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- 14 Jul 2010
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The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
boost sales. —Lisa Putukian (MBA 1988) This is essentially a critical safety product in its present form: Every runner should have it. Dehydration leads to overheating, which easily leads to organ damage. Focus on the mass hydration safety market; don’t View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found....
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
presented themselves, and I go with my gut,” says Bandourian. “You’ve got to live your life in a way that you don’t regret anything.” — MK Alex Andreichuk Civil engineer, soldier, investment banker Andreichuk An unexpected tour of duty in Iraq may have View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
the military, I took those lessons with me to Bristol-Myers Squibb and then to HBS. We were in class when 9/11 happened. I was a reservist. A few weeks later I got a call saying I was being returned to active duty, and then my activation was View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
inventory. The problem with that is you might have strategic consumers who delay their purchase of a pair of sandals, for example, to take advantage of the discounted price. Whereas if you didn’t use a markdown, then—who knows?—maybe...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
principles to help counteract this trait: seeking truth persistently, accepting personal responsibility, and delaying gratification (i.e., accepting present pain for future benefit). These ideas, he acknowledges, are stressed in nearly...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
Purchasing directly from producers instead of relying on a middleman lowers the cost of sourcing, for instance. Relying on its own fleet of trucks enables the company to pick up produce just before shipping, avoiding the cost and delay of...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
brand as it marches into other segments. I recommend that Ario delay entry into other markets. It should first define a segment, build strong enthusiasts, and then branch out. Just as Under Armour has coined or leveraged the term...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course
meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is necessary to fix the delay...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
future. If terrorism continues in America, it will take longer for consumer confidence to come back and will delay the return to a robust economic cycle. In terms of what economic decisions ordinary citizens can make to support the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care
creates delay and duplication. Individuals must own their record, and the health plan is the place to assist each subscriber by pulling all the parts of his or her record together. What do we do about 45 million uninsured people? We need...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
It delayed our timeline two weeks." A few tables away, Christopher Gilligan (HBS '00) was dressed in hospital scrubs, reeling in passersby to show them his new service, EKGStat.com. The brainchild of Gilligan, a surgical resident at...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
structure, making data collection difficult and delaying the alarm bells that signal an oncoming crisis. Ivashina points to the fact that no one understood the scope of the exposure banks had to subprime mortgages in 2008 until it was too...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
(twenty years in the United States), and the other is the solidity of the patent. Regarding length, it’s a sensitive point. If we have delays in FDA regulatory approval because more questions are being asked, or if we are more diligent...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
fixing the problems? And maybe my answer would have been different 15, 20 years ago, but I think increasingly I believe that the answer is no. There is a groundswell of great people who are working to solve our fundamental problems, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
creates jobs back here. It’s not a matter of us or them “winning.” Fewer people will be employed in the United States if we don’t investigate what’s happening in Asia and the Middle East. That’s where the markets are now. One issue that’s dogged you recently is a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays and...
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