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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
There is something in the human soul that yearns to get away from it all, to some unspoiled paradise by the sea, lulled by gentle breezes. And those dreams of golden days and starlit nights translate into a startling, cold-cash reality: Tourism generates View Details
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
written over the next few years — with all the usual ups, downs, twists, and turns — by Russ Wilcox and other innovators in the e-reader industry. How It Works: Cross Section of Electronic Ink Microcapsules Electronic ink is made View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
transition, including AOL, PopSugar, and Time, Inc. In the six years since she joined the company, Reddit’s balanced approach has paid off. Today more than 82 million users come to the site daily for advice and community on everything...
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- 15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside Washington, DC, as the hearing daughter...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
she picked up customer expertise at P&G and later at Disney, where she ran the Consumer Products Division. As a VP at Bain & Company, she gained industry experience that she later applied as head of the Children’s Group at Stride Rite and...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Years That Created America: The Story of the Explorers, Promoters, Investors, and Settlers Who Founded America by Ted Lamont (MBA 1951) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Fault Lines: A Layman’s Guide to Understanding America’s Role in the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
his involvement in the circus to his other interests, Slifka observes that "the circus is something you feel with your belly, not with your head. And belly stuff is where humans connect." His eyes light up and his smile broadens as he...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a...
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- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
and had little leverage to force the company to lower the price of electricity and offer green energy. “We are ready to take up these fights on behalf of the communities,” Riley says. One of the first was in northern New Mexico, where the...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home
officials regarded us as too risky to deal with,” says Stuntz. Greentech eventually set up shop in Worcester, forty miles west of Boston, in a former trolley-car factory. With a place to call home, the company finally graduated to the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Transforming Baker Library
from HBS. The plan was developed over the next year following discussions with faculty, staff, and MBA and doctoral students. To come up with the design, HBS tapped Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the firm...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
consumers and shopping habits in the next few years. Real Estate, a Love Story: Wisdom, Honor, and Beauty in the Toughest Business in the World By Joshua Benaim (MBA 2006) Disruption Books With this book, a blend of memoir and strategy, Joshua Benaim takes readers on a...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
high-value innovation that was conceptually and strategically right for us." An initiative launched by Lafley calls upon P&G to find half of its new products outside its walls, up from 20 percent four years...
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- 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
Justine Smyth (PMD 77, 2002) remembers a time when no one in New Zealand talked about breast cancer. It was 1980, and her mother, just 45 years old, had been diagnosed. Her mother underwent a mastectomy and survived, but “we weren’t...
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- 17 Feb 2016
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The Power of Art
in San Francisco. ArtLifting’s chief operating officer Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015) told the Times that the company is gearing up for dramatic growth: “We have the funding right now, but it isn’t going to be here forever This is a critical...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that...
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- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of Jhunjhunu. More than 100,000 young...
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Jennifer Myers
- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
that of his father, who was trained as an engineer and ended up in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and MIT, respectively, and he spent a View Details