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- 01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key
returns standpoint?” The P&G experience in expanding consumer research in developing countries is especially fascinating for global brand managers. — Sean Silverthorne View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Understanding the Digital Frontier
Blendtec hit on the idea of showing the industrial-strength power of the product by filming the blender munching everything from rake handles to an iPhone. The videos racked up 60 million hits on YouTube, and the company’s CEO was soon making an appearance on The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
individuals so that the war’s consequences are felt directly by citizens. The White House has come down hard on the numbers and message of The Three Trillion Dollar War, but by offering a detailed, devastating accounting of the human, financial, political, and social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
cross-gender touching before beginning an exam. White’s story — part autobiography, part call to action — is a compelling and often uncomfortable read about a hidden world where even the most compassionate and egalitarian caregivers often fail a basic command of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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A United Front
experience," says Elberse, for whom the Ferguson case represents a growing body of work on creative industries that include book and magazine publishing, film, music, television, video games, the performing arts, sports, and advertising. "You could tell he has a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
the past) a catalyst for protecting and expanding the rights, opportunities, and quality of life of all citizens. We’ve just seen what too little government regulation can lead to; maybe we need to give bigger government a bigger chance to succeed. — View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Building Your Own Dream Team
the help and advice of others to help you become who you can be,” Ferrazzi writes. “This kind of peer-to-peer support and feedback is the often unacknowledged key behind the achievements of so many of the high-performance people I come in contact with every day.” After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Inside MTV’s Global Fame
practice. But what made business rock for Roedy, now semiretired and involved in AIDS/HIV issues, was MTV’s power to energize its young, global audience to agitate for social change in areas including global warming, human trafficking, and drug abuse. “We had built the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap
questions are finally focusing on the health-care needs of the poor. Some teams, for example, are working on genetic modifications that would render the mosquito unable to transfer malaria. Those developments make Daar and Singer optimistic. “We contend that if we can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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A Call to Innovation
authority on the issue. He developed and taught a course on innovation at HBS and served as a visiting professor at both the MIT Media Lab and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. — Sean Silverthorne View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Inspiration Is Not Enough
familiar to HBS alumni. But the author makes them fresh by applying his nearly 30 years of VC experience at Warburg Pincus to digest the crucial ingredients required to build a long-running, society-shaping enterprise. His underlying message: Great entrepreneurs start... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Leaning In to Gender Equity
criterion that matters when picking a company for career advancement is fast growth. Lean In landed on bookshelves just as HBS was commemorating the admission of women to the two-year MBA Program 50 years ago and on the golden anniversary of Betty Friedan's The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
In Israel, getting into business is not so much a matter of what university you went to but rather what military unit you served in. And that may be the single thing you need to understand about what makes Israel a leading center of entrepreneurialism and tech... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
Guy Spier (MBA 1993) didn’t wait long after graduation to make the biggest mistake of his career. Accepting a vice president’s role at D.H. Blair Investment Banking, the admitted Gordon Gekko wannabe had a front-row seat as several top execs at the firm were charged... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Father of Modern Advertising
Don Draper and the rest of the Mad Men crew can thank Albert D. Lasker for their fame. A new biography convincingly nominates Lasker as the “father of modern advertising,” noted for creating brilliant ad campaigns selling everything from Kotex — an unknown product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
may discourage retailers from using the new technology.” It is folly for the United States to hunker down in an international technology race, he concludes. “Today’s conditions allow nations to gain from each other’s advances, and our challenge lies in making the best... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra
the game in ways that diminish the customer experience.” Change the rules of capitalism? Something to mull over as you tune in your favorite football team this fall. — Sean Silverthorne View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Ink
Book Review: The Future of Learning To educate America’s youth, we treat them like products in a factory, according to the education experts who wrote Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. We march students through standardized courses and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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A Remarkable Life Story
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69) credits much of her business confidence and acumen to her years at Harvard Business School, where she was the first black woman to receive an MBA. But those two years, exhilarating and educational as they may have been, were not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political elite and Western-inspired... View Details