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- 01 Oct 2001
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The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
research in Nicaragua. Last spring, the plan designed by the LCAE team, whose advisors included Thomke, entrepreneurs, consultants, product designers, and ophthalmologists, was selected as the winning entry over ten other...
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eyeglasses
- 01 Dec 2014
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Technology Making HBS More Accessible
believe more in today’s vision for HBS.” The Quazzos, who met while working in New York prior to attending HBS, have contributed to the School’s entry into online learning with gifts supporting HBX. “HBX offers a tremendous opportunity to...
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- 01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class
Readers subscribing to the “Life is real! Life is earnest!” philosophy may not have been thrilled by my two-part blog entry on “classroom hijinks” at HBS (see here and here). But they will be happy to hear that during my first-ever...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Taking the Plunge
high-end, traditional model toilets it introduced to the U.S. market in 1989, the Washlet, as the bidet-toilet is known, has been a much tougher sell. In “TOTO: The Bottom Line,” HBS associate professor Mary Tripsas considers barriers to View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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A Decade of Change
another social enterprise beyond the fellowship year. “The fellowship provides the opportunity to have a huge impact right away; it’s almost like you’re jumping two or three levels above the organization’s typical entry point,” said...
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- 14 Jun 2018
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Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
de-risks the entry for other investment opportunities. “At the end of the day, that helps people who are living on $1 a day increase their livelihoods by maybe a factor of 5x. We are, of course, focused on the economic side of investments...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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South Asian Women at Work
MBA degree from the University of Karachi, suitcases full of all my saris from my dowry, and an enormous amount of confidence — I’d almost say of naive confidence — in my ability to secure a corporate job at an entry level.” For three...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
infrastructure may be an unexpected burden, but it represents a strong opportunity to build entry barriers for future competitors. This is the story of Sabritas (Frito-Lay Mexico), Bimbo, and other power brands and billion-dollar firms in...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
chair and director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. The preceding is adapted from a longer blog entry published by the Huffington Post.
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Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Aug 2010
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Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
may have been their mascot, and 2005E had its E-Dawg (a sectionmate dressed up in a dog suit), on whom see here. Next week I’ll finish this blog entry with a discussion of games, parties, pranks, and celebrations of professors in their...
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- 28 May 2019
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Leading Questions
products companies and health care businesses to nonprofits. The companies that seek out this type of intensive leadership assessment and development are often going through significant change—rapid growth, a merger, entry into a new...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
in both engineering and creative writing, Yeh helped launch Juno Online Services, one of the pioneers of free e-mail. He then moved on to D.E. Shaw, where he developed strategic alliances for the firm's online brokerage division. But the most impressive View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
strong economy is also going to buoy Latinx entrepreneurs, who had difficulty both accessing funds through the Paycheck Protection Program and finding alternative sources of financial support—in addition to dealing with other barriers to View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
example with insights into leadership. He follows these pearls with engaging commentary from his own leadership experience and closes each entry with practical applications of immediate usefulness. The Sidewalk Gardens of New York by...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork
The master plan also calls for the construction of two buildings that would likely provide faculty and administrative space [6]. “One of these would be sited next to Spangler,” says O’Brien, “and the other along a newly configured Batten Way [7], which will become the...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
gradually became clear that the contest needed a different set of criteria for evaluating plans with socially oriented agendas. Entries in the new track will submit to the same timetable and demands as traditional plans but will compete...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Ruling from the Bench
third attempt to gain entry to this elite fraternity, Snyder succeeded — with the stipulation that she obtain a permission letter from her husband, Fred Snyder, a pediatrician. (After she ignored the request, the requirement was quietly...
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- 02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change
view video clips of her numerous national media appearances and read blog entries and other writings that embody her personal life philosophy to live without fear. A sought-after motivational speaker, Linn was also working on a book at...
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- 25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and in 1968, his entry to NASA, which early on sent him to the University of Michigan for a doctorate in radiation physics. Even as he rose through the ranks at the space agency, Earls' scientific...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside
ordered not to eat anything in advance of a test but was still given his usual dose of insulin. At hospitals that have modern IT systems, when food is being withheld for studies, corrected insulin orders are automatically suggested in the computerized order View Details