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08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details

20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves

“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

process at every level of the 17,320-employee company. "Most nonhuman resources, such as capital or equipment, can be acquired," he says. "What's more important is how a corporate strategy is executed and how people utilize resources." At... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

innovation in higher education. How does HBS deal with the risks and opportunities of disruptive innovation for its own long-term development? Ha Xuan Trung (MBA 1978), Brookline, Massachusetts More About The HBS Campaign Investing In... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

investment fund. When the wow of the paycheck wore off, he was unhappy. Whatever Rogers was destined to do, this wasn’t it. His boss suggested business school, and Stanford accepted, but a fortuitous dinner in Dallas found him seated next... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

survey of HBS alumnae from the Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1991 indicates that only 38 percent of the respondents are currently working full-time. However, other findings from the survey suggest that a growing number of these former View Details

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

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

way to solve it. Morrell: With this goal and the investments from Omidyar and others, Ruma pivoted and soon rebranded as Mapan, a word that implies something is “financially self-sufficient.” Haryopratomo: What Mapan does is it solves a... View Details

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

sectors. And then I think—perhaps a story that is still emerging—are asset allocators, sovereign funds, pension funds that are steadily embracing what are called, you know, ESG principles (environmental, social, governance criteria) and trying to ensure that the View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

consulting, he founded Warsaw-based investment firm Metropolitan Capital Solutions in 2009. Now, with his back to the former Communist headquarters, Maj strides across a newly established public plaza.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea."... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

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