collectibles - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
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White knight in the rye

collecting and philanthropy. His grand gesture toward Salinger was complemented by his charitable view of Maynard, the target of unfavorable comment from many quarters, not the least of which was the National Review, which dubbed her an... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

Draper petitioned the state’s attorney general for permission to collect signatures for the measure to be placed on the 2016 ballot, but by September 2014 the 752,685 validated signatures out of about 1.1 million View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Dec 2021
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Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

be enterprise-wide. It had to be all-encompassing, because digital transformation is all-encompassing. We were stakeholder-driven, collecting input from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We took a design-thinking approach to the... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

well, to the point where you have to wonder whether Americans have simply become unleadable. Leadership used to mean giving people a sense of being something larger than themselves, and convincing them that, with a clear sense of what unites them, Americans are capable... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal

local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

a collection of the wisdom that our life experiences have taught us. I know what I know because of what I've experienced. You know what you know because of what you've experienced. So if you subscribe to the school of thought that says we... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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New Releases

Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence Edited by David B. Yoffie (Harvard Business School Press) In an introduction to this new collection of essays, David Yoffie, the School's Max and Doris Starr Professor of Business... View Details

04 May 2017
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Going the Distance

12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities

success—of global immersions for students and the faculty alike. In addition, graduates share their insights with each other through Skydeck, the alumni podcast series launched in 2016; enhanced reunion programming; webinars; and other activities highlighted on the... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman

and Andy Paul (MBA 1983) reached out to alumni to inform them of the new fund. “Early support has been extraordinary,” adds Paul. “It’s a true testament to the role that Bill has played in so many lives as well as to the collective... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Groundswells

Baker Library Historical Collections THE ORIGINAL 13 Speaking at the campus dedication on June 4, 1927, George Fisher Baker, whose $5 million gift funded the construction of the thirteen original riverfront buildings, set the tone for the... View Details

Keywords: George F. Baker III; Read Estate Development

01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

I understand the dilemma. The answer depends on where revenue comes from, how your buyers and sellers are structured (regional, national, or stand-alone), and how strong the network effects are. In this case, staffing doesn’t have as much network effect as View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

thousand dollars he collected from fifteen friends, Clinkscales put together a prototype of the magazine. With a cover story titled "Divided We Fall" and with the 24-year-old Clinkscales listed as editor and publisher, the debut issue of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

Holdings plans and manages corporate art collections and art support programs in his native Japan. The best known of these is the Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program, which buys about 200 works a year from emerging Japanese artists... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

that is the difference between two very interesting and very important numbers: how much money the government spends and how much it collects in taxes. Those are both important numbers. The difference between the two of them is not... View Details