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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a...
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- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Way Millions Shop, and I had the opportunity to interview Alexandra. Learning more about what she gained from her experience at HBS inspired me to give business school a real look.” Once Girard landed at HBS, she experienced what so many students do. “It was like View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
transportation infrastructure, they come up against an accountability and measurement problem: how to address an urgent request from Ghana to fund community services-such as schools and drinking water-for which the results will be more...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
privately financed project that will provide enough desalinated seawater to provide drinking water for 300,000 San Diegans. The propriety of having private companies provide a public good like water may be controversial, but the economics...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
particularly daunting when cross-sector alliances are sought because information about the availability and suitability of partners is not readily available. Sometimes serendipity appears to play a role. The idea of forming an alliance with Starbucks Corporation came...
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by James Austin
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
effeminate classmates. To go on dates with women in hopes of 'making it work.' To ignore my feelings for Ben. To binge drink and feel less. It took me years to accomplish what my parents did that evening: Accepting me for who I am. I am...
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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
not a solution. Universal insurance enables the solution. The only solution to the healthcare problems in America is to dramatically improve the value we are getting for the money we are spending. Q: People who have bad health habits, who smoke, View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
something that makes the content and the tools of a world-class education available to everyone, the way that clean drinking water and electricity are things that everyone should have in their lives. Even now, a student can have that...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
create something that hasn’t existed before, an influential, international institution that will be around in 200 or 300 years. We don’t want be just a cute website, but something that makes the content and the tools of a world-class education available to everyone,...
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- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
thought they’d be sort of fun to test out. Food Dev Guest 1: How does it work? Julia: I have to say it’s a little like drinking through a twig and it’s very tiny. I might feel a little silly using this. I think I’ll just bring my metal...
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Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing...
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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
decades mixing and selling skin care formulas before she undertook to build a national market for her products. Howard Schultz did not grow up drinking specialty coffee, but as soon as he was introduced to the business, he learned as much...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
when her mother died of cancer at age 43. Consumed by grief, her father succumbed to drink and depression, and the family’s once-idyllic suburban life spiraled downward into poverty. Barely adolescent and lacking role models for success,...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment, investors are necessarily more focused on the...
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- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
inn and have drinks and play cards on weekend nights. But in terms of the procession through the town, which is about a day later, really had the environment where, I would say, almost everybody in Zavattarello came out into the streets...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Aksel Lund Svindal in the movie Streif—One Hell of a Ride. But no mention is ever made of the beverage’s restorative properties. Does Svindal drink Red Bull? We don’t know, and it doesn’t matter—he is too busy flying by at 80 mph, being...
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Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
2008, targeted at millions of low-income Indian consumers who did not have access to safe drinking water. The case describes in detail the product development and launch process that required HUL, the $3.5 billion Indian subsidiary, to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
whiffed management assignment, an unceremonious firing, or a failed marriage. Whatever the circumstances, one point becomes clear: The only real failure is not learning from one. Catch those stones While I have had “whoopsies” at jobs as diverse as Tang (the View Details
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
and the computer with one of the partner's secretaries," she recalls. She spent two-and-a-half years there, learning business at a high level. "It was like drinking from a fire hose." But something was missing. Sender felt like she still...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
emeritus Jim Austin and his wife, Cathy. It’s a welcome opportunity to swap stories about our experiences in the different villages and reflect on what we’ve seen while touring the Austins’ gardens, which provide vegetables to the local markets. More than a few...
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