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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
out of the air-conditioned tractor cab to do,” he says. Hand-worked chores account for a huge portion of labor on farms, says Andersen. Take, for example, table grapes, which are picked exclusively by hand: California farmers gross... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
An uncle involved in politics was shot dead. “The country sort of came to a standstill,” he says. Fernando returned to Sri Lanka several years ago, leaving a secure position as managing director and group COO at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up
growth at a 26-year-old regional business. Its self-described “Traegerite” customers were intensely loyal to the company’s signature wood pellet–fired grills and smokers. But he didn’t anticipate the challenge of managing a disgruntled,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
pirates, who then manage to get the state to cement their gains and become legitimate," stated Spar. For their respective eras, she asserts, Sir Francis Drake and Rupert Murdoch are kindred spirits who played such roles. More recent... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
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The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
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Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
yourself an entrepreneur? Yes. It’s really at the heart of our success. Our very harsh reality is that we are in a business that is dominated by enormous global brewing conglomerates, with some of the best managers in the world, people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
able to do these studies and get them out faster, because managers need to make these choices right now, and if we miss this opportunity, we’ll go back to our paths-already-taken approach. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
role as managing partner at Global Ventures, doing all the things hard-driving VCs do—like making presentations from a hospital bed. In March 2021, Enan traveled to New York for open heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and oDesk make it possible to find... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS... View Details
- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
destruction." Sharing the views of most of the industry, my septuagenarian grandfather was ill-prepared for the new era. The "how," though, was a question that had bothered me for years: How had the treasurer managed to do it? While the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
corporate wellness market by partnering with health plans and employers, and has expanded into more general health and wellness areas, with apps for people who want to eat better, for instance, or be more fit. After discovering that their technology could help... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
level, “is when you actually tilt the playing field by influencing the policymaking or contracting process; this is illegal and unfair.” Abdelal says that for many executives, the challenge is managing a business culture in which it is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF.... View Details