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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
part of the Match Group that also owns Match.com. The app uses geolocation—a tactic popularized by the all-male dating app Grindr, which launched in 2009—to present potential dates who are nearby. And, most influentially, Tinder...
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April White
- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through...
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- 08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3,...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
evaluations, notes McCraw, "were an overwhelming collective valentine to the course." The Dynamics of Capitalist Revolutions — Cases in Point British Capitalism How the first industrializer set a standard for others to match Josiah...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run by View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
challenge will be the extremely concentrated demand, as more than 3 million visitors travel to Cup matches spread over a country that is the world's fifth largest by geographical area. "The dimension of Brazil poses a bigger challenge...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Inside MTV’s Global Fame
bar at 5 a.m. singing “Born in the USA.” Or his wrestling match with the deputy mayor of Leningrad on the floor of the Winter Palace. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Roedy was a few blocks away securing distribution for his fledgling...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Making Eco Easy
opportunity to create products that enable consumers to easily do the right thing,” says Paiji Yoo. It’s a sentiment shared by founding member Gina Pak (MBA 2015) who, as Blueland’s head of Marketing and Experience, was the one to deliver...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George P. Baker III, Carliss Y....
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Daniel Penrice
- 05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice...
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- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around agriculture, Black added. A...
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Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
So if fewer and fewer people are buying insurance policies, what are insurers going to do with their business? They should look at this as a changing market and realize that if they get in now, they could have a commanding mindshare of...
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- 22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
session over a week in June, where they were matched one-to-one with seven HBS alumni mentors for guidance on strategy, problem-solving, and more. The club designed the War Room series to allow HBS alumni to interact directly with...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
behind one of pop culture's most successful icons. Over the past decade, Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has frequented star-studded galas thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z, hung out with the CEO of Walt Disney Studios, and watched...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath house matches its neighbors in the historic area; but in its construction, the building is an innovation—and a proof of concept that could ultimately spark a home-design revolution. A Passive House is...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
and infrastructure, and with personnel costs that match European standards, we can compete only on the basis of high-quality French Caribbean service. We do have one luxury hotel that already exhibits that standard: the Cap Est Lagoon...
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