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- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds that all these various activities...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
— water provision to the urban poor, water education, and environmental protection — that reflect the social issues we can address as a water and wastewater service provider. These programs were carefully...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson
of that, in French! Flying fish are amazing to see, though I wore a helmet with a clear Lexan visor to protect myself: They glide at 25 knots, so you don’t want to get hit in the eye. In the Southern Ocean, the albatross are beautiful...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
reach a lot of people that way.” The alternative might be less targeted initially but with bigger potential in the long term: pursuing partnerships or affiliate programs with larger entities that already sell to families, like the AARP....
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Advanced Management Program for senior executives (AMP), the International Senior Managers Program (now part of AMP), and the General Manager Program. Uyterhoeven’s late friend and colleague Professor Norman...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
prices could be changed in real time, wirelessly, to pitch a particular brand or model. “There was this scary moment of telling the scientists, ‘Guess what? We’re going to use your brilliant invention to sell sneakers.’ But they got into it, and we began a large View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations to determine how he would best fit into the field. Since that time, Kendall has brought innovative and pragmatic leadership to conservation efforts ranging from the protection of Costa Rican rain forests to Massachusetts...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
a bad quarter, successfully changing the company culture, and introducing a new business model. Nice Start: Questions Only You Can Answer to Create the Life Only You Can Live by Mark Chussil (MBA ’79) (Inkwater Press) Inside Story By Greg Dyke (AMP 105, 1989)...
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
passions. I received a concurrent MBA/MPA from HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School and was interested in working at the intersection of multiple sectors to address societal challenges and realize our society’s potential. I also had considered PhD View Details
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
the brand through other channels. But now he wonders whether to break it off. Sticking with Amazon means a simplified supply chain. The Fulfillment by Amazon program handles fast fulfillment and, with free shipping, the economics are...
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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public Application View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
decades of minority rule under apartheid, the government shaped a protected economy that virtually ignored the well-being of the country's black majority and left the country ill-prepared to compete in today's vigorous global marketplace....
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
in driving further innovation. It found that those patents filed by gender-balanced teams were cited much more frequently than those filed by single-gender teams. The Paycheck Fairness Act has brought attention to the compensation gap...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was fighting meta-static colon cancer. "My dad looked at me and said, 'Why don't you think about doing that?' I have...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
programs that any government could have, which was the drive to make India open-defecation-free. India went from having about 40 percent ownership of toilets, as in only 40 percent of the households own toilets, to what the government now...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce,...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts, which teach the statistics or...
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