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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins and Gulati discovered, the top executives' connections...
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by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
concepts, and analyzed a year’s worth of Zendesk customer service ticket data to determine the ebb and flow of the needs of their customers: the teachers and administrators teaching our youth. Towards the end of the summer, I presented my proposed solutions to the...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
weren’t exactly receptive to the guy from corporate. During job interviews, the organizations told Dyson he was going through a midlife crisis. Also, his corporate background was a negative in the nonprofit world, and he hadn’t paid his...
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Paul Flannery
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
defense sector in the mid-2010s. Ryan had been persuaded to join the endeavor after hearing the enthusiasm of the scores of potential users Brandon interviewed prior to launch. But the pair did not initially encounter the same positive View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system—often because they saw an...
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- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. At the Class of 2020 welcoming reception last year, Dean Nohria told us that HBS will transform us in three dimensions – academics,...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
strategies of running an alumni club. The conference kicked off with a reception and dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston, allowing alumni to socialize and network with each other as well as with directors from the HBS Initiatives and...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, and moderated by HBS Professor Henry McGee, former President of HBO Home Entertainment. Held at the brand-new, nearly half-million-square-foot Telemundo Center, the new Miami headquarters of Comcast-NBCUniversal, the event...
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
informed about the programs and services that await them as active members of the alumni community. Under the auspices of this committee, several board members attended a reception hosted by the Alumni Association during graduation week,...
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- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
system had been brought to the table. That's all changing now, and the major players seem increasingly receptive to rethinking the system. He points to the Medicare Drug Prescription Plan, launched in 2006, as an example. Twenty years...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
The same group of people who had been working for an under-performing company can produce outstanding results if they have the right leader. Japan may be the first country in the world where companies can choose from two different governance systems. Q: Are Japanese...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
there is a bustle of activity as the premises are readied to receive the three hundred guests who will arrive for an evening reception and book-signing party to celebrate the publication of a handsome new volume, Adventures with Old...
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Deborah Blagg
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
foreseeing obstacles to building a startup in the defense sector in the mid-2010s. Ryan had been persuaded to join the endeavor after hearing the enthusiasm of the scores of potential users Brandon interviewed prior to launch. But the pair did not initially encounter...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employers. While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system - often because...
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- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
just the saints. —Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. "Robert Coles came; the reception was very positive," Badaracco said. "But as kind of a wandering prophet, he moved on." Yet there was still a strong demand for the course at...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Fletcher Previn gave his vision of the future workplace that will rely on the agility of technology. The weekend wrapped up with a networking reception and ample time to ski.
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
and award-winning author of three books on the food-service industry, was the conference's primary organizer. "I think everyone left with more energy than they had when they walked in," she said. "When you're dealing with a bunch of extremely busy women, that's a sign...
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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
observations that help define the future of digital communications. First, they point out that the medium is unique in that the cost of producing and disseminating information is low, while the cost of reception (an Internet-linked...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
don't know how to say my name, or if you don't feel like saying my name? It's one of the basics. What has the reception been to the book? The first week, I was absolutely overwhelmed. All of my friends and family ordered it immediately...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
I've ever done." A series of afternoon panels were organized around "hot topics," such as cultivating a mentor and building a career, strategies for personal and professional success, women as negotiators, and the power of women in the marketplace. The event ended with...
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Mary Ellen Gardner