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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the Apple II a viable business tool. Takeaways from Entrepreneurial Finance Each of the 10,000-plus veterans of Entrepreneurial Finance has his or her own list of lessons learned in the course. Here are just a few: Cash is king. More cash...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that...
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- 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...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
important lessons about competition: “At the end of the day, it is a sport,” he says. “You shake hands, win or lose, and move on.” Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993 MIKITANI: In his Tokyo office. Hiroshi Mikitani barely knew the word...
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- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta. The meeting yielded more View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
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New Releases
whose revenues would eventually exceed the combined sales of Bethlehem Steel, Colgate-Palmolive, Gillette, B.F. Goodrich, Kellogg, Olivetti, Scott Paper, and Whirlpool. In his new book, Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Dear Future Author…
lover of literature, and author of Leadership Wisdom: Lessons from Poetry, Prose, and Curious Verse “Writing the book is the easy part! Getting your book read or heard in today’s crowded market for content is a real challenge. It is...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
stories about celebrities like Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, and LeBron James into novel strategy lessons about the growing "market" for superstars. As an alum imbued with HBS's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, I...
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Maureen Harmon
- 22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning
Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily on View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator
points over and over again to different kids, I should make videos of each lesson and put them on YouTube. I was skeptical. YouTube was for cats playing the piano, not serious mathematics! Then I got over the idea that it wasn’t my idea,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
reassess how their strategy is working and to change initiatives if need be. It’s a high-impact lesson in driving corporate performance. Later that day, all nine sections played the latest version of the Beer Game. The simulation, first...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
send their children to private schools, as well as providing enrichment activities such as music lessons or summer camps. As parents, they have more time to spend with their children, particularly when they are very young, and in the...
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- 04 Nov 2016
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A Solo Sail Around the World
educational opportunity, allowing students around the world to follow his voyage with a series of lesson plans. “With the partners we have, we certainly have the potential to reach two or three million students,” he said, up from about...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
audience shifted in their seats and went “Ooohhh!” Wails of laughter. It had hurt good. The best lesson I learned at HBS: The big progressive companies spent 20 percent of their profit on R&D. Twenty percent of my time—one day a week—I do...
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April White
- 28 Oct 2014
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The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
Manufacturing had good lessons on systems thinking and building a learning organization.” What advice do you have for current HBS students thinking about launching their own companies? “Find a great work partner, find a great life...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief
edition, with a new preface by authors Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, reveals why short-term corporate success often increases the chance of long-term failure. Drawing on lessons from firms worldwide, this book provides...
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- 22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
community center that brings people together around food and agriculture, teaching some of the lessons of self-sufficiency that were always a part of the Farm Life School philosophy. That DIY attitude is the next big trend, Duda says....
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April White
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
fingers on his left hand. The Army sent him to Hawaii for treatment by a top surgeon, and during his long recovery, Jefferson had ample time for personal reflection. "Ironically, my accident taught me lessons that will improve my life...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2013
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Faculty Books
This book brings together scholars from multiple disciplines who examine contemporary regulation to gain a clearer grasp of what regulatory capture is, where and to what extent it occurs, and what prevents it from occurring more fully and pervasively. Many chapters...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
these “dogmas” was that memory was Intel’s “technology driver.” Because memory devices were easier to test than other Intel products, they were traditionally the products that were debugged first. The lessons learned could then be applied...
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