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- 01 Dec 1999
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Water, Water Everywhere
right to have it," Mark explained. "But not much has been done to increase the supply and quality of the supply of water and to be able to economically allocate it to the right locations." Mark grew up on a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung
Not many newly minted MBAs would hesitate if they were asked to play a major role in shaping the future of a multimillion dollar company, but 25 years ago, William Fung Kwok Lun wasn't sure it was the right choice for him. "When I got out... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 09 Jan 2020
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Advancing Change
How can we foster this kind of leadership? Universities have a role to play when they replace the ivory tower with the goal of serving society. Universities can bring together groups of people that are highly diverse, with a range of backgrounds and ages. The View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
just absolutely wonderful,” says Janet Stark (MBA 1982), Board Chair for the HBSWANY, and organizer of the event. “After the play, we all just circled around Gloria and had this great conversation. She stayed with us for a while, and even walked around with the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
behavior of the customers is so vastly different that having the same policy often doesn’t make sense. It’s very much like you’re selling a certain type of product in Japan and China: different markets with different competitors and different price structures. Just... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
and lots of wasted energy. With blockchain, every party could validate their portions of the transaction securely, remotely, and quickly. “Right there, you say, ‘OK, there’s clearly an opportunity.’ ” Before it could start, Northern Trust had to get the tech View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
company’s e-commerce infrastructure. Beyond these advances, however, he has little interest in outgrowing his company’s family-run origins. “Our employees count on us and our customers count on us, and we try to do right by them,” he... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job
So anyway, that was the worst job. Grace Wade (MBA 2009): My name is Grace Wade, formerly known as Grace Licorice, which is class of 2009, section D. So, I was working at a Fortune 500 company, and I had just started—so this is before my HBS career, so it was View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
this, comes from Steve Jobs and is that, “Follow your heart, but check it with your head.” So take that passion, but make sure that you have the ability to pull back at the right points on the reigns to go and think and inject some head... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go
can build a multibillion-dollar business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of candidates with the View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change
$10,000 per year, a response so enthusiastic Evans nearly had to tamp down fundraising to get infrastructure in place. "There is an appetite for innovation and creativity right now," she says, "and people want to explore the current human... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights
showed the right level of conviction." A summer internship at Goldman Sachs resulted in a job offer. But when Petzel learned of an opening in another division that appealed to him more, he turned down the first offer and had to reapply.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription
needs of aging baby boomers and the time being right for consumer-driven health care? Yes. These are people who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s and were very successful in bringing about social change in this country. They know how... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
fact that my parents had a home that was right on the glide path going into LaGuardia Airport. We used to look up and see the airplanes going by, and I think they had an impact on me as a kid. My parents also, when I was 15, decided to go... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
considered selling your company?’ He replied, ‘Well, no, not until just now.’ Within days, I had an option to buy it.” Upon hearing this oft-told story, many people evidently have marveled aloud at how “lucky” Rogers was to be at the View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
2009, we were both in section D. Go D! The dinosaurs. As anyone who’s been to HBS knows, you get to know the people who are in your section extremely well. Michelle really stood out as someone who was really trying not just to score points by asking questions in class... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
des Autodidactes (VDA)—the self-made entrepreneurs award—held in Paris on May 14. “This event celebrates self-made entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized companies who started working right after high school,” explains Alexandra Mannai... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
A. Sahlman, she found her voice. “Though I often knew the right answer, I never raised my hand in class. Bill came to me and asked me to present a case, which I did. Then he said, ‘I want to hear more of you’ and from that day on, I had... View Details
- 13 May 2014
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Inside Africa
look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as constitutional law, public protection, and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman