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- 25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission
domestic worker who had completed fourth and eighth grades, respectively. "They were not uneducated; they were self-educated," he says today. Influenced by the father of a friend and by teachers in school, Earls thought at various times... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
Unfortunately, there were huge discrepancies in the way circuit courts resolved these cases, so lawyers used to game the system to end up in front of a judge who they thought would be favorable to their case. Beyond that, Supreme Court... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
society—taken into account alongside its profits—will be a transformative step on the road to a more sustainable form of capitalism, according to Cohen. Thoughtful leaders will see this moment as a paradigm shift and an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
that this was not an uncommon note among others who attended and reached out to her. Julie Mulcahy (GMP 24, 2018), who helped organize the HBS Club of London’s event, added that Professor Serafeim led a very engaging conversation with the authors which sparked “a lot... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
to go to a good college (Carleton); you get a good job (General Mills); you go to a great MBA program (HBS); you take the highest-paying job you can get in the ‘hot’ field (consulting). That was the first time I actually thought about... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
celebratory fireworks. "We've always thought of OPM as a family, so it's wonderful to see all the families here tonight," he noted. "The friendships and relationships that are reinforced by class reunions are always fruitful, and we hope... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
jump over, and A-frames to climb up and down. Did you see Best in Show, the “mockumentary” about dog shows? Yes, I thought it was hilarious. Some of it was more accurate than I'd like to admit. People take the sport very seriously, but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
to really pull from my experiences of just tinkering and using anything to create prototypes. I was also really comfortable with the stages of prototyping and understanding that, when you first have a concept, it will eventually develop into something very different... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I also View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
television guests. As unassuming as her modest surroundings, Thomas-Graham is composed, polite, and thoughtful even as she answers questions in rapid-fire style. The switch from consultant to top TV executive may seem dramatic, but the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
book, because I honestly thought that the last thing the world needed was another business book. Laughs And although I liked to think I had something interesting to say, it’s a big deal to ask people to set aside ten hours of their life... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
start to get in trouble, I hand them back to their parents. I am quite realistic, I think, but I’m also optimistic in the sense that the world is full of problems. But I think we’re in a much better position now, despite all the complexities, than we were 30 or 40... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
afterward I thought it could really work. “We felt that this project just fit with our brand,” Simon adds. “At Terra, we’ve always taken chances. We made sweet-potato chips when everyone was making white potato chips, and we always push... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the idea to develop such a course? The inspiration came to me ten years ago, about the time I got tenure. As I reflected on my post-tenure plans, I wrote about my interest in how the financial sector works for regular individuals. At the time, my colleagues View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
on. The computing capabilities allow substantive technical material to be taught in a technical way, while at the same time, students follow the Socratic method in sharing different approaches for solving the problem. Who would have View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
a boy," he recounts. "At home, we ate rice and could only afford roti, a type of bread, on holidays. I thought my uncle must be rich, because his family ate roti every night. "I saw billboards for the first time and bragged to my friends... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
names such as The North Face, Patagonia, JanSport, Columbia, and others. “When I first looked at this industry, I thought the barriers to entry were quite low,” Coup recalls. “But what we have found is that the barriers are actually quite... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
thought you all cared about me." Now I realized that I have failed Bob in six really important ways. I have failed, first of all, to solicit feedback. I've failed to solicit both praise and criticism from Bob. So those are the first two... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
to be unattractive. Women—attractive or not—were least likely to successfully persuade investors. The paper grudgingly acknowledges that this type of bias on the part of investors may “not necessarily represent irrational marketplace behavior.” Although these biases... View Details
Keywords: April White