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- 06 Dec 2018
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Cold Call Horror Stories
pretty funny. It was pretty funny. Katherine Randolph, 1993, Section H. My cold call story was being cold called by Michael Porter, the day that we did the Five Forces. Now as backstory, I got into Harvard Business School as the total...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
but you have to know enough to know how the strategy has to work. HR is also important to the upper levels to make sure the talent is there and the right kind of talent for the organizations. Best of all in all my boards, it was mostly...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
a suitcase, and headed back to work. A pro bono study by several of the city's top consulting firms has estimated that the damage to New York City totals $83 billion. That figure may be low, some observers say, and of course it cannot...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
graduates have shown increasing interest in carving out careers in these areas, while other alumni often look to make contributions following rewarding private-sector careers. Innovative Leadership One such individual is Donald P. Nielsen...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
Aksel Lund Svindal in the movie Streif—One Hell of a Ride. But no mention is ever made of the beverage’s restorative properties. Does Svindal drink Red Bull? We don’t know, and it doesn’t matter—he is too busy flying by at 80 mph, being View Details
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over
economic reforms. Guided by Cohen, the firm has emerged over the past three decades as one of the world’s dominant private-equity investment groups, raising or advising funds totaling more than $20 billion. At the peak of his game, Cohen...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that happiness was the common View Details
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- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the payoffs are, and then the probability of each of the payoffs. But in this case, you talked about the information asymmetry, and it's very clear in the social media context, the fear of missing out totally miscalculates what the...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
project received funding totaling over $1.2 million and were able to re-hire all 900 of their employees. JUNE 1 Arnel F. Almira, who is currently enrolled in OPM 54, is CEO of Alfa All Food Asia, a B2B distributor of imported fresh frozen...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
Runway, Good Start Genetics, EGG-energy, Urban Water Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others — the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
right here, was totally encrypted, it’d be great. A lot of it is, but not all of it. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about You could just leave the doors unlocked, if we had fully encrypted data. But we don’t. And it will be a very long...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
section focusing on the startup phase (taught by Professor Patrick Liles) and the other on operational problems and strategies (taught by Professor Dick Dooley). Dooley went on to pioneer the Smaller Company Management Program (now the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
it better than the other side did. When I asked Karl Rove in late 2003 about his strategy for the coming election, he pulled from his briefcase a laminated card that he said reflected the central dynamic at work in the electorate. It...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
products, and even day–to–day operations. Just when you think you understand the technology landscape, you see a major disruption.” For business leaders who are willing to take an imaginative leap of their own, Artful Making provides a new model to inspire innovation...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
that is relevant in Shanghai, Panama, South Africa, Europe, or wherever. The United States is one big market. Contrast that with Europe, where we have a central office, but where there are lots of different markets that require different View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
directly after graduating from Smith College. "By nature, I'm a pretty self-confident person," says Benton, "but I remember feeling totally intimidated at Harvard. Coming straight from an all-women's prep school and college, I was...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The spread of MERS had been limited since its emergence in Saudi Arabia in 2012, with only about 2,500 total cases globally, but one in three infections...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and...
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