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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
fountain, an actual fountain, not a water fountain. So I had no idea that the thing you drank water out of was called a water fountain. And they all thought I was talking about the drinking fountain. And I had so many of those moments...
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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
immigrant, drink milk, stay in school, don't do drugs lifestyle. And I watched Miami Vice in the 1980s with everybody else on Friday nights. And everything that happened in downtown Miami was just Hollywood, as far as I was concerned. I...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
karate practice and that another friend had brought beer to the printers. Later he would provide a detailed account of Maj’s getaway. Janek had told his friends that the SB had captured him after he and Maj had run in opposite directions. “Now we know he was View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other organic food and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
decisions that would not have made been made on purely financial grounds. It's like P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program. When P&G could not make a commercial market out of water purification powder, it created a nonprofit...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
and they see it everywhere they go." He adds that "my favorite part of the case is the bar operation. Since people are seated in groups of eight, often with strangers, it sometimes helps to have them drink a little bit first—but...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
opened to what process flow is, and they see it everywhere they go.” He adds that “my favorite part of the case is the bar operation. Since people are seated in groups of eight, often with strangers, it sometimes helps to have them drink...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
that they make, for example, is believing that they’ll actually find satisfaction through money, power, and fame. Sooner or later, they become a success addict. If you’re an alcoholic, you can’t actually drink so much alcohol that you’re...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
Social 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...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
change can level the playing field. Social 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,...
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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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- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
big word!), yesterday she soaked her shirt while drinking water and we talked through the concept of wet. Today we sat on the balcony and watched the rain and she said wet! These little moments that I get to share with her bring...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
aerialists. You will see a flaming piano being thrown by a trebuchet. And if your mind is closed and it's different from what you expected, you'll miss out. If you open your mind and just drink from the firehose, you will find that you'll...
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- 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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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Case 706-447 Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges in 2006 include boosting flagging carbonated soft drink (CSD) sales and finding new revenue streams....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
for a customer check-in. His days at HBS began at 7 a.m. and ended at 1 or 2 a.m., always with the next day’s cases and a French-English dictionary at his side. A classmate from Red Bull shared plenty of the company’s energy drink to keep...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Hamermesh, Mona Sinha, and Elizabeth VrolykHarvard Business School Case 812-020 Healthpoint Services sought to address rural India's shortage of quality and affordable healthcare with a multi-service platform that comprised telemedical health clinics called...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Girlfriends started back in 1965 by two ladies, two African American ladies, that lived in the Bronx in New York. They would visit each other’s house, drinking coffee and all. And then they just decided, well, let’s invite someone else....
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