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Joshua Wyatt
One day, I will welcome people as they check-in to my hotels. OK, my hotel empire is but a single apartment now, but one day I will be able to take care of people; people who come from all over the world with many different views, hopes, dreams and desires. It is this...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured by the German army and brought...
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Leading with the Long View
had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon...
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- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
good return on their product, more than enough to offset the increased cost of additional labor, says Wiviott. “You do the conversions for a couple of years,” he says, “and then after that you have a very stable cash flow from these...
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Ernest T. Weir
Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner, implementing whatever profit-generating methods he deemed appropriate. These measures, View Details
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Fran Davis
Harvard College and through the Extension School. In addition to her work at Harvard, Dr. Davis maintains a private practice for career consulting and individual, couples and family psychotherapy in the Boston suburbs.
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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
other, are open-source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
to HBS with her partner Bethany. Enjoying the business school bubble together can also be a bonding experience for couples at HBS and may bring couples closer together. “This is a once in a lifetime...
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- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
topic for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-016.pdf Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples Authors:Claus-Jochen Haake, Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract We consider...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Mar 2012
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A Jobs Compact for America's Future
What's good for individual U.S. companies is no longer automatically good for business nationwide, for U.S. workers, or for the economy. That, coupled with the failure of business, government, and other institutions to engage in...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Liquid and Efficient
remains the world’s most liquid and most efficient marketplace. That may involve a greater degree of electronic trading, but that remains to be seen. I have a very open mind about this — we’ll see over the next couple of months what is...
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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
Podcast with: Tarun Khanna Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 14 min., 33 sec. The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). On the strength of...
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Alfredo Arreba
But I also need risk and adventure to be happy. Most couples go to Hawaii or Venice for their honeymoon – I am going to Burma despite the travel warnings. The thrill of the adventure is the strongest feeling I have ever had. Similarly,...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Joe Badaracco
A graduate of St. Louis University and a Rhodes Scholar, Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., had never considered attending HBS. Then he spent a couple of years in the business world, at Price Waterhouse. “I became much more interested in business,...
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Natalie C. Eckford
abandon and that nothing can replace true friendship. Driving through the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta one day, my father stopped and had me pick a couple of pieces of cotton. As I looked down at my dirty fingers, he told me never...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
more likely to have an entrepreneur in the family. There are a couple of reasons why that might be, but most of the evidence seems to point to the fact that it’s not about people having the funds to start a business, it’s about the risk...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Noted & Quoted
consulting company, writing about Google’s new Chrome operating system (Huffington Post, July 13, 2009). “Echo boomers are larger than the baby boomer population. Couple that with immigration and you have the seeds, the possibility of a...
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- 28 Feb 2022
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Equal Partner
Courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new job, she was intrigued by the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
business, including the most skilled and conscientious practitioners and organizations. Could regulation disqualify some people from having children? If couples can be judged by the state as unfit to be adoptive parents, shouldn’t they...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
showing that vibration at a precise frequency stimulates bone growth and improves bone density, OsteoBoost will be coupled with an app to track daily use and encourage good nutritional habits. The Why: One in four American men and half of...
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