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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
had a very simple cheer. We all made a capital I with our hands and arms and shouted "I I I I I.” Very sophisticated! 1997B’s “Jambo!” (“Hello” in Swahili) 1998I’s “Banzai!” 1999A had a cheer, as did all of the other '99 sections. Ours... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
about in startups, the burn rate that they have. The amount that they’re burning cash. This is the personal burn rates that we go and take on for ourselves. How much are we burning cash in our personal lives? That’s on the financial side,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women
From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards worked and the skills needed to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 08 Aug 2013
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Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her classmates, Langer began her employment in the financial industry, joining Shearson Lehman Brothers as an investment banker. "I was specializing with retail companies: Federated Department Stores, Macy's, Barneys New York. It was just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
People like me who were born in places like India and came here to study didn’t plan to go home.” What a difference a few decades have made. Tectonic shifts in geopolitics and business have profoundly reshaped thinking about management education. China, under Deng... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
1,000 people in 180 cities around the world. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to two of Cloudflare’s founders, Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) and Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), about how the business began 10 years ago in the midst of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India
the constraints of each country and how to link the two in “corporate symbiosis,” something few have yet to master, says Khanna. Do multinationals lack the knowledge about China and India they need to do business there? Absolutely. But... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
with a “t.” $68 trillion of wealth transferring from baby boomers and older generations to millennials and younger generations over the next 25 years. Most studies suggest that 80 percent or more of the heirs of that wealth will look for a new View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
a huge opportunity for those coming out of this with some financial strength, because I don’t think people’s desire to have food away from home is going to fundamentally shift. It may take a while to get back to the same levels of demand... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, concluded the four-day program with a fast-paced lecture on his current research in the area of strategy. "I found particularly useful his idea that companies have to make tradeoffs. They... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Valley-- It was basically, a bunch of kids that had a shared interest in emerging technology that really, needed a lot of people to get together to shape it into something. And back in the-- I think-- it was the '70s through the mid '80s,... View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
Mrs. April Estes is the widow of Richard Estes. He started his business to serve and counsel African American families who had been turned away from white funeral parlors and needed help burying their dead. AE: We’ve been the only Black... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the small startup, and they were unable to effectively convert the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
for properties in Lagos’s well-to-do neighborhoods, but even there the power grid is so unreliable that tenants need to supply their own generators. Local suppliers were limited, so Dozie and his brother had furniture made to order and... View Details