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- 02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Confederacy Nineteen ninety-six was only a few days old when the New York Times ran the headline "'95 the Hottest Year on Record." The story discussed mounting scientific evidence of global warming, a potentially catastrophic...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
capacity. In illustrating this point in a book on macroeconomics that I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted three people: President Herbert Hoover, who was the US president when the Great Depression started; President Franklin...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The People’s Pods
production Bluetooth technology inside cars has been a factor. As recently as eight or nine years ago, if you wanted to use an MP3 player or an iPod in the car, you’d have to hook it up to one of those old...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
wire shipped, you are going to have a shortage when you take inventory. I ended up landing another job in a totally different industry—it was a terrific experience. Three years later I moved to Washington,...
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- 13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry
than anything, and that perhaps I was called to ministry,” he says. “I went to my rector to talk about it, and he said, ‘What took you so long?’ Less than a year later, I was in seminary.” Quainton gave up a...
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Margie Kelley
- 14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action
leadership has become a personal and professional mission for Nick, who was coaxed out of retirement last year to take a new post as president and CEO of Dairyland Power Cooperative, a multisource energy provider made View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal
Swearengin: Leadership with the game on the line. Photo courtesy Julian Swearengin Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) has loved football ever since he began playing the game at age 5. “Growing up poor and on welfare in Detroit, the classroom...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Under the Hood
There’s more to a championship racing organization than a hot driver and a lightning-fast pit crew. Just ask NASCAR ace Tony Stewart about Brett Frood (MBA 2004), whom he hired eight years ago to run all his racing-related businesses as...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Google.org, IDEO, and other local businesses described their perspectives on the problem. The HBS Community Partners team will use the opportunities identified at the event to bring together cross-sector leaders over the next year, and share follow-up results one View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Growing up in Bristol, England, I went to a very strict private boys’ school. But when I was 10 years old, my father took me on a trip to Los Angeles. Even though I was a child,...
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- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country three View Details
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April White
- 01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re...
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- 30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck
not a crapshoot intrinsically. We just don't teach people how to innovate in a way that will predictably yield the results that we need. And so, we started to pursue that issue about 20 years ago. And it took a long time, because there...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
systemic risk. The reality is that these companies are inefficient producers that have consistently lost out to foreign-owned competition. They’ve had years to get their house in order and they failed. And what we now need to do is to...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
a direct partnership with traditional advisors. The Answers: When I first started researching the robo-advising space two years ago, there were already 20 offerings out there. Wealthfront and Betterment have the highest visibility, but...
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- 15 Sep 2015
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Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
AmREIT, a NYSE-listed company he sold in February 2015 to EDENS (Blackstone, J.P. Morgan, and NYSTRS). Recently, Taylor founded Rowland Taylor, LLC, a real estate investment company in Houston, Texas. AmREIT was in its thirteenth year...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
seniors' money by offering a caregiver-managed debit card account with personalized spending controls and extra protection from fraud and scams. Johnston likens the growing opportunities in aging to the old high school science lesson of placing a frog in a pan of water...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
of the planet. Those of us with power and money need to redirect our concerns with that in mind.” “You can’t just shrug your shoulders and say, ‘Africa is a hell of a problem,’ and then forget about it.” During thirty years in...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Where Are They Now?
media wanted Glauber’s expert opinion. After all, he played a key role in setting up the Resolution Trust Corporation to handle the S&L bailout in the late 1980s, and he helped formulate regulatory reform of commercial banks in the early...
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