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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee,...
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- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
white counterparts." Ely's contribution, he went on to explain, is in developing theory about when and under what circumstances diversity leads to process gains or losses. The questions she asks, he said, include: How do...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
He grew up in a middle class environment, so he had a reasonably good environment. His mother taught him self-respect, his father was a strict disciplinarian who would engage in whippings in those days. But, at age six, he was playing...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
ground daily on the spot. The sample board, always filled with fresh bread slices, gave customers the chance to try the regular and seasonal favorites, including Grandma’s White Bread, honey whole wheat, cinnamon swirl, nine-grain, and...
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- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
Eisenmann’s Startup Bootcamp, Rock Accelerator, and Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program all teach entrepreneurial best practices. Despite good effort, finding a technical co-founder remains a challenge and can undermine a...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
there were eight of these leaders on the dais, with Judy Woodruff moderating. It was incredible to see them together, talking about the challenges of leadership. Would the CWWL members tend to agree on a definition of good leadership?...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
Pennsylvania. After earning her degree from HBS, Franklin worked in strategic planning for the Singer Company and later for Citibank, where she received a phone call from an HBS classmate working in the Nixon White House. He was looking...
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Anna King
Anna King, MBA 2015, has been a nanny, an analyst for an international spa company, an associate at an angel investment fund and the "right-hand woman" to a former White House chief of staff. She has deep interests in start-up...
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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
White House conference on environmental quality that convened engineering firms and federal procurement officials, both the Defense Department and the EPA approached the Zofnass Program to learn more about Envision. Zofnass Program...
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- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,...
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- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
private and non-profit sectors. “HBS is very good at training leaders, and teaching problem-solving skills and building up the foundation of confidence, motivation, and outlook to attack a challenge,” he says. “For much of my life I...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
estimated that price tag at a shocking $504 billion for 2015. Having parked, Langford is now maneuvering a cardboard box full of spiral-bound white papers through a series of doors leading to a Carter Center conference room. The...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
the Public Broadcasting Service, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Teach For America. Fellows also did their part for organizations and governments in several other nations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
different backgrounds, the students are here for similar reasons. Startup Lockdown is a good trial run for a budding entrepreneur, says Behrens. He’s hoping the week will help him answer two important questions: “Am I really the person...
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- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
professor Tom Eisenmann’s Startup Bootcamp, Rock Accelerator, and Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program all teach entrepreneurial best practices. Despite good effort, finding a technical co-founder remains a challenge and can...
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Technology
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
through sheer size and number of transactions. Unfortunately, there are quite a few good reasons that the marketplace model doesn't work for reCommerce of used electronics (see my article in the March 2013 Harvard Business Review, 'Do You...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
find a strategy that honors the company's values and also works in the particular environment. In another series of cases detailing the pressures of competing values systems, Paine writes about the Haier Group, a Chinese refrigerator and View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
that. I think people had issues with her transparency or whatever. But there were a significant number of people who had a huge distaste for Donald Trump, but who really believed that Hillary Clinton was the last person in the world you'd want to put in the View Details