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29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

native English speaker, and I have carried those learnings and me into my new role. I'm CEO of Sodexo's US business for one of their lines of activity. So, I think it has made me just a better, more effective, more compassionate leader.... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

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01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

she says. No matter. In breaking new ground, without a map, Whitman is in her comfort zone. Her first step at Quibi was to “put meat on the bones of the business plan,” she says: defining the content and tech strategies and figuring out... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

looking for me and I, nobody knew where I was, and in an environment that is less politically correct, everybody knew that Joe was looking for me because he stepped out of his office and started yelling about my whereabouts. So I get to... View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

going to be living a 100-year life. So I wanted a framework that helped you understand both from a personal standpoint. But then, I began to think about this from a business standpoint: we need a multi-stage definition around life. DM:... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

I’ve observed it directly talking to teachers: extreme fatigue. People have theories about what’s causing it two years on Zoom, every week having changing COVID guidelines. Not just what’s going on in your work environment at the school... View Details

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

environments that make you uncomfortable. Like being in a foreign country where you don't speak the language and you have to learn how to cope. Being in a new company, being in a new situation, that's where you learn, that's where you... View Details

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