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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
remain vital to Boeing's ongoing operations today. COVID-19: Mankind’s Bitter Battle, A Blueprint to Conquer an Epidemic By Rajendra K. Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) Independently published When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, author...
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
that, we can do that. She was like, run through those ideas again. And one of the ideas was based on an open-source project that I started in my last company with a guy named Lee Holloway, who’s our third co-founder and at Cloudflare. And...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
foreign-corruption legislation extant. High-level bribery is part of the fabric of many societies, Wells says, because in a number of developing countries, the scarcity of well-paying jobs, among other reasons, encourages officials to make money while their View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
amount of attention. But my data says that about 65% of the country at the moment is pretty unhappy with Trump. And yet is also just disappointed in the Democratic Party, which they feel is old faces with old ideas. The interesting thing is, though, View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
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The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
buckets: self-control, resilience, and maintaining respect for others. I was required to have self-control to not go out to college parties or stay up late, knowing that I had afternoon practice or a game the next day. I learned...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
fabric and psyche of our country.” Cunningham, who left the CMO role at Hess to come to McDonald’s, likewise couldn’t ignore the opportunity to have an impact at a massive scale. But it was personal, too: As a kid, Kempczinski had his birthday View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That is a View Details
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
around our inability to ensure that all children attain foundational literacy and numeracy skills. In simple words, if a child at age 10 can’t read and do basic math, they get left behind and can’t independently access the texts. The...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
away from the golden handcuffs to try something on my own. When that didn’t work, I tried another venture (which also didn’t work) and then went back to work for the company I had left. After another 5 years, I tried my third new venture,...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
But we felt if we marketed the shoe under a smaller brand, it might be taken more seriously as a specialty product.” The creative deal hashed out between the companies called for GoLite to get a cash infusion (neither party will say how...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
up front, given people a discount for paying a year’s worth of services in advance, and employed a number of other innovative tactics, the company turned cash-flow positive in its third week of operations and thereafter simply coined...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
down the generations, leading Everett Scudder and his daughter Roseanne to struggle for the dignity of all people. Harp by Nidhi Dalmia (OPM 22, 1995) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Set in the late sixties, this romantic...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
difficult to do. It takes several hours, and there is a lot of opinion masquerading as fact. The media space is becoming more and more crowded every day, and in many ways that’s why we have to exist. We view ourselves as independent in a...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
entrepreneurial," says O'Donnell, "and the idea of being independent has always been important to me." The son of a policeman, O'Donnell attended Harvard College on a scholarship and started a successful student housing service while he...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
financial independence and control.” The response to iTrust’s financial planning seminars for women has been “overwhelming” and bodes well for the future “because women are more open to and are more likely to adopt a financial planning...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
Herculean task of getting EMRI up and running in six months. When he accomplished the nearly impossible in seven months, launching the service on August 15, 2005, Indian Independence Day, Raju pointed out that he was a month behind...
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- 03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
are putting those satellites up there that will benefit directly or other third parties that could rise from that is one thing we could look at. The cost of access to space though is really the key thing....
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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