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- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
that want to address persistent inequities. The goal is to achieve for DEI efforts what the LEED standards have done for sustainability in the construction world: to provide measurable and attainable guidelines. Walker & Dunlop, a real...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
drives innovation. Persist — most people give up too soon. Love many things, so you’ll want to master them or make them better.). After Thomke’s class, Randal performed to an overflow crowd of HBS students and staff. It was just another...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
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 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles
Criticisms of CEO pay have two related themes: It is too high, and is not closely related to company performance. These problems persist for complex reasons even as directors worry about them. The most significant reason is that board...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
site, but building a persistent brand is a difficult and expensive proposition. "Online customers clamor for attention to be paid to them," she said. "They expect a high degree of customization and politeness." The next panel moved from...
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- 13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
can help a lot, and yet these are not sufficient. Entrepreneurship is a skill you learn out in the wild, through failure after failure and through persistence when everything seems to be going against you.” How did your HBS experience...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
it made us understand what you have to do and the persistence that you have to find inside yourself to really be successful. My first job at Fidelity was the summer after I got out of high school in a place called the Wire Room, where you...
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- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
That's just my persistence that I have. And so I kind of knew, there's no way I'm going to stop. Morrell: Now, Francis, you're finishing your tour of Africa. Tell me when it is you leave Africa. Tapon: Should be in September of 2018....
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling
persistently - the push for human rights and the rule of law in China. Without those concepts in place, the country's economy will never develop properly." She adds that "the most-respected American companies in China are the ones that...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth strategy using View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, but was denied a transfer to the university’s all-white College of Arts & Sciences when he wanted to change his major to chemistry. His persistence won out, however, and...
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- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
poverty, inequality, access, and opportunity are deeply economic and political, and often persist even when the right laws are in place because of market or government failure." The chance to study with Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jim Austin,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. In their recent...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
identify goals, overcome obstacles, and persist until their goals are realized. That determined individuals can bring about changes big and small is reinforced in almost every movie ever made. That's an invaluable contribution that helps...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly? Why did Wall Street and institutional investors View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
and control is often an illusion. Connecting with friends and with nature, Suchors discovers a source of spiritual nourishment, spaces powerful enough to absorb her grief, and joy in the persistence of love and beauty. Risk: Living on the...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
and learning tools outside of school. We’ve optimized digital learning tools for use inside classrooms over the last decade. There’s a long way to go to ensure that seamless, high-quality learning experiences persist whether students are...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
who are restless and persistent improvers for the customer -- people who can put themselves in the shoes of the customer and then drive change inside our company to meet the customer's needs. We want managers who can articulate a vision...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
several of the key issues that were discussed over the next two days. Sachs stressed that "Africa's development challenge is the world's greatest economic challenge." After touching on some of the region's persistent problems - AIDS and...
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Susan Young