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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty...
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- 20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael Porter and his theories of...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
for reliable, affordable water service. Nearly two of every three gallons of water pumped through the dilapidated distribution system were lost or stolen. Desperate for a remedy, the Philippine government invited the private sector to take over, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
equipment. By 1979, that figure had increased by two orders of magnitude to $217.4 million. Fabrication facilities [“fabs”] were expensive. During the 1970s, the semiconductor industry became capital...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
early-stage venture capital firm Glasswing Ventures, Seseri is more focused on today’s “narrow” artificial intelligence: technology capable of mimicking human thought processes and learning when applied to a specific task. “If you go...
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April White
- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial and family-held businesses. For his part, Liles became an expert on venture capital and the entrepreneur. In the 1970s and 1980s, as HBS intensified its research and curriculum development in the area of entrepreneurship,...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA '86) worked in venture View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with a Race to the Top competition that promised more than $4 billion in stimulus money for states that—among other reforms—heeded the call to establish what the President referred to as "laboratories of...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Ink
toolkits and you will find instruments for brain scanning and eye tracking, as well as experiments to test psychological and physiological responses. Beware, future MBAs: Can a cold call of a student’s galvanic skin response be far away?...
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- 07 Nov 2014
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The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
and UStream, to drive initiatives in support of women. As shown in Forbes, for example, MOGUL produces an original series called “How She Did It,” which features women around the world speaking on their various journeys and how they rose...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who foretold the timing as auspicious....
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving...
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- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
necessary to save his brother’s life, but intent on laying some sort of foundation for success. The first step was an undergrad degree at Cornell, close to his family’s upstate New York home, and then on to HBS. While here, Horgan started two organizations—a biotech...
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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
know, businesses. And therefore, after HBS, after tinkering around with, you know, a few startups, [00:01:00] myself—all of them of course failed miserably—going back to India seemed like a calling of sorts. It was not easy for sure, I...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
Thus continued the protracted struggle with his chief, who dreaded losing his unmatched talents. To understand how strongly Hamilton felt about this is to grasp the essence of his character. He had a passionate drive to achieve what in his time was View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
affiliate, the Civic Capital Corporation, founded and became the overseer of an operation called ReSTART Central. ReSTART assigns business-savvy volunteers to work with donors and to act as troubleshooting...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man between corporate America and the U.S. government. President...
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- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful...
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