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- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
need help. The students also teach each other. So every student is working at their own pace, and time is freed up in class to work on more open-ended projects. We think that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to...
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- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
“The goal is to have impact,” Joyner says of the collection, which ranges from abstract and figurative paintings to 3-D sculpture made from 1945 to the present. “We own some things we think are important; we spent 20 years refining our...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
more to share, more to inspire. At 37, she was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, dying at 42. But her insights, lessons, and thoughts on humanity during those five years are nothing short of gifts to the rest of us.” —James...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
working steadily for years to understand new technology in a managerial context and using it where it makes sense to link it to our pedagogy. Along the way, we've made the best of new technology as it became available - from mainframes,...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader
communities where they serve. It sounds old-fashioned, and yet it’s almost revolutionary. What set the stage for recent business scandals? Greed took over. It started with the junk bonds and the corporate raiders of the late 1980s. This put a lot of pressure on...
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- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today's episode of Skydeck features alumni weighing in on where and when they do their best thinking. The podcast team collected these thoughts during Spring Reunions this View Details
- 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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- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted...
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
editor and columnist Chris Kelly. “We often joke that if there’s ever a nuclear war, you want to be in Scranton because it takes 25 years for anything to get here. It’s still very much the old pay-to-play political model.” One example is...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business Summit in mid-October was a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Whale Wars
and I had thrived on freedom. However, after 18 years on the corporate ladder in London, I could hardly even imagine that way of being anymore. I knew I needed a break, so I put my life on hold for three months and took on what was to me...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete
splints, a condition that affects up to 20 percent of runners and military personnel. Most are encouraged to return to full participation in 4 to 14 weeks, but a study published earlier this year found the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio
(MBA 1993), using a nickname for Buenos Aires residents. The mayor himself grew up in the city without ever visiting the community—one of a half-dozen “misery towns” across the city. “It’s a few feet away, but physically and socially,...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor
Luiza Helena initiated a reorganization that replaced family members with professional management and launched a campaign to reinforce the company’s mission to serve customers and employees. Despite the volatile nature of the Brazilian economy, Magazine Luiza posted a...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch
John A. Quelch, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for International Development, became the leader of the School's Global Initiative last August. A veteran HBS faculty member who recently spent three View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,”...
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