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- 02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled
friends. And he was at the first meeting and so forth. But my mother and I had a really good time and we took her all over the place, took her to our houses in Nantucket and in Florida. And, and she had a couple great grandchildren, which...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Cold Call Horror Stories
anything.” And the next day, I showed up in class and Joe walked in two minutes late and he looked up and he cold called me. And I just put my hands up in the air and I said, “I pass,” and the class booed. There was a lot of hissing and it turned out, he came up to me...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
couple of experiments should not be that much of a bandwidth killer. —Jacob Navon (MBA 1984) It’s critical to choose one and “own” it. Which one to choose is largely a function of the exit strategy. Owning one specific market will...
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Dan Morrell
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars of capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United States,” he says. “That’s where I...
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Jill Radsken
- 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success
They didn’t know anyone there and did little research before the move. But stories of the city’s recovery—and the HBO series Tremé, which captured its rollicking lifestyle—fired their imagination. With two small children in tow, the View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
succeeded in making us all ethical, compassionate capitalists. Certainly there are some spectacular successes among us, outstanding leaders and innovators who've gained wide notice. It's also true that we've had a couple of classmates...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Mar 2016
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Case Study: Paper Chase
You may want to position outside of the greeting card market and more in the corporate giving space. There are a couple of designs that I would buy in bulk to ship to our key customers. So perhaps you could market personalized or custom...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
action legislation helped to level the playing field in the same way as the GI Bill? The top CEOs in business are usually between 45 and 65 years old, so it takes a couple of generations to see the impact of legislative acts aimed at...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Sometimes I go to her and I’m super passionate about something, and she just doesn’t see it. And vice-versa. Those situations can go a couple of ways. Sometimes, I’m going to push through because I think it’s important. We’ve both done...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
graduates emerge ill-educated, Bistany counters); Investing money in education and schools raises quality (when what's important is how many books a student reads, not how big the library is); and Learning by memorizing is bad (rote learning is bad, but memorization...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
first board experience. Were you the only woman on the board? Tosh Barron: Yes. On the first couple of boards, I was. And then once you’re on a board and you bring new people in, you try and get some other worthy people to come on that...
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- 30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck
and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
development, we strongly believe that the delivery of water and sanitation services to the city of Manila significantly affects the quality of life of the public, especially those in marginalized communities. This opportunity to have a developmental impact in the...
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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
Committee. “You are only a student at HBS for a couple of years, but you are an alum for the rest of your life,” Brooks says. “Our class was very special; we were there together when 9/11 happened and we have connected and reconnected...
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Jennifer Myers
- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
foundation for entrepreneurial pursuits, in 1998 they launched GoLite, a company that manufactured and sold lightweight, high-performance outdoor clothing and gear. Kim took the reins as CEO in 2000, and the company quickly became a well-respected niche brand. Still,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit
Gita—not only impacts their daily reality but may represent a "bottom-of-the-pyramid," high-potential market for business as well. Above all, the key is the delivery of solutions. As Chu says, "A product must be coupled with delivery to...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
government-funded pensions and health insurance). And Detroit’s troubles magnify — and perhaps exacerbate — the fact that across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
crisis. So I was exhausted. And, I felt like I'd let everybody down. And just the endless criticism. You know, there are a couple reasons why I fired people when I fired them. And one is when they lost their confidence, right? When they...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
a couple of young MBAs. But fate works in funny ways. For one, it brought Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) together in Section I. The two became friends and started dating near the end of their first year at HBS, but...
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