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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship....
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- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
which means traveling 10,000 leagues is like reading 10,000 books. I'm always discovering something new, learning about a different group of people, tasting different food, learning about a different kind of...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
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Turning Point: Change, Stat
school started with the professor advising, “Don’t be that doctor that tries new things out. Let it be on the market for at least five years before you start prescribing it.” COVID broke through all of that. We sent over 2,000 low-oxygen patients home with a $20 pulse...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making sure all the numbers actually...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
learning how to manage. Ultimately though, he would go on to spend 35 years at the company, becoming CEO in 2001. He was so dedicated to GE that, at age 50, he got the company's logo tattooed on his leg. Immelt, now venture partner at New...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that “you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn’t look promising, even when you are at the top.” The third interpretation of inflection...
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Roger Thompson
- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
of the research problem, at this point. I’m the subject and I’m the researcher. I’m like a perpetual-motion machine of happiness research.” In this conversation with the Bulletin, Professor Brooks talks about why happiness has become such...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable of enforcing its own protective...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
sometimes people ask us, you know, what are you doing at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the answer is not a whole lot. We're actually just taking some of the basic tools...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also, thanks to the Delaware courts’...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
create a culture of gratitude and positive reinforcement of the values that members espouse. Reimert learned these lessons firsthand as a remote worker from the very start of her career. When she began at the high-tech firm, the job offer...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
disappointments? To learn more about some of the ramifications, pitfalls, and managerial issues associated with the M&A; process, the Bulletin asked a number of HBS faculty members to comment on the M&A; phenomenon from their several...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
had learned as a corporation how to do things that all corporations must do if they are to succeed. Two of these deserve special note. First, Intel had learned how to grow. Second, it had View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
approach. The authors draw on years of research and teaching to deliver a truly interactive learning experience. The case studies cover all areas of corporate finance, including capital structure, financing needs, and project and company...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
career in banking in 2018. “I am grateful to learn from the from practitioners, researchers, and educators who are consolidating best practices from countries throughout the world,” he says. “I am also mindful of the practical...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
surroundings, and learning as we go. That’s biological intelligence. But artificial intelligence—at least the way that it’s currently constructed—doesn’t work this way. Let’s use Google as an example. HEAR MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
with, what percentage of them would change their vote if they could do it all over again out of the 400 voters? Well, there are three out of the 400 that would change their vote. But again, this is MBA's. How do you interpret this? That...
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