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- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
growth in developing countries,” she observes. “I’m very determined in what I’m going to do, even if it takes a little longer to get there.” — JH Julian Flannery Flannery When serendipity knocks, Julian Flannery isn’t afraid to answer. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
entrepreneurship, neither really understanding it nor teaching or researching it in a committed fashion. To its credit, from the School’s earliest years on, Deans Gay, Donham, and David had encouraged research on the importance of innovators to business. Interest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
policy, military strategy, and the development of the American West. As a member of the House from 1795 to 1801, he was the first powerful congressman who lived on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains. When Jefferson made him... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled
the scenes that really stuck with me was in 1942. Your father joins the Merchant Marines and then he's immediately called into service, because we're in the middle of World War II at that point. And then he left you with the Catholic... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very human. She began to View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
going to be taken into the receivership process and liquidated or restructured. “One thing the critics don’t fully acknowledge is the world we live in right now,” continues Moss. “It’s one of massive implicit guarantees that are... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
with them long enough (because they weren’t very well-managed), if you’ll stay with them long enough, we’ll do it. So what I did is I got MEDA, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, to lend them money to pay their taxes. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
wicks biological fluids, such as blood or saliva, through treated paper to provide instant diagnostic results in parts of the developing world where lab facilities are nonexistent. In its first application,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
scar tissue. And I wondered first, what that looked like to you and how you noticed it. And then a little bit about why you think empathy, that characteristic, is so important for leaders. JI: I think empathy is being really able to see the View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
Everything depends on oil: Without a boost in output, there will be insufficient electricity, little money, and few well-paying jobs. Production is still below 1990 levels. But sanctions and secrecy are gone. Iraq’s urgent need is to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
consume, with trustworthy, high-quality, fact-based content widely available. We’ve morphed into the very strange world we live in now; but that’s created opportunities for companies like ours to go back to basics, to what news and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
they care and that they’re looking for answers too. “So is it like, our age subgroup that has, like, the majority of overdose problems?” one girl asks tentatively. No, says Langford—but many start using as teens. They go to rehab and then relapse, View Details