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01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Turning Point: Living History

needed to quit my job and focus on the museum full-time. Suddenly I needed to understand climate-control systems and lighting. Then there was the business model and hiring our team. It was a completely mad... View Details

Keywords: museums; India; nonprofits; career paths; leadership; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby

try to apply a business model. There is no business model that you can apply to the racehorse business, because you're dealing with a thoroughbred racehorse. And you're dealing... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing the student-to-valuable-time-with-the-teacher ratio. This model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in... View Details

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

Stanford and now University of California. And she has shown and posited a model for happiness that I believe in. This is going to answer the question. And she says that, first of all, happiness is the joy you feel while striving towards... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

acknowledged place in the business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. “Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat,” sings Georges Seurat in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton

will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

reunions about what everyone needs to know before getting involved in the business of outer space. READ MORE The following is an edited transcript of a Skydeck Live podcast recording. Julia Hanna: So do you think just more broadly that... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

ex-wife and I with the model that he and she who much is given much is required. They know that they've always had to give back as well. My life has been very intentional relative to giving back and helping others. I believe that every... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields

models (including 11 in North America) slated to debut over the next three years. The lineup features the rotary-powered RX-8 sports car and the all-new midsize Mazda6, which, Fields proudly notes, has “class-leading driving dynamics,... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a View Details

Keywords: Time management

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

industry. The plan’s design was guided by several key outcomes: saving jobs; protecting businesses with liquidity and fiscal incentives; building tech infrastructure to support work-from-home initiatives; providing basic food and... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Apr 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Workforce. In addition, the committee is actively assisting Executive Education as it launches Breakthrough Insights, an exciting new program designed exclusively for alumni, scheduled for May 5-8. Members of the committee are also examining the current reunion View Details

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

01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

to pay anything they want for a product, a rational consumer should pay nothing, and that’s not a business model anyone can sustain. So how much do people tend to pay? First, most consumers pay more than... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups and downs of refining their... View Details