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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
alongside money from mainstream business malpractice. One common technique for moving large sums of illict money, Baker asserts, is falsified pricing in international trade. Invoices can be written to reflect one price, while still... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
The truism “opposites attract” is something everyone has heard, but it’s forgotten in amateur matchmaking. People base their setups on similarities, not complementary differences. That creates commonality... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
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Showing Girls the Possibilities
Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) is the former chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands and serves on a number of corporate boards. In this interview, she talks about another, more personal focus of her efforts and energies. “If I... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
pressure kills creativity, and others say that they do their most creative work when they are under serious time constraints. But our data indicates that the relationship is more nuanced. In the workplaces... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules
Courtesy Gorick Ng Courtesy Gorick Ng A first-generation college student and professional, Gorick Ng became a self-taught master of trial and error from an early age. When he was 14, his mother—a single parent—lost her job at a sewing-machine factory and Ng, as View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Swimming with the Stream
some point.” Release day Old Model: Use videos to build buzz New model: Use videos to make sales When she was working as a digital analyst at Interscope Records before HBS, Gandhi identified a common pattern: Labels would first release a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s exploration of democracy-related issues. Making Democracy Work VP: The rise of populism takes different forms, but it has reached many... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of... View Details
- 13 May 2013
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Tied Together by the Times
says. And, as the 11 records that the class holds show, the classmates on the other end answer the call. Yanow... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes
improvements in the lives of common people had “evolved during the period of relatively unfettered ‘big business.’ ” Far from diminishing the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
companies—one focused on manufacturing and one focused on fashion? “It’s refreshing in many ways! I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work in two very different industries. While there might not be much View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
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Going with the Flow
finds time to serve on boards—including at her husband’s beverage company—and oversee another startup in health care. Fisher jokes that her career has been about “liquid assets”—blood, water, and beer—but she says the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
Gates said, does many things well, but the inspiration for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation came in part from a market failure in health-care delivery. Individuals who live in areas where tuberculosis,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing
operate in the Commonwealth,” Porter told some eighty CEOs and leaders of biotech, health-care, government, and academic entities gathered at HBS. He argued that Massachusetts needs a coherent strategy based on a View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
This means that the “process” of economic governance is as vital to success as the policy—and requires prioritizing things like stakeholder engagement, meaningful participation, openness and transparency,... View Details