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- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
new idea.” In other words, we may be a long way from the Renaissance, but when it comes to novel developments, there still might be some value in being a Renaissance man or woman. “Having more diversified knowledge and being a...
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by Michael Blanding
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 201920s19 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant bootlegging and organized crime Influence: Medium 301930s19 Escapism in radio...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
association president Bif Browning. “And that’s something we’ve never seen.” Boosters like Browning hope their partnership with Dlodlo will provide a model for equitable, community-driven redevelopment elsewhere. And they see her efforts spurring a local View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
campuses asking students, in Shahani's words, to "pitch their dream"—a tactic meant to identify a pool of potential Godrej employees who can help shake up the brand. It, too, has Nisa's full backing. "She's very much a Renaissance...
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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
at best, laughably foreign or emasculated at worst. Even at a young age, those portrayals stung; being Asian always meant being abnormal, being less...important. Fortunately, thanks to the grit and determination of diverse voices, we’re living in a View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
next step in the independent bookstore renaissance may be a form of collective bargaining with publishers, suggests BookHampton’s Brody, but for now, many independent booksellers are grateful for the continued existence of Barnes & Noble,...
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April White
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to make money...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
King of his castle
and Renaissance fairs into a successful business that has delighted the thousands who visit his Sherwood Forest Faire near Austin, Texas. Appling's recreation of a late 12th-century village on 23 acres comprises more than a hundred...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
Above: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) at GM World in Detroit’s Renaissance Center (photo by Brian Kelly) Who you are is the sum total of your experiences. Growing up in Chennai, India, the importance of education and working incredibly...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
A Fine Collection
summer, in downtown Stamford, Connecticut, the Williamses bought a classic building (constructed in 1894, in a Neo-Italian Renaissance style) to house their collection. They do not intend to make it a museum, but instead will restrict...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
committee. "This is extraordinary progress, and postapartheid South Africa is very much at the center of this renaissance - the potential engine of change." Buoyed by the rave reviews of this year's Alumni Conference in Chicago (see page...
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- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
regenerate the "industrial commons"? What do you think? Original Article A new book, Producing Prosperity , by profs. Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, argues that a manufacturing renaissance is critical to the process-oriented...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
and can change the course of history. By analyzing the hidden patterns of their careers, Mukunda sheds important new light on how the best leaders can be identified. Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance by...
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- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
Riders to the Sea — have been staged in the chapel, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was played there too, albeit in an arrangement for only flute, violin, cello, and piano. Composers whose works have been heard in the chapel range from the 16th-century View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
investor. The fund now has investments in 23 companies around the U.S. in 12 different industries. The Minority Renaissance in Venture Capital Like most new business ventures, Harlem Capital was created to fill a gap in the market and to...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
vision has resulted in many financially driven companies becoming more mission-oriented. In this changing climate, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton (DBA '73), president of Renaissance Solutions, offer a performance measurement...
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- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Renaissance Italy to the nineteenth-century USA to South Korea in the 1960s and contemporary China. This does not mean that governments always know what they are doing, far from it, but it does indicate that our debates should be over...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
that the police can do their jobs and everyone can have a safer place to live and work. The most important thing is stimulating an economic renaissance in Baltimore, and that means jobs for the systemically unemployed and opportunities...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
For centuries, Europe has been at the forefront of innovation: the Greek and Roman architects, the Renaissance inventors, the intrepid navigators in the Age of Exploration. Even in more recent history, Europe has dazzled in its efforts to...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
(MBA 1980) recent exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery did just that, focusing attention on how black figures have been depicted in artwork ranging from the often-overlooked servant in Édouard Manet’s Olympia to artists of the Harlem View Details
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Julia Hanna