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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
emerging markets. With trophies hoisted and handshakes all around, another contest comes to a close. A winning participant bounds up the stairs of Burden before the crowd has even dispersed — for him, and...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front...
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
my turn. But now it was Jim who goaded me on: “I dare you to do that again!” So, I threw again, and, believe it or not, dunked him a second time. The crowd thought this was hysterical, but the person who was laughing hardest View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts,...
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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, which was devastated by Hurricane Eta in November 2020. With widespread damage to their homes and crops, communities were forced to shelter in crowded camps, in spite View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
Editor's note: Check out the crowd at a concert, a movie, a school play, a beach—heck, even a funeral—and you'll likely see several people sneaking prolonged peeks at their smartphones. They just can't help themselves. Ringtones and...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
wheels together and they would try to blow each other down. Right? And the winner would obviously have the larger crowd that that night. So you have to put it in the context of Bolden constantly feeling like...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Illustrations by Greg Clarke Recent alumni may not believe it, but there was a time when it was the Written Word — more so than cold calls or attacks of classroom amnesia — that struck fear in the hearts of...
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Garry Emmons
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
long espoused a “doing well by doing good” philosophy going back to founding figure William Lever. In the late nineteenth century, Lever had built a business by making and selling household soap that he hoped would improve hygiene and reduce illness in the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
environment and the quality of life if it is to stay competitive. Building Global Bridges Dean Clark's Sunday afternoon address outlining his vision for the School in the 21st century complemented the conference's global theme. Addressing...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
of the experience. You are paying almost $500 for lunch, so being made to feel part of the in crowd is actually really beneficial and important. [Noma] has one four-hour...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
airfield to see what was happening. Their clandestine arrival was “a carnival,” according to one of the B-17 pilots. The crowd burst into applause at the sight of Green in his...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
this seemed timeless and unchanging - until recently. A Whole New Ball Game At first glance, the scene suggests classic Americana, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting: a football star, larger than life, visiting a classroom View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the...
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Julia Hanna