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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
Like many horse racing fans, I was disappointed when Big Brown met defeat at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7. After the bay colt’s impressive wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, railbirds were hopeful that he would be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
tract. Seated at his camp desk day after day, the weeks turning into years, he recorded in his smooth, plain script a huge body of work. His surviving papers, almost by themselves, constitute a military history of the Revolutionary War. During his first View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
them to focus on. Recognizing that there's a lot of big wins people are making right now because their emissions are dropping because they're not going on those long trips that they had planned on doing otherwise and thinking more about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
irony Edwards savors with a smile: “At several public meetings at the White House, President Bush has referred to me as ‘my congressman.’” But not for much longer if the Republican Party has its way. The GOP painted a big target on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
national study on the efficacy of charter schools, and the results were jarring: Just 17 percent of charter schools outperformed their traditional public-school peers, while 37 percent performed significantly worse. And while charter performance has improved in the... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
big and you see Denali on the horizon and the distance, and then you ski into the Alaska range. So all of a sudden you're in this huge, incredible mountain ridge and you're in deep narrow valleys and in gorges, but then you have sections... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
(MBA 1950). “I learned a lot at Preco,” says Stevenson, who spent four years at the company. “Meeting payrolls, dealing with unions, learning accounting, all in a less-than-glamorous environment — it was a good education.” As Stevenson... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
so what is the mission? What is the tactical plan to get this done? It’s in four phases. The first phase is the analytical phase. This is where we take a blood sample, a muscle biopsy from my brother to dive into the details of what is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
fast-food joints proliferate. Globalization and downsizing affected blue- and white-collar workers alike. “Layoff” used to mean “temporary unemployment”; now it meant “loss of job.” David McNew/Getty Images If we worked only four hours a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
improvement, and, ultimately, competitive advantage," he says. IBM's Global Workforce Diversity programs suggest how that process can work. In receiving the Ron Brown Award in the area of "Employee Initiatives," Big Blue, which is also... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Rothschild’s private placement group), took an interest in her and became a mentor. After graduating, Brown worked at CSFB in New York for four years in real estate and private equity before enrolling at HBS. Last summer, she worked in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a blue-haired magician named LeBlanc across the Fields of Justice, hurling spells at the enemy’s minions. He narrates the chaotic game, often profanely, as he and his four teammates confront their opponents, another team of gamers. Each... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique challenges that many of its neighboring... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
don’t have clubs about mental health,” adds another. “Some other schools are working on these kinds of things, and we’ll be glad to be an advocate for that with your principal,” Langford says. “Don’t think there’s any question or issue that’s too View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
sophisticated that it can basically fly itself. If everything goes right in an Airbus A380 flight, the pilot will fly the plane for about eight minutes-- four minutes when it takes off, four minutes when it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
culture—fixing it will take courage. “I can tell you who’s going to win. That’s going to be the ones that resist their insular tendencies, like male gamers creating for male gamers, because that’s not the customer anymore.” Bond is looking at these View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the cockpit of my jet, I’m so keyed up I consciously try to slow myself down as I go through all the pre-launch procedures. Waiting to be catapulted into the darkness over the Arabian Sea, I’m not thinking about my mortality. I just feel butterflies in my stomach —... View Details