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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
his penchant for carrying to class each day a handful of pencils, wrapped in elastics. On the last day of our course, our section gave him some “going away” gifts, one of which was a fine selection of elastic-wrapped writing implements. I...
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- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of the regular group purchasing scheme, KKH and Dr. Deiner of Essen University...
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Martha Lagace
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Lahey Lecturer on Education Lisa Lahey is co-director of Minds At Work, a coaching and consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. An...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
firm that partnered with San Luis Rassini when it was a state-owned steel company. Its evolution into a privately owned, global supplier of auto parts is symbolic of how deep Mexico’s transformation has been over the past twenty years....
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
was an exception. Selected from 3,000 applicants, I learned that there is always a way if you never give up. A lack of role models did not bother me. I love doing things my way without being bothered by precedent. After HBS, I worked in...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group, announced that the firm would be donating Rs 200 crore (~$27 million) to address the “on-the-ground challenges” resulting from the surge in coronavirus cases in India. As noted in the Business...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that also housed a hamburger stand. It was 100 square feet and featured a single copier, an offset press, film processing, and a small selection of stationery and school supplies. "I essentially had a concept that would work on any...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
companies have embraced work from home more enthusiastically than other sectors. What does it take to succeed as a remote-first organization? What skills do firms need to make it work? And is HR up for the task?Welcome to the Managing the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
younger worker, that gets you some more points. But it’s a very clear system that is outlining a point structure, and you have to get above a certain number of points in order to enter into a pool that the immigration system is going to be View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and Opportunity (CEO) at The Wharton School. She is also a visiting faculty fellow in the inaugural cohort of the Harvard Business School Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society and has been selected for the Thinkers50 Radar...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
can't be taught in a classroom, he contends. Mihnea Moldoveanu (DBA '97) of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management maintains that the MBA is in crisis "because it selects for and cultivates traits and skills [tied to...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
so that you can read it cover to cover or slice and dice it like a playlist. You can read it backwards. You can just read about Wall Street or consumption or the end of the social contract. You can make the book yours as you choose. View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
working for a U.S. government- funded venture-capital firm in Slovakia, Kubicova gained the necessary baseline work experience at home before joining McKinsey & Company in Prague and Cleveland. Kubicova now works in London as an associate...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Deep Purpose offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business...
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- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become...
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.