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01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

any discrimination at Goldman," Sherwood comments. "Because Lynne could also be a man's name, the corporate executives we called on didn't always know I was a woman. Sometimes they were astounded. But as long as I could show I knew what I... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

third best reforming economy in the world for 2009 and 32nd in the world in 2010 for the ease of doing business. We are very pro-business, with 10 percent corporate and personal income tax and one-stop company registration in only four... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

these solutions have to be community-run—whether it's corporations being involved, local companies, the local community, the local schools, the local health departments. They all have to make the decisions because they're on the ground... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

hovered prohibitively high. The solution was to tap into the resources of tax-exempt universities, starting, they hoped, with Harvard, whose chief investment officer was a friend of Dan Gregory's. "After we had given numerous dog-and-pony shows, View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business... View Details

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

and more treatable stage. And so when I came across this company it just so personally resonated with me. And I pivoted my corporate career into the health care space and into genomic space, all inspired by this very personal journey. I... View Details

02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled

many respects it was time for her. Her husband died a few years earlier and it was time for me. If I tried to find her out someplace along the line, when I was, when I was at Lehman brothers, having great difficulty in my corporate... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

president of corporate development and strategy at the Madison Square Garden Company, which now hosts esports events in its venues across the country. “But, to use a basketball analogy, esports is still in the beginning of the first... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

learnings captured in his recent book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies. READ MORE Flint: Why don't we start by talking about what you mean by deep purpose and how it’s different from the mission statements and the kinds of View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked

It’s looking for a particular pattern, probably a credit card pattern in this case, and didn’t find it. So it keeps on, every time it finds a new pathway—it just goes down it and marches down to the next computer, to the next computer, and then on and on. The View Details

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