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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
with a $5 million loan. The plant was located in a run-down area of Bridgeport, the state’s murder capital. We’d often find bullets, needles, and used condoms in the parking lot. But my workforce was steady and very loyal because there...
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Olympic Park Legacy Company. Her education and experience complemented Blumkin's, as did her roots across the river in Mamaroneck, in New York's Westchester County. Blumkin immediately signed Lehrer as manager of communications and...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
in boxer shorts is just plain fun. It’s part of who Tim Draper is, the same part that sees opportunities others might miss and finds nothing unusual or scary about taking on established norms. For the moment, however, Draper is tethered to a conference room chair in...
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Julia Hanna
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
to sell insurance in the country. During the next five years China's non-life insurance industry grew from $8.3 billion in 2001 to $15.9 billion in 2005. Yet in 2007, domestic insurers continued to dominate market share and, Chubb had not...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
broken the system was, I know a particular automotive company that wanted to recruit more women and would drive trucks to campus, park the trucks on a big rock to get the suspension flexing a little bit, and then have women on computers...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
for information, the second plane hit the south tower and exploded. Debris rained down, and Lhota sought cover by jumping into a nearby parked car. Seconds later, a huge chunk of falling metal - part of the Trade Center's facade - crashed...
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- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
allocate a planned $100 million to make a meaningful difference in cancer patients’ lives. Park has spent the past few months working on this project and has uncovered a multitude of options, from supporting high-performing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
stake race about three weeks ago at Gulfstream Park that was a final prep for the Kentucky Oaks. And she really blew them away, and ran so well that people are talking about Coach Rocks as being in a position where she is a legitimate...
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horse racing
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
aimed at promoting spatially defined agribusiness/agro-industrial investments and strengthening agribusiness and agro-industrial competitiveness. It analyzes five agroterritorial planning and policy instruments—economic corridors, clusters, special economic zones,...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we opted for a strategic partnership with an established U.S. View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
weekend series.” OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW: As demolition of the old Busch Stadium took place in November 2005, seats were park next door. The Cardinals played the season home opener in the new Busch Stadium on April 10, 2006, as...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Harvard Business School, "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century." The Summit included many industries and sectors that do not often appear together, and discussions emphasized the perspective of...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
housing at Radcliffe College. LAMBERT: I took the train from DC to Boston and a cab to the dorm at Radcliffe. The lady who met me at the door made me feel like I didn’t belong there. She told me my room wasn’t ready, so I walked to a park...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
to get a handle on why getting financing through software-industry guru Ben Rosen (Lotus) led to a different and more effective execution than getting end-of-tax-year money from Chicago-based commodity brokers (Ovation). He also wrote notes providing deep View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
they're looking out the window at the Great America Amusement Park, which you can see from their cubicles on the fifth floor of the Robert Noyce Building in Santa Clara. And Andy looks at Gordon and says, "If the board should kick us...
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- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-053 Ethiopia's Industrial Parks Strategy No abstract available. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
later an escape for actor Marlon Brando, the islands are now home to a Pacific Beachcomber resort. Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and Neil Calvanese (Columbia Univ....
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