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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
says about him and our present-day consumer society, to a story about the rise of the Negro middle class in the South in the 1960s, to a fascinating obituary of Jay Gould, the nineteenth-century speculator,...
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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812033-PDF-ENG Chris and Alison Weston (A) Sandra J. Sucher and Celia MooreHarvard Business School Case 612-019 Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
They sent me to a French school in San Francisco. It was a bilingual school, but all the classes were taught in French. All the professors were French. And then I was in America. So, three languages right from the get go. It was my...
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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
taught many of our alums, Professor Clay Christensen, member of the MBA class of 1979, and a 1992 DBA grad. In addition to his teaching, Professor Christensen has written several influential business books, including The Innovator's...
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from...
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Howard (MBA 1971) Boiling Point Editions This story depicts a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East and spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Life can either grind you down or...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
can be extremely lonely.” That began to change in 1997, when Endeavor was founded to spur economic growth in emerging and developing markets, initially in Latin America. It now has offices in India, South Africa, and Turkey, with plans to set up shop in more countries...
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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
He grew up in a middle class environment, so he had a reasonably good environment. His mother taught him self-respect, his father was a strict disciplinarian who would engage in whippings in those days. But,...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
matter of avoiding particular missteps. Students really appreciate it when you have someone like Christina who is willing to come to class and talk openly about what happened.” In the stories that follow, alumni share their own takeaways...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine applicants to the Class of 2010 got a coveted acceptance letter. Almost no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
she is quite petite, just over five feet tall, a figure all the more surprising given the force of her presence. It may help explain why, when crowding into the back of a taxi, Oishi insists on occupying the uncomfortable middle seat,...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it The GOP tax scam is not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs. It is a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
important, too: as Houghton once wrote (paraphrasing Justice Learned Hand), “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” —GE Taran Swan Leading from the Middle Swan in 1998 at Nickelodeon...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
office here in New York City. I’d go into schools, and I’d go into their robotics classes and their computer science classes. I would just see lines and lines and lines of boys. I remember thinking, “Where are the girls?” I knew that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the same milestone meant to me, and it was because if only because we were already on different paths. I came from a strong middle class family, but education was part of my life. My father was the first...
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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are overleveraged. The View Details
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
even when the message is a positive and urgently needed one. “Every school is different,” Langford says diplomatically. “We don’t even use the word ‘curriculum.’ We say we have some resources available to them.” Over the past two years, 739 View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market...
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Martha Lagace