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- 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success
Donny, thought they might have to return to Los Angeles. Through the Idea Village, Markowitz met Ti Martin, one of New Orleans’ leading restaurateurs. The two met for a lunch and talked about her options and the city’s needs. That meeting eventually led to her being...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
was an exception. Selected from 3,000 applicants, I learned that there is always a way if you never give up. A lack of role models did not bother me. I love doing things my way without being bothered by precedent. After HBS, I worked in...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled cellular phones in View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business. I can’t say enough about the people I met at the School. During the IPO road show, for example, at one of the group lunches, I found myself sitting across from Josh Clark, an HBS classmate who was managing a $1 billion–plus...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
for the Detroit effort, which was an honor for me.” Enabling Career Exploration Each year, the HBS Leadership Fellows Program gives a select group of graduating MBAs the financial flexibility to explore...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that also housed a hamburger stand. It was 100 square feet and featured a single copier, an offset press, film processing, and a small selection of stationery and school supplies. "I essentially had a concept that would work on any...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and...
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- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
businesses in the region, including meat processor OSI Group are finally rethinking their approach to sustainability by starting at the farming level and are no longer “agnostic” when it comes to climate change, said Nicole...
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Agriculture
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
were pulled off the website. “And we stopped trying to actively license our code,” says Numenta’s VP of engineering, Celeste Baranski. “This wasn’t a huge pivot but a tweak to concentrate completely on neuroscience research.” Her engineering View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
stories embody what makes HBS such a remarkable community and hint at the potential contributions these talented young people will make as alumni. While we always enjoy talking to these students, we can’t say that selecting them is an...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
maintaining a vibrant organization requires cultivating an environment that supports risk taking. Asking participants to recall situations in which their organizations succeeded and failed at being creative, Amabile then invited the women to share their stories in...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
available to their workers. The conference's agenda alternated between small breakout sessions that brought together participants from different industry areas and large group discussions where all attendees could compare notes. The...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
electronic-mail communication. Building on the knowledge gained from that project and from the use of personal computers in a few carefully selected MBA courses, the School moved in the mid-1980s to recommend strongly that students use...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Administration (HRPBA). A SELECT FEW: Women arrived at HBS with the same goal as their male counterparts: to further their education and find meaningful work. One of those women was Sara ("Sally") Wilkinson (HRPBA 1959, MBA 1960), who is...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
leadership, told us, “The few people on the Lehman board who actually had relevant experience were kind of like an all-star team from the 1980s back for an old-timers game in which they weren’t even up on the new rules and equipment. Fuld View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
FiveThirtyEight have partnered with us on South Asian American issues. When Kamala Harris was selected as the Democratic candidate for vice president, we saw so much nonsense analysis. This is the first year when I was fundraising in...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
The core issue, we believe, is gender. In many of our studies we’ve looked at women and men who don’t have children, and the women are still at a disadvantage, whether it’s in promotions, compensation, or being selected for leadership...
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