Set Of Priors - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis

Almost two years ago, HBS professor Michael Y. Yoshino embarked on a study in Southeast Asia. Little did he know the twists and turns the region - and his research - would take. With Southeast Asia's economy booming, Yoshino, an expert in global strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

that no matter how many people say no, you keep saying yes,” remarks Leiman. The pair made the decision to set up two separate companies under the Blink umbrella — one for business operations and the other to own and lease the planes to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Dec 2017
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Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

support further by naming HBS as a beneficiary of their will. “HBS unleashed my entrepreneurial spirit. I feel compelled to give back to the place that set me on the path to a unique and satisfying career,”... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis

early-stage consumer tech company; and we didn’t have a good way to distribute our product. Today Teespring is doing the same thing Cameesa did. It’s worth hundreds of millions. The idea for TalkBin came from listening to our customers.... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Dec 2016
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The Story Behind the Stories

Marines looked at me with, kind of, that same expression, like you don't know anything. Of course, women have been out there for years. And I took that as a challenge because I think every great book, every great story starts with a... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber coalition touted the achievement,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

prosper. We know that many white banks, for example, the Bank of Italy, they were the beneficiary of the federal government after the Second World War saying that, "We want to create a middle class in... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Getting Smart About Philanthropy

Seven HBS alumni are among more than 50 philanthropic leaders who share their strategic thinking, insights, and wisdom in a unique set of video interviews being showcased on the new GiveSmart.org website.... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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In Memoriam: Hugo Uyterhoeven

for us to improve our campus and everything we do at HBS and around the world. He set the very highest standards for himself and for all the rest of us. Hugo was always a great inspiration, support, and... View Details

29 Jul 2021
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A Clean Start

photosynthesis, has figured out how to convert carbon dioxide and water into all types of things, from wood and fibers to fruits and grains,” he says. It’s a process that’s worked for 3.5 billion years. “We need to look at CO2 as a... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

house of some one thousand participants. After attributing the giant bookseller's success to its focus on the customer, Bezos set out to debunk seven "big myths of the... View Details

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)

most nimble of media. When I deliver my stories, my sounds, I’m an inch away from the listener’s ear. I deliver them to one person. It’s such a joy to be able to do a delicate little water drip [imitates three drips View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

our ultimate goal of bringing benefits to all our constituents through good management, high technology, and, of course, creativity," she concludes. "It's very important for us to View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

chancellor for business affairs, UNC Charlotte “My boss is excellent on many dimensions, but specifically when it comes to making a part-time/flexible schedule work, he gets it. Two things set him apart from most View Details

07 Aug 2012
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A Novel Approach

element of fun was a powerful incentive: Section J reached 100-percent participation faster than any section ever had. Apart from the funds raised, the effort was about framing future engagement. Says Lyle: "It's about View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

polyglot country. He raised $1 million, primarily from American investors he knew personally. In March 2011, he opened a small clinic (two chairs) in Delhi to serve as a pilot project. He set out to vertically integrate all aspects View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

planning and strategy at Ford’s Asia Pacific operations in Shanghai and a panelist at HBS’s “Moving the Future” transportation conference this past February. Just as significantly, charging infrastructure is set to get a boost. According... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

26 Oct 2018
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A Chance to Lead

have to live by, by setting priorities in your life, so that you make decisions based on information that you have available, and that you then can analyze things in much more detail and make the decisions that are best for you. “So some... View Details

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