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- 01 Dec 2008
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Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the...
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- 04 Sep 2014
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Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
millions of dollars into research, and removed critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed in 2004, just weeks into his first year at...
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- 12 Jan 2010
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Tweet, Tweet
It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can...
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- 02 Aug 2021
- News
Cracking the Code
large team of coders. The most recent funding, led by Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners, amounts to huge news for Bubble, which has largely bootstrapped its way up to this point. The company has been experiencing significant growth in the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
companies don’t find success but still have valuable IP. That IP tends to be lost, or picked up for little money by companies that don't contribute to the competitiveness of the technology industry,” says Laguë. “I like salvaging them,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
shows on topics that many advertisers would find too edgy. How we consume TV, it seems, is changing what we consume, opening up new opportunities on the business and creative sides of an industry that hasn’t seen a similar degree of...
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Vimeo;
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Telecommunications;
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
tuck it into the back of your mind the way you would anything unpleasant — otherwise you couldn’t deal with it.” Snyder recalls wanting to be a criminal lawyer from an early age; as a young girl growing up in Baltimore, she took notes on...
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- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
Todd Brix (MBA 1997, Baker Scholar), a chemical engineer and businessman who spent 18 years at Microsoft, wanted to come up with a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: What to do...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their relationship with this sprawling...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
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Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished Service honoree. On his way View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
plan. “We are now wrapping up the second stage, called pre-production, which includes finalizing the treatment (equivalent to a script in a narrative film), casting, location scouting, and, of course, fundraising. “In short, we are ready...
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- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I grew up in the northeast part of the Bronx. There was no internet, so how did you learn about the world? If you...
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- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
hardware and software solutions. Ferguson has been in the water sector for more than a decade, including five years as the vice president of programming at Imagine H2O, an accelerator for water startups. In that role, he saw a growing...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Turning Point: Life Cycle
my goal. When you ride a bike four to six hours a day, there’s a lot of time for thinking about all sorts of life events, large and small. Fifteen years ago, my five-year-old daughter died suddenly. You have failed relationships, and you...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
enhance one's BATNA. Sebenius cites the example of Kennecott Copper Corporation, which a number of years ago was faced with what the company felt might be an eventual government takeover of its mines in Chile. Simply continuing a narrow,...
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Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!
becoming candidates. This is not a call for privatization of services (like trash pickup), which is already widespread. Instead, it’s a suggestion that the job of mayor itself be awarded by voters to a private firm. Unlike other privatizations, this would not be a...
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