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10 Aug 2022
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Generosity Multiplied

not running the wildly successful recruitment firm, Reed is deeply involved with the Big Give, an innovative match-funding platform that hosts online fundraising appeals for charities. By engaging philanthropists and companies to match... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve

them to deliver play-based exercises and quizzes to parents and children several times a week. Parents upload photos and videos of the results, and teachers respond with gamified feedback like smiley face–based report cards. “We work with... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

09 Jan 2020
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Advancing Change

that change may be taking place somewhere beyond what you currently see. You have to be out there to see it. The new CEO in one of America’s major Fortune 20 companies encourages his executives to do at least one thing that’s new and... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

the question of where to apply it to a team of experts—tech gurus as well as specialists in asset management, regulation jurisdiction, and operations. The team eventually landed on private equity. O’Grady offers the example of a fund closing to illustrate its... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Aug 2001
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Class Day and Commencement 2001

employee in a new division, to Killick, who intends to launch his own start-up: "Being the first employee with a company with lots of money behind it is a pretty good deal; it's a little different than being the first employee in your own... View Details

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

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

and fir, but with an oddly shaped pockmark in the middle where a patch of cedars has been logged. Their replacements have not yet reached the height of their elder peers. Eamer was born in Nanaimo, located across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver, the son of a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

customer delivered pizzas. “If you can save me 20 minutes,” he told Frist, “you are saving me money.” Yoshi estimates that it can return 30 hours a year to the average car owner. Today, president and COO Frist, who splits his time between... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

01 Oct 1996
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Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)

purchased the company in 1993 and is itself being sold (with FTC approval) to Time Warner. As of this writing, Horn would only offer that he was "close to a deal." Despite the challenges, Horn remains... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

whom he regularly rubs shoulders. Instead, they include the likes of Dick Serafin, a production manager at Time Warner, and Sherill R. Heron and Jonathan A. Kraft, HBS classmates whose support he is "determined to pay back." Clinkscales's... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

I’ve had to really think hard about what it means to balance. Not only the most common interpretations, like work-life balance, but also the short view of being first to market to make sure you capture an opportunity versus the long view of executing something to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

01 Mar 2017
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Swimming with the Stream

just a jogging soundtrack. “How can I be the person people think of when they think about power and inspiration? How can I be the go-to destination for music and feminism?” she says. “The best companies are the ones that think, ‘How can I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

07 Mar 2019
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Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

David Benitez (OPM 46, 2014) is founder and president of Intelligent Mexican Marketing (IMM Latino), a company that provides a brand-building platform in the United States' Hispanic market by being the largest connectors of Latino... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit

CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

it. So the first is when companies identify top performers for us, right? And a lot of times we work with finance companies or technology View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

dating apps now, maybe five or 10 dates a week. So you really have to be good at making a first impression and standing out. And that's the same in job interviews or pitching your company to investors. You have to really know how to make... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

01 Sep 2003
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The Levitt Brand

colleague, interviewed Levitt for a special video presentation shown at the The Globalization of Markets colloquium. Noting that in 1983 Levitt’s HBR article had “created a firestorm of debate,” Greyser asked him to recall its impact at the View Details

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

01 Sep 2003
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The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case

student proposed a way to assess the possible risks of Gavin’s strategy: “Since this company is about the kids who use it, maybe you could send out a survey,” she suggested. Beaming at the exchange, Eisenmann told the class, “This is... View Details