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- 07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back
the momentum to continue as Upside starts to manage more company exits and to scale up in Montreal, Vancouver, and on Canada’s Atlantic coast. “It’s exciting to play a part in expanding the philanthropic pool in our country,” Goldstein...
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- 20 Jul 2016
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How Amazon Adapted Its Business Model to India
- 21 Aug 2008
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Stylin’ at Gallatin
here. Gallatin was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1927 as a collection of what were essentially linked townhouses on a U-shaped plan. The building was no doubt charming but a bit of a warren: Some students had to leave their doors unlocked because...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
on prescription drugs and heroin, it won’t take much to see significant ROI. Langford is driving again. The Camry has 96,000 miles on the odometer; despite his success in building and leading tech companies, Langford will admit that he did not time his investment View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation
rather than inspirational leadership.” Of one CEO’s recent exit package ($26.4 million in stock, plus $100 million in cash), Ferracone, noting that the individual’s compensation history was already excessive, told USA Today (November 11,...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the gynecological disease that affects the...
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- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
raise money to pay the exit fee and became the cooperative’s new green-energy utility, all while promising about $100 million in energy-cost savings over the next 10 years. Guzman Energy is also helping the community build its own...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on entrepreneurship, where we...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
possibly make a profit. If American companies couldn't raise their prices to OEMs, exit was the only option. Moreover, this was obvious to anyone who could do arithmetic. So why did these things happen this way? If the tire companies...
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- 23 Mar 2020
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Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic....
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap
time. They spun Aliro out of Harvard’s Quantum Information Science Lab, then incubated it at the Harvard i-lab. Ricotta came on board in 2019. A seasoned tech CEO, he had already launched a number of startups into emerging networking fields that resulted in...
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- 02 Aug 2017
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The Atlantic Finds a New Home
(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) On Friday, David Bradley (MBA 1977) announced that he would be selling the Atlantic magazine to Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In a staff memo published in the...
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- 30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
designed to immerse visitors in a contemplative experience. Ceilings and walls are deemphasized and there are no exit signs, smoke detectors, or visible security cameras. “There is nothing to distract people from looking at art and...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
entrepreneurs to think about those dynamics as they build their board. Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, for instance, have a very different incentive for exit than some of the more traditional VC firms. They would be much more willing to...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2004
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David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
his new team back through the DMZ to the two key breach sites. As Major Gurfein lead the Task Force toward the final objective, he again received indirect fire from Iraqi 82mm mortars and direct fire from Iraqi small arms. Once his Task Force reached the berm, Major...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentists. (Just under half of the clinics are in Delhi and its surroundings.) Singh plans to open 600 clinics by 2020, and then develop a strategy for another stage of rapid growth. “I have to show a path from 600 to 6,000 if I am to permit an View Details
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
challenges traditional views about the source of Japan's competitive success. Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, head of the unit's required course, Competition and Strategy, focuses on strategic commitments - decisions that involve significant amounts of irreversibility, such...
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Susan Young
- 23 Aug 2018
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Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
“Those first six have had over 550 members attend the live events, and all of our HBSHAA members have access to the recordings after the events,” she says. Recent VRT topics have included a panel discussion with leaders from CVS, talking about their strategic decision...
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