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- 24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
week when we announced the project to the public, after two years of pouring in sweat, blood, and tears. The public's reaction to Breakwater Chicago was overwhelmingly positive, and I spent the entire week running (literally!) from...
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Arts, Entertainment
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
consumerism isn't necessarily a win for the planet either, right? Shopping can be helpful in getting the economy back up and running but more products filling our homes is not going to be helpful long-term...
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- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
my own. I actually really enjoyed working for McKinsey because I didn't have to deal with the jammed printer or copy machine. But this was back in 1999. I was leading a pro-bono project for McKinsey working for the Nature Conservancy,...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
keep the working, moving forward. All the other board members are senior executives from other companies and they run the committees. Obviously, the chairman of the board has to have oversight, but it has to be, in my view, a completely...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of childhood poverty in America. Madrick examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government unmotivated to help its...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
he has perfected a technique for shaking off the lethargy of 22-hour flights to Boston — a six-mile run shortly after touching down at Logan Airport. He’ll be clocking a lot more after-flight miles over the next two years as he steps into...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change, about the choices they’ve made and the hopes they have for their growing businesses. Bharat Anand: First, can you give a brief description of your business? Snigdha Sur: The Juggernaut is a subscription media company and community,...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Case Study: Paper Chase
integrated, with cards made in a facility Lovepop owns in Vietnam, which allows for greater flexibility. The company is doubling its revenues quarter over quarter and reported a $1.4 million run rate in late 2015. After some small initial...
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- 07 Nov 2018
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The Results Are (Mostly) In
District. Taylor and Moulton were also two of 17 veterans who won Congressional seats with the backing of With Honor, a nonpartisan organization supporting veterans who run for public office. CEO Rye Barcott...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Film School
volunteer in Africa before attending HBS; thinking back to that time made him want to do "something useful and outrageous" once again. Particularly concerned about violence among young people, Seder decided that he wanted to "make a...
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- 25 Jul 2013
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An Engine of Education Innovation
years at HBS and a few years running a charter school fund he had founded in Newark, Leschly wanted to get back to managing—holding staff meetings, building a team, and doing applied work. So he returned to...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. As far back as 1914, IBM founder Thomas Watson made "respect for the individual" one of the three basic tenets of the company (the other two called for excellence in performance and...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
organization, both in terms of our global footprint-- now 50% of our work is outside the United States-- and in terms of our size. All was a clear-eyed focus on accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future. Morrell: And I want to go View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought...
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- 22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures & SME Committee (NVSC), which...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd like it to be us." Bright Idea #2...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
my own doubts.” But she comes back to a question pulled from the Mary Oliver poem, “The Summer Day”—famously posed to MBA graduates as part of Tony Deifell’s (MBA 2002) Portrait Project: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
He recalls when the specter of “Japan, Inc.,” was one of manufacturing’s looming concerns. “We’ve been through a cycle of lost competitiveness followed by renewal,” observes Jasinowski, who once worked on the Studebaker assembly line in South Bend, Indiana. “Now I...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
what exactly customers are asking for, and when. Slang.ai’s offerings are also customizable, with a portfolio of digital voices from which to choose and background sound elements that can be branded. “We’re focusing on not just the transaction but also on the audio...
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