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learn leadership.” She chose the Air Force because it had the highest percentage of career fields open to women. After two years stationed in Florida, Frances then spent six years in Nevada working with remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs or... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Strike Up the Broad(band)

What did Time Warner have that AOL wanted? According to many industry observers, the driving force behind the proposed megamerger was AOL's strategic need to acquire access to the media giant's broadband hardware. HBS professor Stephen P.... View Details

March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
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Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo

In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience and Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-Life Balance; Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence; Personal Development and Career; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States

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Brendan Mosher

Raytheon, helping the Transportation Security Administration ramp up the roll-out of whole body imagers, in the wake of the attempted "underwear bombing" in Chicago. "In one year," Brendan notes, "the program... View Details

29 Nov 2018
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"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

When James Correa was coming to the conclusion of his military service as a logistics officer (Captain) in the US Army, "There was only one desire for a professional career that I was sure of -- to continue a career in leadership." With no particular View Details

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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

black; border-left:none" valign="top"> Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Topics covered include advanced materials, advanced View Details

30 Jan 2006
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The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

Patterson, and book clubs. In nineteenth-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops to market and waited for people to buy them, much as the publishing industry today ships books to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

17 Jun 2016
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Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

behavior would not sit well at the annual industry association meeting and your holier-than-thou superiority claim might tempt fate and attract a terrorist attack. If anything, safety is downplayed as pre-flight instructions to airline... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

thousand hours in the F/A-18 Hornet. Flying from the USS Harry S. Truman during the Iraq campaign, he was in charge of fifteen to twenty other pilots and was awarded the Air Medal and two Navy Commendations for combat valor. Lloyd’s of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

29 May 2006
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Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

one of America's best-managed companies. By the 1990s, GE's Appliance and Lighting businesses required careful attention to costs given mature industries and highly unionized labor forces. Its Aircraft Engines, Power Systems, View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would exacerbate inflation, place... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

they were disproportionately coming from Chelsea, Revere, and East Boston. I think in this case the social determinants include living in crowded housing conditions, where the ventilation and air quality are not as good and which seems to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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LaToya Marc

wanted a stable job that could provide that," she says. LaToya excelled at math, and both her father (who served in the Air Force) and her high-school guidance counselor encouraged her to go into engineering. At the Georgia Institute... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Summer 2018
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Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor

By: Daniel P. Gross

Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope... View Details

Keywords: Technology Diffusion; Spatial Technology Diffusion; Farm Tractors; R＆D; General-purpose Technologies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Transportation; Research and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the View Details

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