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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
intentions and a sense of loyalty to a local organization. As for the foundations that distributed billions to nonprofits, they rarely held their beneficiaries accountable for results. Just as result-driven thinking entered the business View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
administrators, and students," he notes. Toward that end, Dobron and SA Technology Committee chair Judy Stahl (MBA '96) helped put into place the School's new information technology platform, which included establishing a site on the View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
Super Bowls a day for sixteen days." Track Records and a Marathon Sprint Frazier notes that for such an endeavor to succeed, the ability to rapidly build a cohesive entity - forming an institution - is of paramount importance. The...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
the most is my lead class that Nitin Nohria actually taught, because every day is about lead. How do I manage-- in the case of The Lego Movie, we actually have 1,000 people working on the movie in all different parts of the world from Los...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
Roedy, president, international, of MTV Networks, American record executives looking to MTV as a way to create a dominant world presence for American pop music (similar to the influence American movies...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
focusing on and expecting major growth with younger fans (especially ages 6–13), US Hispanics ("more of whom watched the last Super Bowl than the last World Cup final"), and women ("a strong group and getting stronger"). To reach the...
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- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
started as an altruistic concern for his family, however, led to a second career as cofounder of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland, an online database that has helped families around the world document their...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
choices we face. Regards, Dean Nitin Nohria I suspect there’s a great deal that most of us can agree on about capitalism. The free enterprise system, of which HBS is an essential part, has lifted billions of people around the world out of...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Aug 2002
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Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
John Brink (left) attended his last five reunions and came back for his 70th to “keep the record going and to see the old gang.” Brink said that times were tough when he was at HBS and that half the class didn't have jobs upon graduation:...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Results and Recognition
served as Reunion Participation Chair for his 20th Reunion, which set a record with 74 percent of the class making a gift. Donor Spotlights David Ott (MBA 1992) Investor David Ott understands the role that seed capital can play in taking...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?
Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
demand? Yes. At HBS today we have more than fifteen hundred users of the Wall Street Journal Interactive and close to two thousand users of OneSource Business Browser over the World Wide Web. At the same time we have seen a 38 percent...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
post-Olympics thoughts with the Bulletin during a September interview. Does ACOG deserve a gold, silver, or bronze for its performance? I'll leave that to the judges to decide. The record shows that we sold just over 8.6 million tickets,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Flight Path
Series B financing, led by Allianz, Sky, Liberty Media, Lux Capital, and World Wrestling Entertainment, in addition to partnerships with Swatch and FORTO Coffee Shots. July 2017 The hand-built DRL RacerX achieves a Guinness View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker
One day in July 1995, shortly after his appointment to head the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn took time out from a project visit in the African bush for an impromptu chat with a village official. For those present, it was a memorable sight:...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
completely engaging,” says Kim, a graduate of the University of Illinois. Interested in social enterprise, during his first year Kim met Nancy Barry (MBA ’75), former president of Women’s World Banking, at an HBS field study event. Barry...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Playing to Win
Seldom, if ever, has global competition been so glamorous, or so passionately beheld. At soccer's World Cup in France this summer, hundreds of thousands of spectators and a cumulative TV audience of 37 billion cheered and wept as 32...
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Garry Emmons