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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
selection," wrote Daniel A. Shanoff (HBS '02) in the September 17 edition. "We sweated the early-term cold call. The common metaphor we all bank on— that HBS is our own little oasis away from the 'real world'— was pierced. It's hard to...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
was not clear that the business was profitable. Rapid scale had come at a cost. In June 2016, BlackBuck had $5 million in the bank and two months of runway. BlackBuck’s focus had been on raising capital and hiring operational staff to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
companies and platoons, General Medina told him. He knew that world now. It’s hard to get out, the general explained. Plus, there were capital considerations. “How much money do you have in your bank account?” “You know, sir, I’ve got...
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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
When you become an entrepreneur, a woman entrepreneur, you basically are entering the single digits club, and it's a shock. It was a shock to me to go to meetings or dinners or whatever the case may be and just constantly be surrounded by...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
what all those employees, who call themselves "athenistas," will be doing: improving health care efficiency and quality by connecting doctors, hospitals, and patients. For decades now, EHRs—computerized versions of those banks of manila...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Great Recession. Over two days, guests and speakers—many of whom played key roles at the time, including former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA 1970), former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Paulson’s...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Robotic process automation, sometimes called “software robotics,” automates repetitive and routine digital processes using more or less the same steps as a human user. This could be inventory management, resume matching, or even opening...
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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on eDonkey to share digital files,...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Coursera. Leah has worked at the World Bank and the National Institutes of Health. She also served on the Obama administration technology policy committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. We’ll talk about Coursera’s evolution from...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
career in banking in 2018. “I am grateful to learn from the from practitioners, researchers, and educators who are consolidating best practices from countries throughout the world,” he says. “I am also mindful of the practical...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
also have a stake. Transportation affects health and safety. And all of us want to get somewhere, primarily for work. The biggest use of highways in America is work commuting. Even in a world going digital, we still need physical infrastructure—to support View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
2018, the organization announced a new ethics policy, so Culver Humphrey came forward with her story once again. Leadership rebuffed her a second time, so she met with the Oregonian. Team members were stunned by what they read. For many, including the NGO’s managing...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
collaborative.Spataro: Interestingly enough, what we’ve seen these digital tools do over the course of, let’s call it, the last two decades, is that, at the individual level, they have driven quite a bit of productivity. A spreadsheet is...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
we got and ultimately moved that to our eCommerce platform. And I took on a bunch of digital pieces, like our app store and our browser that we built and our gaming efforts. So, you know, along the way, things that work on as well, but...
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