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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
everywhere really began to Think, the first thing they would do would be to take a sledge and open up the computers.” (The Scarlet Ruse, 1973) Father and Son “A defining feature of my father’s nature was a...
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Nika Duan
they needed to leave all they'd ever known and come to the US for a better life with zero safety net. What’s the best thing about your home town? We had some of the best educators! Huge shout outs to Ms....
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
But for most of us, our relationship with alarm clocks is both intimate and codependent. It's the last thing we see when we go to sleep, and the first thing we see when we wake...
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Tommaso Ruggeri
memory? As a kid, I loved dinosaurs! I had a whole collection of dinosaur toys, and my favorite thing was go to my grandma's house and play with them for hours. I used to meticulously line them all up with...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
understand my accent, and I had to readjust to Nigerian culture — relearning Yoruba, making new friends, understanding how things were done.” In 1990, Gbadegesin, then seventeen, came back to the United States to study engineering at...
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- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
last eight years, Curriculum Associates had enrolled 8 million children. In just three and a half weeks during the spring of 2020, it added a million more. “The things that mattered most were not the View Details
- December 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Ocado
By: José Alvarez, David E. Bell and Damien McLoughlin
In 2015, U.K.-based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments in technology, including a highly automated...
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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar...
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Margie Kelley
- Portrait Project
Neda Navab
every penny during that first year to allow her to pursue her passion for cooking. Moved by the sacrifice that mirrored her own, Rose decided to put her individual self second for the most important thing of...
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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni
to make time for both. You Have More Choices than You Think Ambitious people tend to pursue demanding careers. As they advance, many professionals cannot help but wonder about the state of their personal lives. What do they owe, and want...
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- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
all these pieces of digital data as useful in helping them do a better job in two ways: One is doing what they do more efficiently, and two is maybe doing less, because they can outsource certain things to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says...
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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows 1. STATA Members of the Harvard Business School community can access the WRDS platform via Stata. Stata connects to WRDS through ODBC, a standard...
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- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature View Details
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
them, which ultimately meant that I was representing people like my mother who is a CalPERS beneficiary, required challenging those firms who managed their money to do the right thing on behalf of their...
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Drew Keller
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic system are being questioned....
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- 07 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Too Big?
potential friends, (nearly) perfected infrastructure and resources, clubs for anything you could be interested in, and a massive alumni base. I’ve experienced all of these things so far. It also gives you...
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