books Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams by Evan Baehr (MBA 2011) and Evan Loomis (Harvard Business Review Press) Now that you have your big idea, how will you find and... View Details

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

of politics is higher than it has been in the last couple of decades. Also, one way of viewing local elections and political primaries is as a product development process for the major parties. Letting voters choose among a diverse array... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader

that focuses on the short term? I think to some extent business schools focus too much on developing people for the financial community and consulting, both of which are very numbers-oriented. There’s nothing wrong with being analytical.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

being an artist was short-lived. She took a year off from her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth in an attempt to launch her ballet career, working as a waitress at a comedy club to pay for auditions and coaching. “I discovered I was... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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