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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
puzzled through the fragments of his history, my mom and I did our best to fill in the gaps. Clinical decisions are only as good as the information you have to make them. As competent and well-meaning as my dad’s doctors were, they lacked...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared,...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Crimson Greetings simulation, for example, made use of Shad's squash and racquetball courts and a huge basement room equipped with vast tents) was like "solving one of those puzzles whose squares you slide around to create a picture -...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
told Bulletin readers that they were puzzling over how to expand the customer base of Saga, a mobile app that they cofounded to help families share stories in an audio format. They were wavering between whether to invest in partnerships...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its tenth year, the Bulletin’s annual student profiles have become something of a tradition. Faced each spring with a mountain of potential candidates, we puzzle our way through a dizzying array of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Spreading the Words
When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword View Details
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- 17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
just kind of lets you see why being here matters,” he told the Globe. Another piece in the puzzle of why Immelt wants to be in Boston brings him back to his roots at HBS, as he has developed strong relationships with the School, including...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Picture This
from wall art to puzzles to pillows. And its acquisition, last August, of Spoonflower—an artist marketplace for custom-designed fabric, wallpaper, and other home-decor items—puts Shutterfly in a prime position to leverage consumer...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
memorable. Dan spoke from his home in North Carolina. How did you get the idea to write a book about sticky ideas? We were puzzled and a little disturbed by the fact that a lot of “junk” ideas succeed in the world, while a lot of...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
of the product is identical by law. That was an interesting puzzle to me.” After focusing his study on antiretrovirals, Deshpandé saw other issues emerge. At the same time, he was asked to join the teaching team for Leadership and...
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- 11 May 2011
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In a Good Place
that skill can come in handy when juggling the many demands of GreenFlea, a moving puzzle of vendors, each with his or her own personality and demands. (Gehrke’s is the only full-time position; twelve employees help out on the day of the...
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
reminded me of how effective film can be at sharing a complex topic with large audiences. “But a particular and obvious question puzzled me: Why haven’t films like Chasing Ice, The Island President, and An Inconvenient Truth, to name a...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,...
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- 03 Apr 2016
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The Tampon of the Future
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) Is it possible to draw blood from a person without causing discomfort? That question has puzzled scientists for years. And the solution—for women, at least—finally is coming to market as...
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- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of how few people—neither the ones depicted on the wall nor the artists who had made them—looked like her. “I noticed it and I puzzled over it for a long time. People, in some way, want to see themselves and, up until recently, there have...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
during this period is extraordinary and has been made possible by the fact that we canceled all elective procedures. One of the puzzles we’re beginning to think about is how to transition the workforce back. How do we continue to have the...
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- 03 Jan 2018
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Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
when you're not. And so, if I don't know the answer, I've just learned to say I don't know. And the reality is, there are moments in all of our lives where we just don't know the answer. And I think it's OK to be puzzled with a question...
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