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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique circumstances presented View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive...
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- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
and principal owner of the Westmoreland Glass Company, a maker of functional and decorative glassware. Wilson still remembers the day when, as a four-year-old, he was taken by his grandfather to visit the factory. "I can still recall the...
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- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of African American artists,” she says. Over time, Joyner’s collecting has evolved to include pieces by mid-career American artists such as Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, and Lorna Simpson. More recently, she has sought out...
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Jill Radsken
- 10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
prepares highly qualified professionals for high-level roles in the social sector. “We’re focused on developing leaders at all levels for the world’s greatest challenges,” she says of ProInspire, which was recently named one of “7 Nonprofits to Watch in 2015” View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also suggest that chains that do not franchise at all may cope with...
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Martha Lagace
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
the US and with 12 regional editions, reached a milestone of more than 340,000 paid annual subscribers. Launched in 1922 by Dean Wallace B. Donham with an initial print run of 6,000 copies, the magazine struggled financially for its first...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
had been the beneficiary of people who cared. And they cared by creating programs that were designed to help the less fortunate, they cared by creating programs that were designed to help Black people who...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as...
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Julia Hanna
- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is...
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Agriculture
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
intersection of large historical forces and individual human agency that we have our best hope of reconstructing the past truthfully. Of those dozens of Times articles you selected, do you have any favorites? My favorites range from Times columnist View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
achieved, he never ceased to believe that what had happened before could happen again. Reprinted from Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, by Richard S. Tedlow, by arrangement with Portfolio, a...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)...
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- 15 Sep 2016
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US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a...
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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
75 Barclay Street by fallen debris, Joe Lhota, Giuliani, Kerik, and other city officials were stunned. "At first, we couldn't comprehend that the tower had completely collapsed," Lhota recalls. "We'd been standing with First Deputy Fire...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new...
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Francis Storrs