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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
dad or single mom who’s got to pick up their kid from soccer practice on Friday afternoon. If all of a sudden being part of the Cloudflare team requires you to come out drinking with us, they’re not going to think that that’s a very...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
as a child and worked at the Museum of Natural History for a year before applying to HBS. “We have to decide on the most user-friendly method of con-veying exhibit information to, say, a parent with three small kids and no spare hands. We...
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- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
as one of those, Bill. Thanks for joining me. Bill: It's great to be here, Brian. Thanks for asking. Brian: I found this case to be very, very interesting. I think many of our listeners have probably referred to those rankings at some point either for themselves or for...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
projects with social impact—from cleaning up a river to saving animals—and allowed other users to vote on which projects Pepsi should fund. Or consider DonorsChoose.org, which allows donors to contribute funds directly to low income classrooms, buying books for View Details
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- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
I was just a person with a baby walking in. Search is a great thing to do while you’re having kids because your schedule is your own. RY: Well, maybe this is a good moment to talk a little bit about the business that you ended up buying,...
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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
amounts of time doing different things. And as a 22-year-old kid I could tell you I never left the office and worked all the time. As a 47-year-old man I wouldn't advocate that to anybody. And I have this general sense that the more you...
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
assumptions about parents and kids valid to suggest the product would be in high demand once launched? Could she keep a premium price point in a consumer market that was trending downward in willingness to pay? Should she cut back on...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
lawn without my son or daughter hanging on to the handle, feeling like they're helping me push it, but they're hanging on. Do you know what I mean? Or-- I don't think I've ever been hammered a nail all the way through without having one of my View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea of kids wearing helmets to...
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- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
talk to that person. Because you can't say to somebody, well, wait a minute, though—don't you think he's kind of racist? I mean, you you have to say what's going on? How do you think there's a way to do this kind of research? So we got this View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghan citizens who returned to their country after years spent in Pakistani refugee camps. When Khoja was nine, the family moved to London; there, kids on the playground called him a “Paki,” the shorthand slur for all Southeast Asians;...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Maine. His work at two of Common Good's partner organizations — Stone Soup Foods and East End Kids Katering, both in Portland, Maine — focused on evaluating new business opportunities and developing marketing plans to maximize each...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Beth Terrana clocked the seventy-hour weeks demanded of someone in her position. “I’d get home from work, eat dinner with my family, put the kids to bed, and work until 1 a.m. I was in a constant state of exhaustion,” she recalls. Then,...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
works for Xbox and play games with her and Toedebusch, Bond says, “after they’ve done their homework and brushed their teeth and picked up their rooms and fed their lizard.” And the couple have continued the mission of looking at their careers as building a better...
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- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
aren't laughing, and we plunge into those opportunities, into that struggle, and into that work. Let me ask you, what is the most meaningful moments of your lives? Like tell me what has been meaningful to you. And if you had to distill this down for your View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
reason why what we’re doing here is so important is because I really want my kids to live in a Sri Lanka that’s better than the Sri Lanka that I live in today or the one I grew up in. “Nayana said it with such intensity and authenticity...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
family time is one of the most valuable and precious things on earth. Time with the kids is perhaps the best thing to come out of what has otherwise been such a trying time. There are blessings even in challenges.” —David Aron Levine (MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
young kids from difficult environments. Launched in 2001 with 25 classmates, the group has grown to 100 members who are involved in a selected set of projects, giving advice, sharing contacts, and providing financial support. “We took a...
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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
house under her name in a partnership with the luxury conglomerate Kering as a 50/50 joint venture in 2001. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her collections, which include women's ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, lingerie,...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
not I was cut out to be in business. So when we pulled up in the summer and realized that we had to do another reduction in force I went to our Chief Operating Officer and asked if I could take a package. My kids at the time were one and...
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