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Brandon Gayle
In the 1970s, Brandon Gayle's family left Jamaica for New York State, where they settled in Rochester. "I watched my mother build her career over time," Brandon says, "from serving as a bookkeeper at a local television... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made their start-up pitches to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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The Meaning of Ramadi
friends and comrades no longer have any tomorrows, because they bled their lives out on some nameless street in some nameless city, you begin to value every day and to give your best, because you know that tomorrow is not ensured. You... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a cloud-based software system,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap
questions are finally focusing on the health-care needs of the poor. Some teams, for example, are working on genetic modifications that would render the mosquito unable to transfer malaria. Those developments make Daar and Singer optimistic. “We contend that if we can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
roots. We don’t expect any of our strengths to change. Our new relationship with Constellation Brands, however, will create opportunities—some of which we’re just beginning to explore. As noted in my first... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
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The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS
one of my closest friends and fellow section presidents, Thalia, at one of these events at the beginning of our first year. And one year later, we’re still in the dorms, now as next-door neighbors in Gallatin Hall. On a random Monday,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Commemorating a Milestone
STYLE SHIFT: Women brought a new look to the campus. A half-century ago, women were first admitted to the two-year MBA Program at HBS. Over the coming months, the School is highlighting this event—and focusing on women leaders in business... View Details
Keywords: Meta
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
50-Plus Years of Entrepreneurship I was disturbed by the June Bulletin's infographic showing that HBS had been teaching entrepreneurship for only 50 years (page 7). As a student at HBS, I took Management of New Enterprises, an excellent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
a limited time. Many of its products sell out the first time they’re offered, and a majority of the revenues come from first sales. So the question of how to price new products is an important one, but there’s no historical sales... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
a “sweet spot” for faculty development is their intense blend of research and teaching, which in turn promotes innovative thinking, according to George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Associate professors typically View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
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Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
(MBA 1986) said, “Pokemon GO will be the dawn of a new generation of Augmented Reality startups” and classmate David Kenny predicted Pokemon GO is “just the beginning of mingling real and virtual worlds.”... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
Street Partnership was an amazing way to start a career,” says Zuckerberg, whose job included facilitating interactions with city agencies. “Dan is a dynamo. Nothing’s impossible to him. His leadership made us feel as if there was nothing wrong with View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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Rocio Parra
careers at CPG companies where they gained great experience and a strong reputation for building brands. I decided that beginning with a career in CPG marketing would be a great foundation to many different career paths in the future.... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 1998
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Mark Tatum
baseball at Cornell, he is passionate about sports. (One of his fondest memories, in fact, is of the day his high school team took the New York City public school championship at Yankee Stadium.) Tatum got his first taste of combining his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
disciplined approach that systematically confronts each one. To begin with, Beer and Eisenstat recommend that the CEO or general manager create a partnership between their top and lower-level managers, engaging the entire organization in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Apr 2014
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The Puzzle of Life
"I think the human race is beginning to unravel what life is," says Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999). "I find that intellectually fascinating." His interest, and a desire to make a difference, led Farquharson to the life sciences industry,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect
philanthropy, organized by Professor William Sahlman. He and Armour have also attended several conferences on the HBS campus devoted to nonprofits working to fight specific diseases. Attendees come away with new ideas, information, and a... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush