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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
Lorraine, the smitten high schooler who wants to be his girlfriend, even though history requires that she become his mother.) Ultimately Marty’s most urgent race is against time: He must get to the town square before the village clock...
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- 19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
note. Nohria explained his belief that people’s life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing View Details
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change, about the choices they’ve made and the hopes they have for their growing businesses. Bharat Anand: First, can you give a brief description of your business? Snigdha Sur: The Juggernaut is a subscription media View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
team-based projects in the areas of Business History (The Dynamics of Capitalist Revolutions); Leadership, Values, and Decision Making (LVDM); Quantitative Methods (Lectures and Problems); Applied Personal Skills; Career Development; and...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
used to reside only with the retailers. There was an information asymmetry that created a power dynamic in retail, but that is gone. Consumers have stormed the castle, and the hard work for many companies is going to be shifting from the...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
executive education that led to the development of a number of successful programs, including the Smaller Company Management Program (now the Owner/ President Management Program) and joint programs with Harvard's Schools of Education,...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
two-person long-distance ocean sailing. A former Pentagon analyst, energy consultant, and high-school teacher with a master’s degree in interdisciplinary science from MIT, he has turned this and other extended ocean voyages into classroom curricula through his...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company. Right from the start, Hattangady’s...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered
Dean Kim B. Clark called him "a pioneer in turning the classroom into a transformational experience and in preparing leaders for both business and society. An extraordinary teacher and human being," Clark continued, "he made an indelible mark on the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) University of Toronto Press Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity, as she traces...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
would have allowed a United Arab Emirates–based company to operate key U.S. seaports. “I support the President when I think what he is doing is right for our district,” Edwards says. In a sure sign of Edwards’s broad appeal, two...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
long history in the European market, gaining iconic status in England in the 1970s and '80s. But now, on the verge of bankruptcy, the company was having a hard time making payroll. Seeing an opportunity,...
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- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
necessary to save his brother’s life, but intent on laying some sort of foundation for success. The first step was an undergrad degree at Cornell, close to his family’s upstate New York home, and then on to HBS. While here, Horgan started two organizations—a biotech...
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