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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
did in Developing the Afro-American Economy (1977) and Paying the Social Debt (1993). In Lift the Hood, he proposes that a surtax on the top 30 percent income bracket for thirty years would be the way to...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
about forty pages long, very detailed, and very specific in its comparisons. I delivered it to Grove on a Friday and was summoned to his office first thing Monday morning. He requested that I contact Professor Hayes to introduce him and...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
the end of July, the business tribunal in Caen was considering four offers for the Jeannette brand and leftover machinery, Viana’s among them. Two focused solely on the purchase of the machinery; one View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
essentially looking for the kind of people who would have wanted to sign on with Columbus for his first voyage west. Sahlman: When I first proposed to teach a course in...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
Investments, in 2003. A third company, Cityboxes — a service for city dwellers that stores, tracks, and delivers items to and from storage upon request — is already in the development stage. “I love all...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
the arguments of economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the...
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- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case directly. When told by the dean...
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- 22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
PBS Hour dug deep into the scene's underworld and found that all roads lead to the Mutiny, this glitzy hotel in Coconut Grove that was a hub for celebrities and the epicenter of a global drug trade. Farzad spoke with the Bulletin's...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
wife, Anuradha, is uncompromising when it comes to my giving priority to family and friends. Thanks to her coaching, I’ve learned how to switch off my “crackberry” and how to say no to requests for meetings....
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
challenge is to hammer out details for implementing changes in the three areas where there’s broad agreement for action. Ideas abound. In response to an invitation from Light, fifty faculty members sent the...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
fans if not necessarily the owners; of the five teams with the highest payrolls in baseball, four made it to the final playoff round of four." As for the public, it seems cranky and less inclined to go the extra mile to support a...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains, "it taught me an intuitive feel...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
money to fix the problem, it had to figure out what the problem was. Why were customers going elsewhere? What did they want? Shortly after Cunningham arrived, she asked her team for the top three requests...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from...
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