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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
opportunity to democratize what was in his youth the "black art" of photography. When he got interested in cameras in 1877, they were expensive (costing about $50), extraordinarily complicated contraptions requiring considerable...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Martin and Giraud em-phasize that Club Med will retain its core concept of the "magic" of the guest experience -- the interaction between guests, the gentils membres or GMs, and their youthful hosts, the gentils organisateurs or GOs....
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto,...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Himalayan climbing team, the executive director of an innovative low-income senior housing community, and the founder of a pioneering youth basketball program for girls. Examples of “fixing it” also come from the journeys of entrepreneurs...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
body for the men's and women's national teams and for youth soccer. Nike bankrolled the USSF with $120 million over the next eight years. Clinten W. Hendricks (MBA '87) is in charge of the marketing, planning, and overall execution of...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
with all these ideas that the company could be taken over and it’s not being well run and a lot of youthful naivete and enthusiasm. So in those first few months of '87 after my dad died, I'd study for my cases that night, go to class. But...
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- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among disadvantaged youth and created a...
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by Kristen Senz
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
holistic childhood development, and livelihood training for youth between the ages of 6 to 18. By 2017, there were 400,000 children in its various programs. The organization had been through three phases of growth. The case poses the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
she'd created for herself caused her to ignore the more intuitive part of the leadership equation, with disastrous results—until she let go of the need to appear invulnerable and reached out to another manager. Jon, a personal trainer who had virtually no experience...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
teaching tools. She also served as the COO of Up with People, a nonprofit international youth leadership program. Kim and Coup also have worked on national political campaigns. After reading Jardine’s book, Coup was inspired, even...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
that if you want something in life, you have to be totally focused, you have to be driven, and you have to be disciplined,” explains Russo. She remains true to her own advice, and despite her misgivings about youthful softness, she...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
generation of players," O'Reilly notes. "There are 10,000 youth football leagues across the country, and our goal is that all coaches be certified and that each league has a designated player-safety coach." JUST SUPER: Patriots owner...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
opportunity, marshaling of required resources, exploitation of opportunity, and harvesting." In other words, "entrepreneurship" is a way of managing that occurs in organizations large or small, youthful or experienced. Underpinning...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
that is ultimately deadly. “I’m really sad that some of these [drugs] are in the songs we listen to,” one girl muses. They’re opening up, thinking about what they’re learning with the sort of fresh perspective that comes with youth and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
resident of Brazil who first demonstrated extraordinary leadership skills as a youthful commander in the underground resistance against his native Norway's Nazi occupiers, Lorentzen has made development one of his top priorities. And he...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
used over several classes. The entire series, including its video products, was designed to be modular. The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
participation and leadership, nurturing, and tending." Kay Wallace points to "night-and-day" differences that coexist at ACOG. "At one level," she says, "you have proven management types with fifteen years of professional experience. On another, you have View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers, a more-than-ample water supply,...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Indian immigrant family, as he develops an entrepreneurial career, participates in the Indian diaspora, and builds a family life. It provides background on Paresh's heritage, describes his youth and education (including HBS), his learning...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
overhang from his youth that we were talking about earlier. A: In my opinion. I'm not trying to be amateur psychiatrist. If you just read about his early life, it slaps you in the face. I don't believe this point's been made elsewhere....
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