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- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of Jhunjhunu. More than 100,000 young...
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Jennifer Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach
WWE’s pay-per-view model wasn’t failing. It was still a viable model. But as Wilson began diving deep into consumer habits after joining WWE 10 years ago, she saw some distinct trend lines: “Our fan base was over-indexed for video...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
settling in the area two and a half years ago. She conceived of and hosted the club's first Decade Party for alumni who had graduated within the past ten years, welcoming sixty young alumni and signing up...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2007
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Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a...
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- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
and had little leverage to force the company to lower the price of electricity and offer green energy. “We are ready to take up these fights on behalf of the communities,” Riley says. One of the first was in northern New Mexico, where the...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home
officials regarded us as too risky to deal with,” says Stuntz. Greentech eventually set up shop in Worcester, forty miles west of Boston, in a former trolley-car factory. With a place to call home, the company finally graduated to the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Transforming Baker Library
from HBS. The plan was developed over the next year following discussions with faculty, staff, and MBA and doctoral students. To come up with the design, HBS tapped Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the firm...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
implementation. By facilitating execution, leaders drive growth and innovation. While some leaders define themselves by how much they accomplish, they don’t always get employees on board when it comes to getting things done. They may be great strategists and come View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark
Abernathy, we used our experiences in the auto industry in Japan to better understand what was going on in productivity, quality, and innovation. I became an inveterate comparatist. And I've never met a researcher who's had a similar experience who didn't wind View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
Suchismita had resolved that she was going to open a bank account. "That morning," Nundy recalls, "Suchismita spent hours in preparation, bathing and dressing up as if for a wedding. As we drove to the bank, she told me it was the first...
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- 14 Sep 2015
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Helping Investors Have an Impact
make a difference and give back to society. And that in itself was highly rewarding and fulfilling for me. “When I grew up in the Philippines, I experienced a contrast between poverty and material wealth. And throughout my View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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No Small Beer
Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984), and Marcel Telles (OPM 10, 1985)—acquiring or rolling out new craft beer divisions in the past few years to keep up with consumers' changing palates. Here's a look at some of the HBS...
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- 02 Mar 2017
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Such Great Heights
the mountains, and being in snow, and eventually climbing glaciers was something that was just sort of a natural outcome for me. White: So you were climbing for years before you turned your hobby into a job. Tell me about your career...
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- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
caught the entrepreneurial bug. She realized she was passionate about solving problems with new and innovative solutions. Three years later, the newly married Skeete Tatum applied to HBS to pivot to venture capital, and convinced her...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1996
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The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
Bulletin: Is it difficult to find such outstanding people, given that so many other institutions and programs are competing for topflight candidates? Fadule: Harvard Business School received a record number of applications for the Class of 1998 -- 8,050, View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way
celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase
be successful doing that and also be the kind of mom that I grew up with, which was a stay-at-home mom. So, we came up with the bright idea – actually, my husband encouraged me – to buy a small business. And...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
Christ Church in Washington's Georgetown section, in fact, where she met Jay when they both signed up to volunteer in a soup kitchen. After marrying in 1991 and several years of trying to have a child, they...
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Young, Susan
- 01 Jun 2007
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Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
remarks, Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at KSG, lamented the performance of Washington pols. “As a group, the people running Washington over the last twenty years have failed,” creating a backlog of...
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