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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
author of Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It (Simon & Schuster), published this month. Visit www.gbruceknecht.com. Photo courtesy of Bruce Knecht Meanwhile, the...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population is willing to have a woman as...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
admire Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire by creating and marketing hair products that she couldn’t find for herself.” On corruption: “When you read the press on Nigeria you assume that everybody is...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
The more immediate task at hand, however, is keeping TIBCO on top. "One of the biggest challenges is to make sure we continue to hire really good employees," says Ranadivé. "We have lots of millionaires around here — plenty of people who...
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- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
distribution, instead of a staggered release? By the time Fox Star Studios released Danny Boyle's megahit Slumdog Millionaire in India, several months after its US release, most people there had already seen pirated versions. To answer...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
“to run a little faster, jump a tad higher, and, like Ginger Rogers dancing with Fred Astaire, do it while wearing high heels and moving backwards.” — Deborah E. Blagg Just Enough by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson (John Wiley & Sons) “Who wants to be a View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
overnight successes of today's dot-com millionaires make him question his more methodical path to prosperity, Shafir answers, "Not really. They're making millions of dollars be-cause the market is crazy right now, but I'm not sure they're...
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Deborah Blagg
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he cowrote, the $3 billion...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
fairy tale. Today's featured record-breaker is often tomorrow's letdown. It's easy to feel stupid when you compare yourself to the celebrity successes. And we're not just talking about all those millionaires doing the perp walk—like...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
stages of realizing the full potential of e-books and e-readers. “Imagine a book with a video introduction by the author,” he says. “Or, if you were reading a novel set in contemporary Mumbai, maybe you could cut to a shot from a scene in Slumdog View Details