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- 01 Mar 2016
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Case Study: Paper Chase
that they’ve sold so well. Your brand (and name, no less!) are set up for pop-up retail—your entire “shop” could be set up as a “reveal” and add an element of surprise and experiential delight wherever you...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
around the country to vie for the title of Space Invaders national champion. Thousands had played the video game, released that year in the United States by Warner brand Atari, in regional tournaments in the months leading View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit
and an interest in health-care management. She currently teaches the required course General Management and the Foundations module Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. Twenty-five years after her own graduation, Barrett notes that...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000....
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
and fundraising for scholarships to attend social enterprise-focused Executive Education programs or fellowships for MBA students. While HBS alumni clubs worldwide have long been engaged in their local communities, their activities have ramped View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer...
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- 30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
advantage of opportunities to pursue a lifelong passion for collecting modern and contemporary art—and not just paintings, drawings, and photographs. Among the several thousand pieces of art van Caldenborgh has collected over the years...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
studies (see sidebar). I recently had a chance to talk with Nohria about his formative years, the opportunities he sees ahead for the School, and his views on the role of business in society. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. What was life like...
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Roger Thompson
- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
tract. Seated at his camp desk day after day, the weeks turning into years, he recorded in his smooth, plain script a huge body of work. His surviving papers, almost by themselves, constitute a military history of the Revolutionary War. During his first four View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the film Lawrence of Arabia,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
than 40 years of teaching and managing, and illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the reader...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Kierstead. “The impact of the Fellowship Program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the success of the School, cannot be overstated,” she adds. “A number of students have come up to me and said, ‘I...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of this approach is time. We live...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Although she had nearly thirty years of on-the-job experience, Deborah Richardson still was thrilled to be selected for a weeklong HBS Executive Education course for nonprofit leaders in July 2003. “I had many ‘eureka’ moments when I was...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally
all of which found its way back into the HBS curriculum.” Staffing the program, however, was no easy task. “People were dragged kicking and screaming — I agreed to go because I was coming up for tenure,” he says with a smile. “Yet each of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
additional vans and new production lines to keep up with demand and geographic expansion. But beyond the short-term phenomenon, Behn believes there is no going back, because the supermarket concept is 50 or 60 View Details