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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
as well as a relatively new handset technology. The capital intensity made the company vulnerable to external markets. Taken separately, these risks were manageable. Taken together, they added up to failure. The personal lessons ran even...
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- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
problems? JP: Our early education staff are reaching out to families to check in and help address the challenges that they're facing. They’ve also provided weekly lesson plans and asked kids to share their work online through our Facebook...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
each situation, the actions he took, the results achieved, and the specific lessons he learned. He provides a helpful, realistic picture of what it means to achieve a rewarding and happy career without reaching the very pinnacle of one’s...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
competitiveness of America’s corporations. The lesson from our financial crises may be that it is not rules that are wanting but principles. Getting people to do things right has more to do with helping them understand a set of principles...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
instructive,” Fleishman continues. “Controlling health-care costs remains unresolved. From the standpoint of lessons learned, the Massachusetts experience underscores the reality that providing access to health care is necessary but not...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
lesson plans before they arrive, to building a special cafeteria to accommodate school groups, where three shifts of 450 students eat lunch almost every weekday. While McCarter is proud that the Field has increased the number of...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Africa to the HBS professors who are leading work related to the continent, and to share with them the lessons that Africa has for the rest of the world. Asia-Pacific Research Center—The Asia-Pacific Research Center helped produce the...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Thompson. “What we aim to do in the CSML program is to strengthen these capabilities. The job of a school leader is very different from the job of a teacher, and knowing how to do both of those jobs is critical to being a successful school leader.” CSML PARTICIPANTS:...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE...
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Deborah Blagg
- 28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Applegate, Pivot for Equity: Lessons from Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, based on her 2020 case, “Pivotal Ventures: Bending the Curve on Women’s Power and Influence.” The HBS Club of Connecticut (HBSCT), together with the HBS Club of...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations
of the many lessons Desai hoped the case would impart: the importance of having difficult conversations and approaching them with empathy. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, was inspired to write about the Tulsa...
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- 23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
“Schools need to keep evolving to stay relevant,” Condo observes. “You need to innovate, evaluate, and then apply lessons from that process to whatever you decide to add or change the next year. INCAE has really embraced that concept. If...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
on emerging geopolitical and economic trends, and on vital lessons from military history. You argue that it is not the war in Iraq or Islamic extremists who pose the greatest challenge to U.S. leadership in the coming decades, but rather...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Cofounder & Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1953 B.A., American Studies LIFELONG View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
access to Vanguard’s leaders, Ellis explains why Jack Bogle started Vanguard and how he and his successors grew it into an investment industry disrupter that became the global leader. Ellis includes in-depth interviews with the executives and key leaders of Vanguard,...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
pump and the B-17 bomber), the authors explain why including the customer is an essential ingredient of success for any team, company, or organization. Learn, Earn, Return: The Journey of a Global Entrepreneur by Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA 1954) and Shirley Spence (EFER)...
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