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- 01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, about four years after HBS, when I was reflecting on a major career decision point. While the book is rich with insights, two big concepts continue to shape me today. First is the idea that two people can...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first to stand atop Mount Everest, in 1953; and Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, in 1969. But Vescovo hadn’t gotten there by himself. To send one person to the most remote places on the planet, it had taken an...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
acted when the stakes were high; from his growing depth as a moral actor; and from his sheer will to get up each morning and do what he could in service to his mission. In early September, Union forces scored a critical military victory....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
make up the bulk of typical office users—are about $65,000 per year, per US Bureau of Labor Statistics. After including other costs paid by the employer, the fully loaded cost per employee would be about $75,000 per year. This divided by...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In
the hallways, patients and their families mingle with physicians in loose-fitting scrubs making their rounds, earnest administrators with armfuls of files, busy nurses, and other hospital personnel who team up to make MGH a world-famous...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) 2020 was the year everybody learned what a supply chain is. The first lesson came in the form of a toilet paper shortage in the earliest days of the pandemic. The most important...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Turning Point: Step Change
asked her why, she said, “I think there’s something special in you and you’d be a good leader for the team.” That stuck with me for a long time: Mrs. Hazelip identified a quality in me that I hadn’t seen myself, that I had the potential to be a leader. Another moment...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton
that addresses local issues with a range of opinions. Were there other aspects to “the public interest”? In the early years of radio, one of the FCC’s interests was to develop that industry by encouraging people to use the spectrum. It...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA). "I didn't have a business background, but I was intrigued by Harvard and the possibilities it could open up for me," says Franklin. Completing the HRPBA, she was admitted to...
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- 16 Oct 2018
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To Lead and Serve
stayed in five years. And some of us, like myself, stayed in 38. But I didn't pass my grandfather, who did 39 years in. My concept of service to the country really came from my grandfather and my father talking about their careers, but...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
reportedly took just one day to review 42 other applications before announcing last February it had chosen Romney to be its new head. "Never in a million years had the job occurred to me," says the energetic and upbeat Romney. "But after...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
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Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
turbine blades. "I've always looked to fill the needs of niche markets," Twaalfhoven explains. By 1970, Indivers comprised 7 companies; five years later, it had grown to 20, including Interturbine, which at its height was made View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a...
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- 10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
those five quarters? Susan Wilner Golden: Okay. And first, to warn you, I know that's funky math. There's only four quarters. DM: [laughs] SWG: Um, but this was the paradigm and framework I came up with. It was too hard to think of life...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting...
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Jill Radsken