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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative’s advisory board, having...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
walked into a dorm full of girls shooting down the banisters in bare feet and ripped jeans.” Just do it: “I’ve found that there’s never a perfect path to achieving our vision. We’re always torn between planning and doing. It’s in...
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- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
specially configured, nuclear-powered submarine, a “spook boat” that was engaged in covert operations. He found his naval service rewarding, but when his five years of active duty were up, it was time to move on. “I thought that being an...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
Founded in 1865, with roots in the abolitionist movement, The Nation has, ironically, enjoyed fairly constant support from wealthy benefactors. This despite its anti-establishment posture, although the magazine’s politics, Navasky...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley
week there will be some kind of evening function as well, which I don’t particularly enjoy but know I need to do. In this job, there’s really no one to tell you how to proceed. At first I found that a bit unsettling, but now I understand...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall
virtually any metropolitan center these days, unsecured “hot spots” can be found and exploited. It is, he says, an example of “the twin–headed dilemma of new technology — introducing better productivity and novelty into the workplace...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
unconscious, but that was the way it was. And those were the kinds of things they had to contend with. [MUSIC] JH: In her understated way, Tosh Barron has worked to improve the experience of women on boards, whether through her own example or as a View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Lessons from a Megacity
with Senior Lecturer John Macomber’s new field method course Building Cities, part of the Immersion Experience Program (IXP) in the MBA Elective Curriculum. That’s how Schultz and her three teammates found themselves navigating between...
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- 21 May 2016
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The Age of Consignment
article highlights the efforts of online fashion resellers Material Wrld, founded by Rie Yano and Jie Zheng (both MBA 2010), and thredUP, founded by Christopher Homer and James Reinhart (both MBA 2009) as...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing....
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- 01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
have numerous criticisms of overpaid chief executives and those sorts of things; but in these interviews, we found a lot of leaders who are very sincerely interested in the welfare of their societies, who out of genuine concern do a lot...
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- 24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
event can be found here.) "I knew a lot of people who died," Beyaz said. "My cousin and her husband, two beautiful people who left behind two wonderful kids; and also classmates, friends. My childhood home collapsed." Beyaz added that his...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
little envious” when he compares the cost structure of his son’s operation with his own. “I’m a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club,” he stresses, “but I have to acknowledge that some regulations create a disincentive to manufacturing in the United States.”...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
implications for the workplace. When hiring a person from outside one’s firm, for example, Gino has found that focusing on a candidate’s achievements can preclude consideration of the role of circumstance and context in the individual’s...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman
banks is a big step in that direction. How do you approach philanthropy? I’m a big believer in giving back. We all have an obligation to leave things better than where we found them. I have more than I’ll ever need, and more than my...
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
and Equinox formalized its role as a founding partner. In turn, the acceleration of growth became exponential, turning a family-run fundraiser into a philanthropic juggernaut. Cycle for Survival events have now taken place around the...
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- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great Recession began to take...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Five-Star Research
data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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New Orleans Resonance
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New...
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