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15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

will become the reader’s greatest asset in creating lasting, positive change in their relationship with food and health. Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known By Amar Bhidé (DBA, 1988, MBA 1979) Oxford University Press Uncertainty—doubt about what is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

03 Jul 2024
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Surviving the Iditarod

that you have to know about the ITI is that while there is a set course, as in you have to start in a certain spot, you have to finish in a certain spot and you have to hit checkpoints along the way. There is no set trail, so it's entirely up to you how you get from... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

ambition and great expectations." Alumni Message Boards While the campus community came together to cope in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, members of the extended HBS community did the same. Given that two of the attacks... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

located on the company's front lines, many are feeling the need to push the strategy process deeper into the organization. At the top of the company, the critical task is to frame strategy within a broader sense of purpose — according to Bartlett, "a stretching View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

to take over the show. Singer had been told that writing a spec script was the way to break into the business, so he wrote a spec West Wing, which happened to be one of his favorite shows. “The writing probably wasn’t very good, but I think John liked the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

and a place that valued the environment, he says. “And frankly, it used to be the best place in the world to live or work or retire or come for holidays. So I set my ambitions very high.” Mitsotakis is confident that capital won’t be the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

only producing 240 million pounds a year. You would serve one customer.” That 50-ton-a-day mark is a real goal, says Lo, and the Dubai farm will be a big proof of concept. And while any company’s world-saving ambitions can resemble... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

where you’re aiming. That sort of fearlessness and ambition carried David through.” Another lesson occurred further into the company’s history. On the Friday before Christmas in 1990, van Bever and three other top-level managers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

for that same promotion that you’ve been working towards for a couple of years, that you have all the same professional ambitions that you did before Your boss, not from a place of malice, but your boss may say, oh gee, well, hmm, this... View Details

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