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- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
the best of both Western and local practices,” she says. “Unfortunately, this is more the exception than the norm. Far too many try to enforce a Western style upon the local culture or, even worse, adopt the most convenient, and often the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
lowest law court in the land.” Moore was again in Shanghai; in the five months since his arrival in China, he traveled only as far as Peking, 144 feet above sea level. First, the expedition had been waylaid by the outbreak of war when the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women
cohort. They were great for education, she recalls, but progress was slow as far as gaining seats. So, Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, created a directory of the 2016 and 2017 WOB participants so the women could connect... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
would be replaced. But instead we kept those programs, and to exploit improved technology, we added new ones. So the problem of date handling was never addressed. Now we know that an imperfection we're willing to tolerate today could remain with us View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous economic damage and social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
lives. Many students hold these leaders accountable far beyond their business successes or failures. Can you be a great leader and not a great human being? What defines a legacy? These are questions people in business rarely address, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
Great Recession. Certainly, there are some similarities: there are some elements of a standard demand-side crisis, and we need to be attentive to those. But the problem we are facing today goes far beyond a breakdown in demand, so it is... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
fan support. Nobody puts out a more exciting product or showcases more talented and skilled athletes than the major American professional leagues. But have the beauty, fun, and thrills of games - which once far outdistanced the commercial... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
HBS gave me far more than a business degree, and for that I’m forever grateful.” To learn more about the Greater Boston Food Bank, go to https://www.gbfb.org/. View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a diverse group of people, the results are View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
19th-century America that exists nowhere else,” says Special Collections Librarian Timothy Mahoney. “That’s why researchers come from far and wide to use it.” A scholar might research women-owned boarding houses, for example, or German... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
empowering culture gave Dreyer’s a competitive edge that propelled it far beyond its regional origins. “Looking back, these are the two best things we did,” Rogers opines. Suitors Come Calling A strong commitment to innovation has also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy en route. The Grain Belt... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
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Road Work
now mid-afternoon, it's probably 35 degrees and it's howling wind and there is not a person within, as far as I know, a hundred miles of me. And I cannot pick up this bike. It's not horizontal, but the bags popped off and it's almost 800... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
global reservation systems, including Internet traffic, and overseeing the operations of a newly established pan-European call center that he designed and implemented. These high-tech business operations are a far cry from Club Med's... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days
one assumes her Rolodex is as star-studded as a Hollywood blockbuster, but far more enduring in value. Globalization Looking over the last quarter-century, globalization is another powerful trend that has engaged the talents of the Class... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
strategies; and aligned risk, compensation, and performance. What if they had been true stewards of other people’s money? Surely, they would have reduced the incalculable financial devastation and human suffering that has followed. We still don’t truly know how View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
much stronger grasp of business fundamentals, such as how to read a balance sheet, apply price-earnings and other ratios, and be an effective manager generally. One insight he gained was that a Nation reader was really a potential “customer” for life, with “value”... View Details