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- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
are echoed by their counterparts in the Global South. All these magnates—Ratan Tata, Anu Aga, Adi Godrej, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Devi Shetty and Rahul Bajaj, to name a few—have built, to general acclaim and acknowledgement, organizations...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
Chemdex founder David Perry echoes Rosin’s sentiments: “If you are serious about being an entrepreneur, the contest is a great experience because it will hold your feet to the fire on deliverables.” That said, Perry readily admits that...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
limitations and failings of his country's other companies. "It's not enough to do research on the 'can' aspect of Japanese management. There must also be work on the 'cannot' aspect," he said. "We have difficult problems, so this is a good time to do research."...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
school and for a lot of other places.” Joe O’Donnell (MBA ’71) echoes Menino’s comments. “I was in the restaurant business a while back,” he says modestly. (O’Donnell’s Boston Concessions, a billion-dollar business empire, already...
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- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
agreement, the equivalent of a prenuptial. It’s a much more robust team. They’ve been able to anticipate where there might be divergences and head them off at the pass. So lots of echoes that we have across those two domains, and the more...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
Africa produces 20 percent of Africa's GNP, an astounding figure considering its population of 41 million represents less than 6 percent of the continent. "South Africa is a regional superpower," echoes HBS associate professor Robert J....
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
we’ll be reading about the startups by some of these young people who are lying flat,” he notes. Even so, tang ping continues to echo in the online forums where China’s youth congregate. The concept has parallels in other countries,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
Humana health-care system, a view echoed by others. Moving the needle on safer, more efficient health-care delivery is as difficult as implementing organizational change in any business, with the important difference that doing so is a...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
"I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels risky and awkward, and people tend to question the motivation behind it." Still, companies around the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
echoed in the distance. The German troops were advancing more quickly than the OSS mission planners expected, and the Soviet forces were stalled. On September 22, just five days after his arrival, Green cabled Bari: “Believe situation...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
Ministry of Health to test new policies to improve infant HIV testing. Similar initiatives are under way in Uganda and Cambodia. We are a fee-for-service nonprofit and have received start-up support from the Echoing Green and Rainer...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
management and career development," she says. "I feel like I could call on anyone who was there for help with the next phase of my career. The program clearly exceeded my expectations." Broom echoes Bourneuf's sentiments, commenting, "It...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
Garvin remembers Christensen as “incredibly open,” a trait echoed by Robert Bruner (MBA ’74, DBA ’82), who served as a summer case-writing assistant to Christensen. “He supervised me in the same way that he taught — he asked questions,”...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
withering critiques at business schools in recent years. Warren Bennis at USC’s Marshall School of Business argues that they are “institutionalizing their own irrelevance” by becoming too focused on scientific research that has little connection to business reality....
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
appeal only “to the madness of the crowd,” letting complex issues such as energy independence go unresolved. “Between their corruption, their stupidity, and their playing to the crowds,” our political leaders have failed us, Dimon said, to another round of applause....
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
are already taking place.” On a Monday evening in early May, the South Scranton Intermediate School’s auditorium echoes with the voices of students, teachers, and parents, all wedged into uncomfortable wooden seats etched with decades of...
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