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06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop

specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain

life-threatening experiences when they were blindsided by weather during their military service. Those shared experiences led them to found ClimaCell in 2015 to provide more accurate and reliable forecasts both to businesses and to... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

and new antibiotics—which are priced higher than their older counterparts to recoup development costs—have to compete for a share of that finite budget. In recent years, many large pharma companies have stopped their antibiotic research... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential

from the atmosphere of constant stress and menace inside prisons. As the two talked, they realized that, not only did they share the same vision, but their skill sets complemented each other perfectly for creating what would become the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

new and big comes about every day, and each teammate has played a role in each milestone we have reached. Of course, there are always bumps in the road, but it’s been very enjoyable to see how we have dealt with challenges as a team and View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, and public support. A... View Details

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

marketplace.” And IBM is attempting to leverage its expertise to get its share of that, he says. Doing so, analysts say, will be the foundation for IBM deep into the 21st century. “Transformation and transition is something IBM does very... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

sexual harassment and double standards, the gender gap continues to hinder the advancement of women in the professional world. In Digital Goddess, Victoria Montgomery-Brown shares her story in an entertaining and educational light. Told... View Details

20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019

newsletter Drinking from the Firehose MUST DOWNLOAD Ear Hustle “A remarkable, meaningful, and totally enjoyable and surprising show about the daily realities of life inside prison, shared by those living it, and stories from the outside,... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

16 May 2017
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Facing the Board

The risk would be giving up their competitive advantage, but Goedertier said, if BlackRock doesn’t do it, a software company would come up with a similar product, so they should capitalize on it now. On the issue of the 64 million share... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Books

Business School Press) Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know, by Nancy M. Dixon, gets to the heart of one of the most difficult questions in knowledge transfer today: What makes a system work effectively in one... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased and prepared,” says Kendall.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

Hicks. CP+B is known for work that challenges the definition of traditional advertising (such as its 2004 Subservient Chicken Web site, created for Burger King). The agency has also garnered its share of attention through numerous... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

personally, too. As he began to dig into the research, the conclusions were unambiguous: “I needed to retire and dedicate myself to sharing knowledge,” recalls Brooks, who left AEI in 2019. Courtesy Arthur Brooks At HBS, he teaches the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

particular field to work on projects across the School rather than be aligned with a specific academic unit at HBS, explains Drew Keller (MBA 2022), director of BiGS, who notes that next year’s cohort will focus on climate change and sustainability. “We hope that the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested

Fairness) and Reese’s Book Club. “It’s been a time for deeply human leadership,” says Harden of working remotely during the pandemic. “I’ve shared the struggles of having a full-time job, three children, and a husband who has also been... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; women in business; COVID-19; film; media; television; Arts, Entertainment

16 Jan 2020
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Hitting the High Notes

needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot of storytelling in my talks, View Details