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- 01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at Lehman Brothers in London learning...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
haven’t squeezed out cost yet,” agrees Celia Wcislo, a 1987 graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program and the assistant division director of the 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East, a local...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum of Natural History, Chicago Strategy for the Field: "More. Faster. Better." Operating expenses FY '99: $60 million Square feet he oversees: Close to a million 33 Web site: www.fieldmuseum.org Best part of his job: "Knowing that we...
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- 04 Mar 2008
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HBS Blogs
Fitness, Baby Boomers, Business, and Living”; archived since July 2006) MBA 1980I Jim McGee, McGee’s Musings, http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/ (book reviews and comments on design, technology, learning, organization, resources, and more; archived since Jan. 2003) MBA...
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- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
dissatisfied customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
economic. - Michael Porter "Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the social problems, but the more fundamental issues are often economic," notes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, a world-renowned strategy and...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
common ground on an issue, and he’s good at understanding what people want out of a transaction,” observes DeWitt. “He has a strong internal compass and a real sense of fairness.” In terms of his managerial style, “He’s not the bombastic,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
available until late 2006, and Herp figured the small turboprop would be a good means of testing his idea in the marketplace. Linear Air began by offering point-to-point service to over 500 cities in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, eastern Canada, and the Caribbean....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
could communicate to your fans, "This is what we've done. This is what it'll look like. This is the expectation to come back, and what we'll do to protect you." So I think it's a whole host of things in terms of your internal staffing,...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
across ABP Media's channels, Karan Kapur (MBA 2015) provided hundreds and thousands of meals through his international FnB venture K Corp, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) enabled the mission to be displayed in millions of smartphones through...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA '89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry leader in a new business spawned by the Internet -- ad serving. The...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
He’d had a passion for art since his youth, and it continued during the 30-plus years he worked for Holcim, an international cement firm. He began to decorate the firm’s bare cement walls with art and held little art exhibitions at the...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
unity all that created and how it allowed us to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems." Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa (MBA '69) - who was known as Arthur S. Warshaw while at HBS and is now an American Sikh-has helped weave spirituality into the very fiber of Khalsa...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso