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- 01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold
unedited, unpredictable, and spontaneous. I thought: “People say I’m entertaining. I have big opinions. I’m too ugly for television, but how about radio?” I persuaded the owner of a tiny 1,000-watt station in Westport to let me work for free. At night, the station...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand
calling all the signals and plugging the holes," he says he has now learned to "let go of the nitty-gritty and let people do their jobs. " He adds, "The most rewarding thing in business is stepping back and watching other people do what...
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2015
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State of the Unions
out a contract. “The auto industry is a top-of-the-food-chain type of employer,” says Silvers, explaining that most labor organizations look to the UAW as a role model for negotiations across the country and a signal about the direction...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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A New Path for Alumnae
practices, most felt they were professionally sidelined. The women who elected to leave the paid workforce altogether felt even more disadvantaged when they later chose to return to it. For Hart, this signaled an opportunity for HBS to...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
(i-lab). Doris and Sauer were a natural fit for these roles. In 1986, they left Lucasfilm to found Sonic Solutions, where they developed and marketed audio signal processing, professional sound editing, and later DVD and digital video...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at...
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- 28 Oct 2014
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The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
What was the inspiration behind Reveal? “The inspiration for Reveal happened in 2009 during my second year at HBS. I got an illness called GBS (Guillain-Barré Syndrome) that stripped the protein sheaths around my nerves so they couldn’t take View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains
the bills due to a vested political interest in their outcomes. Using this model, the researchers discovered a phenomenon undetected by markets: After passage of such signal legislation, firms in the affected industries yielded abnormally...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing markets" View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not be easy to obtain, or to sell their assets and get out of the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset
thinks, “God, don’t let there be more.” That day’s events signaled for Cohen, the Undersecretary of State for Management, and for other State Department employees, that the world had changed. The two embassy attacks killed more than 220...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
that will increase the value of the relationship for both of us. Social media provides a way for us to communicate with our customers, rather than just talking to them, as most marketing communications do. Both physically and virtually, consumers are constantly View Details
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April White
- 24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
opportunities, all with pre-negotiated flexibility from our proprietary framework. Alumna: Anna Auerbach, MBA 2010 Region: Northeastern US/New York Xtelligent: Bridging today’s traffic signals to tomorrow’s connected and autonomous...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story
to believe that Apple can maintain that incredible level of success.” The verdict is still out on that question, says Yoffie. Even so, the iPod has altered the fundamental dynamics of Apple. In a change that signals the company’s growing...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
them. And so I sort of approached the investment process with some degree of skepticism in terms of how interested they would be, and it was a very fast turnaround. They basically decided in a day to invest in our seed round, and it was-- that was probably the first...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
years. "President Bush felt strongly about normalizing relations with China and opening that market to American business," says Franklin. "My mission to Beijing to reconvene the Joint Commission was a win-win situation. The sanction was lifted and a View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
realized he had found the opportunity of a lifetime. Shortly thereafter, in rural Ohio, Hostetter and his friend, H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), set up their own cable enterprise - Continental Cablevision - little more than an antenna service to boost local TV View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the mobile application...
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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