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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of Managerial View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
degrees in mechanical engineering and economics at Yale and then worked in tech investments at Morgan Stanley and as a project manager at Microsoft. But what Hopkins hoped to learn from the course taught by Shane Greenstein, the Martin...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
pandemic, we have seen firsthand the divide in our nation. The majority of citizens have been able to work from home and prosper. At the same time, millions of individuals (especially those in our industry) have been harder hit by this pandemic and extremely challenged...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
Our class has lived and worked in a prolonged period of unprecedented economic growth, resulting in great wealth for our nation and opportunities for individual prosperity. Our gift affords us a modest, yet critical role in providing...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
worker productivity, equality of opportunity and economic mobility, even economic growth—are consequently all eroding and threatening the economic, civil, and political life of our democracy. Of course, Adam...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
halt. In the summer of 1994 alone, more than 30,000 Cubans fled to the United States via boats and makeshift rafts. Faced with these economic realities, Fidel Castro’s government began some private sector experimentation, including...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more important. And it would be a...
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Roger Thompson
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
children’s mental health ser-vices. In 2004, Youth Villages sought Bridgespan’s help in developing a strategic growth plan that charted expansion into six states, called for building a business development unit, and introduced new...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there. And instead of looking for blame...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
of being a successful entrepreneur. There are huge, huge market areas right now that are suffering from great dislocation and transition, and for which technology innovation has an opportunity to create tremendous value. Health care, the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
the bailout could very well calm the current crisis but also provoke even greater, and even more dangerous, risk-taking in the future.” Innovation Will Continue University Professor Robert Merton, who received the Nobel Prize in economics...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
part, to the sector’s famous reliance on personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
from opioids), Shumway also cites domestic abuse and criminal records that prevent reintegration into society as primary factors that contribute to homelessness. “A disproportionate number of the homeless are also veterans with mental View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and Japan's economic renaissance,"...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry