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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
many players who believe they can beat the odds." Advances and Advantages Technological advances made since the early 1990s continue to play an important role in exploration and production for all oil and gas companies, regardless of...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
that the new companies’ high labor costs undercut their ability to compete. A second example would be the Australians’ creation of eleven incubator centers to provide financing and advice to information technology start-ups. Much of the...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa....
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.
organized and staying focused. Among other things, he recommends beating procrastination by working on large, overwhelming projects in small, finite periods of time; reviewing technology to make sure it’s not making more work; and cutting...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
San Francisco. It focused on two areas where Doerr would soon have tremendous influence: information technology and science-based business. “The main thing we do— that we’ve always done—is build upon the best ideas of entrepreneurs,”...
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- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of September 11, 2001. She spent a year...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
create something that hasn’t existed before, an influential, international institution that will be around in 200 or 300 years. We don’t want be just a cute website, but something that makes the content and the tools of a world-class education available to everyone,...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green
goals — and how it continues to do so even after Burt’s is acquired for $913 million by Clorox in 2007. The case, produced with assistance from HBS’s Educational Technology Group, takes full advantage of its medium, painting a colorful,...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
arm’ s length, that inherent cronyism makes it difficult to clean house when high-level insiders turn out to be bad apples. A CEO once said to me, “Business is the last monarchy.” All the recent disclosures about the incredible...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
analytics-focused consulting firm made sense at a time when technology breakthroughs were fueling exponential growth in data generation and consumption. His three former employers—Answerthink, Bain, and Dow—quickly became the startup’s...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
sync with the larger interests of the nation. Paul Healy: We may have been through these experiences before, but it's shocking where we have ended up, given all the advances in technology and improvements in governance. In spite of all...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
scenario—that there will be a few people who make a lot of money and leave behind a mess for others to clean up. And the main thing is that the expectations of a long-term production boost are unfounded. That goes for the Bakken and this...
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- 04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”
by the metal detectors as a piece of potentially silver. So after they started to clean it, little by little the name appeared, and then the code appeared and the emotion was very strong, because suddenly they started to realize this was...
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- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
options without discarding them, that's where you get stuck in a negative sort of loop. Anybody here know who Marie Kondo is? Marie Kondo, we love her. She's this expert on cleaning your house. And she says, "When you get rid of...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
complex and a science museum, renovating the theater district, cleaning up the waterfront area, restoring the city's NFL franchise, securing the rights to house the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and developing affordable...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
immediately became a bestseller, with total sales exceeding 1 million copies by mid-1964. Often credited with kick-starting a range of governmental actions in the United States and abroad, including the Clean Water Act and the founding of...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant....
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