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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
yet-to-be-constructed plant 40 miles from Caen. Viana’s bid to produce luxury madeleines in a new, nearby location with 16 of the original workers was the obvious favorite, but it required an estimated 2.8 million he had yet to secure....
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a shortfall in demand due to “some...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
shui should be seen as an additional, low-cost management tool. but an unconventional managment tool. Feng shui is not magic, it's not superstition, and it's not a religion. It's a science, more than 3,500...
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- 20 Aug 2016
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The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
seeing these doctors talk to us and him gradually getting better. That was what really planted the seed in me that I might want to go to medical school. This would be a great thing I could do for people, something that they did for my...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
revolutionary orthopedic devices to market and changing the surgical approach to healing broken bones. After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1959, he worked for Chrysler Corporation, helping set up manufacturing View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No disrespect to Detroit and...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
home. A discussion of world events would follow. "We were very well informed as kids," remarks Wyss, who maintains an active interest in policy and geopolitical issues. That knowledge of the world came in handy in the early years of Wyss's career, when he worked as a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million...
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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
lead to the chapel’s revitalization, calling on help from a local lawyer, Steve Kaplan, and reaching out to Michael Noonan, a senior planning manager with Hennepin County. He hadn’t spent much time in North Minneapolis, but knew there was...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
wanted the city back about its regular commercial business. "The business community's number one concern," he says, "was getting the power back on," so that computers, elevators, office lights, and heating would work. A Con Ed generating View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
feel like a million dollars, because I had successfully defended my position in front of 70 people and a tough professor. I was in love with marketing from then on, but Chip Bupp, my operations and production management professor, showed...
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- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner Baumann (MBA 1999), who serves...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
you'll find him on his ranch twenty miles north, just across the Red River. While he has playfully named the spread he bought at auction in 1991 the HalfFast Ranch, his routine is anything but “half fast.” A day's work might include herding cattle; plowing a pasture,...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
bitterness of an IPA. To change that, Murad launched White Owl Brewery in his hometown of Mumbai in 2014. A few years later, contract manufactured at plants in northern and southern India, White Owl currently offers four different brews...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Sonne explained that children are attracted to dandelions, intrigued by them, but as people get older they begin to see them as weeds. “A weed is really a plant in an unwanted place. If you take that plant...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and military...
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- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town...
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Dan Morrell