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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
assist with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s transition team at the Pentagon. After shoring up new leadership, he moved to the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and helped to create the Global Development Alliance, an agency...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes...
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- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
challenges can only go so far, Zaikos admits. So Intrinsic also encourages self agency by asking students to set their own schedules one day a week. “We know that, at two-year colleges, the students who tend to be more successful are the...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America
contributing to both quality treatment and prevention. Young people joining a health corps for a year could be patient advocates, provide community health education, collect data, or prepare for health-care careers while observing needs...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Avenue Manslaughter: An Inside View of Fee-Cutting Clients, Profit-Hungry Owners, and Declining Ad Agencies by Michael Farmer (MBA 1971) (Lid Publishing) Farmer, formerly a director of Bain & Company, describes the key trends that have...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset
nature preserve and perhaps the most pristine marine area in the world,” Cohen notes. But collecting that gem of the Pacific would be trumped by her lead role in a Florida swampland deal: the landmark agreement designed to restore the...
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- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the subsequent decades, the View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
The four professional leagues have varying systems involving collective bargaining agreements, free agency rules, and financial penalties that, to different degrees, set, or act as a "drag" on, upper-level...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake)...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
job which he thought he should do.” (US National Archives) Established by presidential order in June 1942, the OSS was charged with collecting and analyzing intelligence and running counterespionage missions, a predecessor to today’s CIA....
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
intersection of large historical forces and individual human agency that we have our best hope of reconstructing the past truthfully. Of those dozens of Times articles you selected, do you have any favorites? My favorites range from Times...
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- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
collector of traffic data—those tubes across the road that counted cars—but we have far surpassed that,” says Mistele. “Government is now mostly out of the business of collecting traffic data. The result, however, is much better data and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
SK: I think it’s going to be a blend. We started the Khan Lab School because we believe so much in in-person instruction, especially with the younger age groups. In terms of higher education, by the time kids are 18, 19, 20, they have the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),...
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