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Robert Duke Biederman
boardroom. I want to do things like that for my kids. When I was a little boy, my mom was a lawyer in private practice. She left work early and took me to the park for ice cream and a ride on the carousel. I want to build a company by day, but take my kids to the park... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
inclusive approach has helped to bridge differences and create new rules of engagement within and among Harvard schools and more than 750 scientists at eleven affiliated research hospitals,” the Boston Globe (June 11, 2007) reported. Reeve, whose half-brother was the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
highlight: Watching chairman Sean Combs launch the network from the front stoop of the late Notorious B.I.G.’s home on St. James Place in Brooklyn. Five words on Sean Combs: Incredibly market savvy, beautifully unreasonable. On... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier this year of roughly 140 alumni... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Paul Tranter
friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. I intend to make these verses my life mantra and always be ready, willing, and able to accept new challenges both in my professional and personal life. Tennyson's Ulysses again captures it... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
the introduction of color television. Then in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the two Japanese first-movers, Matsushita and Sony, and the Dutch company Philips, all of which had created strong learning bases after World War II, began to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
and contested each year over two weeks in late June and early July, Wimbledon, in many ways, had changed little over the years. Its showcase venue—the 15,000 seat “Centre Court,” complete with a “Royal Box”—was built in 1926. Slazenger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: After leaving England for Australia in late 1830s, John Fairfax began building a media empire. At its height, John Fairfax Limited held the Australian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge
medium-sized enterprises in the US and Canada who were surveyed on the Alignable networking platform in late March. The answers, gathered just before the US government announced tariffs on imports from countries worldwide, illustrate how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Career Services Shifts into High Gear
distress and its ripple effects on job seekers. In late September, MBA Career Services staff also traveled to New York to meet with members of the class who were immediately affected by the meltdown on Wall Street. “We put together a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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How DC is Taxing the Country
performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Nov 2013
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Selling Crafts with a Story
craft by employing the powerful effect of storytelling. It's proven powerful enough to put an end to those "pre-work" work meetings. In late 2012, Koss and Paranjape were able to walk away from their day jobs and pursue Brika full time.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
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Family Values
HBS is committed to ensuring that its learning model provides a powerful, integrated curriculum. A major new gift from the family of the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963) will help this effort as the School continues to prepare leaders... View Details
- 10 Nov 2018
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The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner
Ultramarathoner Eric Spector (MBA 1972) got a late start on the sport. As detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Spector started running while living in Manhattan, competing in his first New York City Marathon in 1979, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Carnival Queen
than the Zulu Queen at the Big Easy's celebration of Mardi Gras. The Zulu Queen presides for one year over the Zulu Organization, a New Orleans nonprofit that supports charities throughout the city. Rogers's reign is in honor of her late... View Details
- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
AND WHY DID YOU GET RE-INTERESTED IN WESTMORELAND? It was the late 1930s. My grandfather, cofounder of the Westmoreland Glass Co almost a half-century before, its president and majority stockholder, was ousted by the v.p./treasurer. The... View Details
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Chris LaColla
I was running late for my flight home to Chicago, but I was frozen in front of a small glass case in a museum in Tokyo. There was only one word on the sign using letters I knew– kintsugi. When a piece of pottery breaks, it is repaired... View Details
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William Donaldson | Baker Library
William Donaldson MBA 1958, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Play Video duration: 1:37:14 William “Bill” Donaldson, HBS 1958. Interview conducted in March 2002 William “Bill” Donaldson, HBS 1958, was one of the founders of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). In the View Details