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01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

Corruption, Poverty, and Global Finance Thank you for your excellent article about global poverty in the March Bulletin. I’m delighted to see these issues getting more attention. This year marks the 45th year of my involvement in the... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

knowledge of how to get the product out there. Distributing refrigerated products is not an easy business. People could probably come pretty close to copying our re-cipes, but to actually do the marketing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

have increased tremendously through the use of information technology," Harad notes. He points out that in the office products distribution business, order fulfillment (30,000 40,000 individual orders per... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

Offspring Beth, MBA '97 John, HBS '03 Hobbies Sailing, skiing Recommended Reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell "Sowell provides important insights into public policy and how it is driven by certain assumptions about human... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

billboard-shaped notices -- about 10 percent of those who saw the ads were enticed to click on them. These surfers were taken to the sponsor's Web site, and a new age in advertising had begun. Today, advertising on the Internet is much... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

who recorded the moment exclusively for a five-part documentary series that will air on the Discovery Channel this fall. “Who knows what could have happened?” Procedure dictated that if he was out of contact... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship

When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos

he says, is the archetype for all emerging markets. "If you can't succeed here, you're not going to do well anywhere," says Venkatesan, who most recently served as chairman of Microsoft India from 2004 to 2011. "Emerging markets are... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

cycles could leave on rural and postindustrial America. And having taught special education at a high school on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation reservation as part of Teach For America after finishing his undergraduate degree, he understood... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

also forbidden the group from stealing food. They still had gold coins, which Green had distributed among the men, and would buy what food they could. One night, however, the team discovered that their limited food supply had been stolen... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

madeleines. The workforce is expected to increase from 19 to 25, possibly more. It’s the next phase of Jeannette—with added capacity, the company will be in position to expand its distribution exponentially... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

weight of the centuries of injustices as we undertake this critically important work,” Pagliuca told WBZ Channel 4, the Boston-area CBS affiliate. “The Boston Celtics have a... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year, however, one View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

So you feel good, lose the baby weight, and are more present, while raising thriving children—in an entirely do-able, time-saving, with-you-in-the-trenches way. Confessions of a Christian by Art Hilsinger (MBA 1952) Independently... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

lineup of special guests and surprises. All episodes of The Domonique Foxworth Show are available online at ESPN.com, the ESPN NFL YouTube channel, and on all podcast View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale... View Details