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01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

that at age 35 Parker was too old for the Street. Such unwelcome advice “motivated me even more, because I hate it when people tell me something I can’t do,” he recalls. While the money was good and he honed some useful skills — “I learned how to make a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel

had learned as a corporation how to do things that all corporations must do if they are to succeed. Two of these deserve special note. First, Intel had learned how to grow. Second, it had learned how to compete. In 1971, Intel carried $3.6 million on its View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

are parked at all the Walmarts in the world, so hedge funds can [then] long or short the stock without waiting for the quarterly reports. It’s another way to monetize those images.” Balance sheets can take... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

trauma edged in too: The King George Hotel, just next door, sold for a song in 2017, when Eurobank was unloading foreclosed properties to bring down the balance of its nonperforming loans. “Forty-three million euros, it was the best offer... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

the polls instead of their hearts or brains. They listen more to political consultants than to voters. Our short-term-maximizing politicians fail to tackle longer-term societal challenges such as climate change or unaffordable entitlement programs and the resultant... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

colleges and universities.) “Racism creates unequal economic opportunities,” Neumann said, noting that Netflix has $5 billion on its cash balance sheet and encouraging other companies to move even just 1 or... View Details

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