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- 01 Jun 2003
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John Read
letting go to do. What happened on that trip? I was having a helluva time attempting to scale a difficult rock face with someone belaying me from the top. In a short time the guy on belay, who is critical in this experience, got a sense of when I was beginning to lose...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
draft of the Human Genome Project, we launched the Biomedical Sciences Initiative here." As Singapore set out on this journey, Yeo made sure that plenty of funding was available to nurture and sustain the new ventures. From 2000 to 2005,...
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- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
3,600 when we arrived to up to north of 14,000 right now, and our sponsorship base is up about five times since we got here four short years ago. So you're talking about like a exponential increase in revenue and success. And that can...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
the right inputs to grow more and access the right markets to sell more. Co-ops are one way to do this (form a group to access credit for inputs and sell products in bulk), but they are notoriously messy and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
several important lessons from his school-board service: “Without innovative leadership, nothing gets done. We wanted a nontraditional change agent, so we went after the general and hired him. If you have the right people as...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
without reading it, which I thought was the homework assignment, and I did not want to get my homework wrong. It was simple as that. And so I got to class on the day that we were supposed to turn it in, and I watched all these kids walk...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
organizations, a deep sense of purpose was their key to growth. Humans are wired to find meaning in what we do, and tapping into that can have a transformative effect on an organization—and the people who work there. Here, in a...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech on the power of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course
Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO of a Massachusetts company...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
the right questions and how to process the answers. I acquired a thirst for knowledge and an instinct for reading human nature. And I developed a driving ambition to build something that would give me and my...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
The second 90 percent that we are ignoring is the true cost of operating our buildings: the people inside. Most companies spend as much as 90 percent of their budgets on human resources, a figure largely driven by their salaries and...
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- 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Human Services (HHS) department last year when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) first alerted officials about the coming pandemic. “All of our roles changed that day,” said Mango. “By March, we had taken the lead on finding what we...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
shared his idea. Especially supportive was a young, then untenured professor of information technology, James Cash. "Jim told me, 'Anything you do to improve the computer's human interface has got to be good,' " Bricklin recalls. By the...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence by Larry E. Fast (PMD 52, 1986) (Productivity Press) Fast explains how to implement and sustain a top-down, comprehensive strategy for manufacturing excellence. He provides guidance on...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
for instance, community outreach to minimize the risk of transmission or extensive efforts to retrofit facilities. These are expensive activities, and we need a financial model for them. I’m assuming that like every other provider, Mass General is feeling the burden of...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
attitude, and I think it was directly attributable to the presence of minorities and women in the class. They were really pioneers, and I think they made the whole school a more human place." One of those "pioneers," Eve Benton, currently...
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Deborah E. Blagg