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- 01 Oct 1999
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The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
In a previous study of companies in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Deshpandé and colleagues from Tuck found that the most successful firms in these diverse countries had remarkably similar corporate...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect way to use her business skills...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
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What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
The search firm Ratio Advisors was founded last year on a simple but revolutionary concept: Starting a business with people who share your ideals can be as much of a driving factor as what that business does. As they spent time creating a...
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- 20 Jul 2017
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Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
ability to treat patients with targeted therapeutics within hours of being admitted to the hospital—on Day Zero. The five-member founding team includes two MD PhDs who specialize in infectious disease (Doug Kwon) and clinical pathology...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes
stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners (shareholders who serve on the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t...
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- 10 Oct 2018
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Building Paths to Success
Michael Traill’s (MBA 1987) change-of-life moment came early one sleepless Saturday morning in 2001. He found himself staring at the clock, which read 5:56 a.m., unable to sleep, too troubled by the plight of a boy he was coaching on his...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
changed my mind about that. We now seek 50-50 joint ventures with strong partners from whom we can learn -- leaders in their respective countries or regions who know the customers, governments, and cultures. We've found that when neither...
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- 24 May 2017
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John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Founding Cochair, Partners HealthCare 1995 Retires from HBS 1995 Named Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank 1997 John and Natty McArthur University Professorship established at Harvard 1999 McArthur Hall dedicated at HBS 2002...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
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Tune In for a Management Tune-Up
"If you've ever sat staring at a blank computer screen while the clock ticks away on your report deadline, you know what writer's block can feel like." So begins a typical daily segment of "Ideas @ Work," an innovative audio feature that can be View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Joint Venture
In this issue of the Bulletin, our focus is on HBS’s “intellectual ambition.” Since its founding in 1908, the School has been committed to creating and disseminating intellectual capital that will help define, strengthen, and improve...
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- 07 Mar 2017
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From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
(via INSEAD.edu) In a wide-ranging interview for the St. Gallen’s Symposium, published by the Huffington Post, Dr. Olivier Giscard D’Estaing (MBA 1951) talks about the deep roots of HBS within the foundation of INSEAD, the European business school where he served many...
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- 19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress
similarity and difference you found across two buckets, the four races that you researched of Black, Latinx, Asian, and Caucasian, and then on the generational side between the four generations of boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z....
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- 01 Jun 2011
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New Leadership for Executive Education
executives charged with spearheading the company’s executive development efforts, including a global diversity and inclusion transformation. At BP, she created a comprehensive leadership development program, expanded existing emerging talent activities, and was...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Restoring Order
founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
School’s Leadership Initiative. But there’s another way to assess business success, as found in the pages of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Mayo (MBA ’88) is the book’s coauthor, with HBS...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Minding Families' Business
guidance," de Gaspé Beaubien says. In 1993, mindful of the challenges facing such families, he and his family founded a nonprofit organization, the Institute for Family Enterprise. Based in Montreal, the Institute (of which he serves as...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2010
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A Remarkable Life Story
didn’t help her self-esteem when she fumbled her first cold call. Not one to hold a “pity party,” Lambert joined an effort in 1967 to recruit black students from other schools (the number swelled 450 percent in the Class of 1970) and was a View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
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An Entrepreneur of the Arts
moved to the United States in 1993 and settled in Chicago. An early blooming entrepreneur, Efimova founded Russian Pointe, her first company, in 1998 while she was a junior in college. Russian Pointe, a brand of luxury ballet shoes, is a...
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