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- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Jersey, where the school system was on the verge of collapse. In 1993, the company put PCs, complete with e-mail and Internet access, on the desks of all 135 seventh-grade students in the Christopher Columbus Middle School - as well as in...
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- 01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles,...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the coming year: encourage clubs to designate an information technology officer to run Internet sessions and develop Web resources; create a system for connecting current students to clubs and communicating more efficiently when...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Shape of Things to Come
business have become more widely distributed in the world, our students have more interest in finding out, for example, what the internet business looks like in China. And it’s important to remember that the case discussion is not the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the subculture of competitive gaming and its economic potential came fully into view—first in South Korea. The country’s well-developed internet infrastructure had birthed a vibrant gaming community, and with support from the government...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Ramnath’s ICICI Venture Funds) was an investment in Baazee, the Internet auction site founded by Avnish Bajaj and Suvir Sujan (both MBA ’98) that was sold to eBay in 2004 for $50 million. Recently, Sujan launched a venture- capital fund...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
less, attractive. Hardware and software are complements. So are hot dogs and mustard, cars and car loans, cable television and TV Guide, the Internet and high-capacity digital phone lines, catalogues and overnight delivery services - even...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
an effort to connect with a broader audience of alumni, conference plenary sessions were livecast on the Internet and have been archived on the HBS Web site. Those who missed the conference can directly access the sessions on the Web at...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
when you look at the B2B applications, Menard explains. He points to a number of tech disruptions that are happening in parallel, including low earth orbit satellites, cloud storage, edge computing, Internet of Things networks,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
earned. And never ignore the magic of compound interest." Each day, a Tobias commentary can be found on the Internet at www.ameritrade.com. And this fall, he can be seen on public television, cohosting an eight-part series, "Beyond Wall...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
come to us through our Web site,” he says. “In the way that paperbacks turned out to be an extension of the market for hardcover books, I think the Internet is an extension of the print audience rather than a replacement.” As for his own...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson
in 1989 but never had any interest in doing it. The boats are too big; the sails are too big; the race is too hard, too long, too risky, too dangerous, too everything. But then Internet technology inched its way into schools, and we...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
exploratory campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. Forty-eight states, half a million miles, and a year later, Quayle dropped out, and Flannery moved on — with no regrets. “It was a fantastic experience,” he says. After a brief stint with an...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
such as working with a team and making key decisions based on limited information. For French, now president of Westport, ConnecticutÐ based On-Link Corporation, a maker of electronic catalogs for online and Internet services, the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
yield; internet sales (limited to France and Belgium) and distribution to regional gourmet stores and supermarkets account for the rest. Capacity—and distribution—are the next challenges for Jeannette. “Today the factory is working well,...
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- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
included everything from X-rays to endoscopy, and a pharmacy where a person could fill a prescription before heading home—with a printed copy of their electronic medical record in hand. Back in the early internet days of 2000, these...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
participants with a glimpse into the future of cyberspace. Next year, Kapoor may find himself an invited guest at that event, since he'll be working on content development at the @Home Network, a high-profile Silicon Valley startup providing high-speed View Details