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- 01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines
offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
then rent to marketers, who send our members online advertisements that match their stated interests and activities." So what's in it for members? ClickDough shares with them at least 50 percent of the revenues it earns from advertisers, whose View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
the business. An employment ad for engineers drew thousands of responses, but after years of Taliban rule, few had the necessary training or language skills. Overwhelmed, Roshan’s CTO at the time, Eric Chapman, came up with a new set of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
revenues, falling property prices, and increases in crime, since many foreclosures are clumped in certain neighborhoods. One of the reasons the housing market will be slow to recover is that foreclosures have added to the glut on the...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19, 1865—more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
Watford City, and Belfield had completely overbuilt—dug basins for homes that were never occupied, added on to schools with bond issues that were painful. So part of the rub today is that a lot of the locals—presidents of the banks, the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
of the city,” says Houston, adding that one of the museum’s primary goals is to provide a venue for world-class traveling cultural exhibits that have skipped Dallas in the past. Along with managing construction-related details, Houston’s...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
giant and added to his growing expertise in what it takes to “compete for a share of the entertainment hour” — a talent his beloved hometown baseball team, in dire economic straits back in San Francisco, sorely needed. Bye-Bye Giants Top:...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
a huge difference in economies," Nolan stated, adding that since drugstore.com entered the field, many more health-related Internet companies have followed. "Once a dot-com comes into an industry, the industry is never the same," he said....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
intranet. Clark outlined what he sees as the four aspects of leadership: strong values and high standards, a global perspective, an entrepreneurial spirit, and literacy in information technology. "We teach with the express purpose of...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2001
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Navigating Success in Volatile Times
grappled with whether we should cancel," said HBSAAA president Ken Powell (MBA '74). "We decided to go ahead because we wanted to contribute to New York's economic recovery as well as unite to support one another in difficult times," View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry
about how good bankers added value to the economy. That’s how I came to love banking.” Still, looking back, Quainton can see that HBS was also preparing him for ministry. “I am an off-the-charts introvert,”...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
borrowing DeWitt’s uniform for Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot, 7-inch circus performer added to the lineup as a pinch hitter. League officials changed the rules to prevent a repeat of the stunt — Gaedel walked on four pitches — but DeWitt’s...
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