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- 01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers
the country club's rules by going to lunch there with a white colleague. "You could have cut the tension with a knife," recalls Rogers, who was met by his boss when he returned from lunch and told that next time, unfortunately, the club would not seat him in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
entrepreneurs whose main resource when they start an enterprise is their passion. Loving what you do doesn’t guarantee success, but I believe it is the essence of creativity and of entrepreneurship. — Deborah Blagg
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS exposed me for the first time to a truly interactive and...
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- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
eureka moment: when we realized that the lack of digital identification has blocked innovation in the military community," Hall said. "Having to rely on face-to-face verification undermined the main benefits of online transactions: speed...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA
thing in common: Harvard MBAs. Visitors to Crawford, Texas, get presidential treatment. A billboard with the town’s most famous part-time resident, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), gives the “thumbs-up” while First Lady Laura Bush beams at his side. Souvenir shops...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Bhide's Entrepreneurial Management course gives his students a feel for the skills they will need as entrepreneurs. The course, first offered in 1983 and currently taught by Bhide and Assistant Professor Myra Maloney Hart, focuses on three View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
Communities, became our main vehicle to address poor families’ need for a clean and affordable water supply as well as proper sanitation. Since its launch in 1998, the TPSB program has benefited more than 1.7 million people, accounting...
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- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
favorite--and significantly less fatigue-inducing—spots was the main common area of the i-Lab, hanging out with Cyrus Stoller, Tim Massey, or any of the other incredibly talented entrepreneurial folks that would pass through.” What advice...
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- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
(admittedly a bit of a novelty, given my Midwest upbringing). Also, I enjoyed the chance to do a lot of traveling.” Wiegele: “Often playing on the same intramural team as Sierra! Also travelling. My partner and I also did a lot of exploring in and around Boston,...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
employees. During the Great Depression, Levi Strauss workers were kept on the payroll refurbishing their factory until business picked up. In 1982, when current CEO Bob Haas learned that employees were nervous about distributing AIDS information on company property, he...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
the main reasons for our enthusiasm about backing the business at this early stage. They have absolutely the right DNA to tackle some of the most difficult and intractable computer science problems around automatically understanding the...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
forcing mechanism for us,” Gulati says. “Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out at the first hurdle.” “For us, the main goal wasn’t to make it to the finals or win, it was to get good feedback that...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
barriers to both production and consumption). Inevitably, demand is also being compromised along more traditional Keynesian lines, as people grow anxious about their income going forward. But at this moment, and certainly up until now, my guess is that the tangible...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
market. Toiletries were also the main category sold by Western companies in developing countries .As these companies took their brands into foreign markets, they diffused consumption habits. As incomes rose and distribution channels...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
approaches to solve technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation counters the dominant paradigm, which casts firms’ profit-seeking incentives as the main driver of technical change. This volume provides a...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
through the pride and determination of a handful of workers and an unexpected champion has been referred to in the French media as a conte de fée, a fairy tale. It’s a description Viana loves as much as the next person, even if the transformation didn’t happen with the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
says. “Now manufacturing is back. We can compete with the best in the world because we tightened our belts during a difficult time.” “The economy has truly opened up,” Mittal remarks. “The main challenge of operating in India today is to...
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Julia Hanna