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- 11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better
motivated. You have to understand how and why people are motivated so that you, as a leader, can help them do their best work," she says. The lesson has translated profoundly at the research-focused AFS, where Tepper Singer manages a...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The End of the Noncompete Clause
Dell EMC merger deal closed in September, the company’s president suggested that they would be more “thoughtful and careful” in their use of noncompetes. EARN’s efforts against Dell EMC are ongoing, and Johnson plans to use the lessons...
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2005
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Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
shared certain traits. Panelists recalled difficult situations from their own careers, trying to stay on course while adjusting to particular circumstances. As the action went back and forth, the audience listened and questioned the pros, absorbing View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
exposition of his own role in, and the cautionary lessons of, recent history. One such lesson would seem to be that citizens must demand — and government and corporations must create systems that allow for —...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
Incredibly, no such guide to flavor compatibility has ever been published before. Do restaurant chef/owners have management lessons for the rest of business? Absolutely. One acclaimed owner assigns a mood rating on a scale of one to ten...
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- 06 Apr 2016
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Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Koch first brewed the now-well known beer in his kitchen, long before the term “craft beer” was coined. In his entertaining new book, he shares 20-plus years of lessons learned since the first batch of beer—“the long arc of an...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Big Bailouts, Little Debate
— Internet, housing, private equity, credit, emerging markets — and the only lesson we’ve taken away is that when each one bursts, an eager audience moves on to the next. Those specific bubbles won’t reinflate, but something else will....
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- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
inspired me to be bold because my classmates were the same way. The greatest lesson I took from HBS is to speak up in meetings, challenge authority (respectfully and ideally with some data), and have an opinion.” You list ‘musical...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
taught valuable lessons about the deal negotiation process dubbed “the term-sheet tango.” The event concluded with a Venture Fair, featuring presentations to potential investors by four finalists selected in advance from sixteen business...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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You’ve Been YouTubed
or not we’re active users of them. A new case coauthored by HBS marketing professor John Deighton and research associate Leora Kornfeld offers an object lesson in what that means for big, recognizable companies and their brands. “United...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score
create marketing campaigns, etc., but as ESPN proves, fewer can retain and apply the lessons of good organizational behavior. When the book was first published, much of the initial interest—surprise!—had to do with backstage tales of sex,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Studies, University of Delhi. He subsequently led Expedition 3 to Sach Pass (15,000 feet). The lessons from these events were life-changing and shaped his later corporate career. This book shares the humbling View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
vocation Prieto started taking intensive conducting courses at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine and lessons at the Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts. The technical material, the mastering of scores—that came easy to...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the coming conflict. One important lesson of history is that major wars can arise even when economic globalization is very far advanced and the hegemonic position of an English-speaking empire seems fairly secure. A second important View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Brand New
“A lot of times, people have preconceived notions about how military leaders lead. They think it’s yelling, screaming, and staunch discipline. But one of the most critical leadership lessons I learned as a junior lieutenant was...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
the GDP. Are there any lessons from other countries that have gone through this? How can Nigeria revive its economy through agriculture? —Suleiman Yakasai (PLDA 22, 2016) BRUNELL: Nigeria typifies the problem of the “resource curse”—with...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
competition, and offering resilience for economic downturns. "Any governance system is going to have to achieve these kinds of things," said Froot, noting that ineffective governance may have contributed to the demise of certain dot-coms and thus to that sector's...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
balance between work and home. That lesson learned the hard way, I have nonetheless enjoyed a rich, varied life over these past forty years. The farm has been the most notable constant. I continue to enjoy the part of my life that gets me...
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