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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
competitive advantage"-and one of their core skills has to be quick and effective response when the travelers on one of their trips are exposed to flood, famine, pestilence, disease, earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorism, and other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
products, including SVAR, a spoken-English evaluation; Automata, a programming skills evaluator; a customer service test; and TESLA, a suite of products that assessed and provided certification for vocational skills. The company had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
grenade, which is a very unsophisticated weapon, in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountains, where you can't get around easily. And so to be in the right place at the right time with that kind of a weapon system, it just wasn't making...
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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models complement one another: MGM makes important capital investments in theaters tailored to CdS's shows that are located in the middle of MGM casinos; CdS acts as a magnet for traffic for an...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Your Way through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky (MBA 2009) Portfolio We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
even when the message is a positive and urgently needed one. “Every school is different,” Langford says diplomatically. “We don’t even use the word ‘curriculum.’ We say we have some resources available to them.” Over the past two years, 739 View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
nontraditional expansion strategy of entering the developed markets of Europe and the United States as a niche player before venturing into Middle Eastern and neighboring Asian markets. Looking ahead to the next decade, Haier CEO Zhang...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on HBS graduates decades after...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
classrooms without girls. I think the topic of girls in tech was interesting to me as the daughter of refugees, because I was blown away when I heard that you made $120,000 as a software programmer and that, in many ways, those jobs can be gateways into the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field...
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- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
in the middle of Silicon Valley, I believe it was the first case of community spread in the United States. It was that weekend of the first week of March, California Public Schools were going to shut down. And so, we started stress...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
members-only shopping site Gilt Groupe with classmate Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004). Now Girls Who Code students work as summer interns at the Gilt Groupe. The nonprofit has middle school and high school clubs in more than 20 states....
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April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
playground—if it is balanced then the two children on either end are just dangling. There is no energy. And when it is balanced each side is in the middle or average. I have no desire to be an average mom, average wife, or average CEO. I...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
differentiate "quality FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
than when you arrived. Ginger Graham (MBA 1986), former president and CEO, Amylin pharmaceuticals, Boulder, Colorado Approach your career as a life-building exercise: go where you can grow, treat everyone with respect, learn every day, and give back every chance you...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of very poor rural and urban women in India. It does so by translating traditional...
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Martha Lagace