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- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
had worked as a design engineer at Procter and Gamble, in addition to having cofounded a social enterprise that successfully commercialized biodegradable sanitary pads in India. Saigal started looking into the $10 billion diaper industry and View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
answer was yes, and the idea of an economic consultancy focused on helping businesses come to grips with blockchain, the metaverse, and other emerging tech, turned out not to be so crazy after all. Founded in 2018, Prysm employs 15 people...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
hard—one whose “cold calls” of drowsy students were merciless—that some of the most self-assured MBA candidates found her intimidating. But on this day, Frances nearly broke down. And several students teared up. “For leaders, earning...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass
count. There are many organizations nowadays that know how to count the numbers—but they still have cultures that are not inclusive. In your research, you found that many women in college today don’t see gender inequality as a career...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
a book about what Americans do best — founding and building new businesses," writes Tedlow, the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. "It is about men who broke old rules and made new ones, who built new worlds, who were...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
stars. Successful professional service firms are able to do this more or less consistently on a long-term basis. We found there are four critical aspects to managing these firms effectively: strategy, organization, culture, and...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
colonial bases. This will enable the USA to dominate the region and intervene in Saudi Arabia when the monarchy falls. But they will not aggravate ordinary Iraqis. Educated Iraqis are pragmatic. They can control the firebrands. What we View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to...
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- 02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled
a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral compass by taking the measure of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
choice: accept an attractive offer from the Boston Consulting Group or take on the task of turning around Union Corrugating Company (UCC), a corrugated steel roof-ing and siding manufacturer founded in 1946 by Union’s grandfather. Eleven...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
management.” — HBS professor Tom Eisenmann “One of the amazing and enduring characteristics of Howard over the years has been his incredible energy level, and his determination to make a difference in his teaching, in writing his many books, in producing new cases and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
infrastructure, and team. So many of my conversations with Reese, Lauren [Neustadter, Head of Film and Television] and other members of our team focus on: Is this the highest and best use of our time? We’ve found a model of collaborative...
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- 15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
school in the village of one of his former business partners. Also while at HBS Laguë met Charlene Li (MBA 1993), who today is founder and managing partner of the Altimeter Group, a technology consulting firm. Both played in the HBS Show band (he the trumpet, she...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
people. There was a study that was done on Fortune 500 executives, trying to figure out why some of them got promoted fastest. And the only commonality that could be found is that executives who tended to succeed faster than their peers,...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Entrepreneurship at HBS
read in this special Bulletin issue, our alumni have founded or helped to transform many important companies over the years. They have shaped the evolution of industries as diverse as cable television, microcomputer software, publishing,...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
a caregiver, Jurist-Rosner found both to be grossly insufficient and outdated. The Question: Early results of working with employers have been positive—with increased employee productivity, decreased absenteeism, and reduced costs. But as...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference
don't let work supersede the important things in your children's lives. Alumnae who have created unique careers shared their experiences during the second morning panel. Mary L. Burton (MBA '76) talked about the "soul-satisfying" work she has View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
In 1943 John H. Johnson sent a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt inviting her to write for Negro Digest, a fledgling magazine that he had recently founded with a $500 loan. The First Lady politely replied that she was too busy at the time....
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
challenging, painful at times, and really satisfying. I knew I always loved business, but it gave me the toughness and confidence to know I could go out and perform at a higher level.” At HBS, Royster also found his entrepreneurial...
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Jill Radsken