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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
Education’s new anchor building, was officially opened in a June ceremony that featured remarks from Governor Charlie Baker, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Dean Nitin Nohria, Harvard University President Drew Faust, and Elaine...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
which offers outstanding networking opportunities, he adds. The School’s ever-evolving support for entrepreneurship is anchored by three priorities, according to Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), director of the Rock Center: to catalyze...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
With 40,000 employees, Singapore-based Keppel Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of offshore oil rigs, both floating deep-water semisubmersibles that anchor to the seabed and "jack-up" rigs that stand on legs on the...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
industries have in common? When an industry faces a shock, it can attempt to compete directly with the new technology or retreat into a niche. However, some technologies are well suited for a third strategy, one that’s anchored on the...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
the Internet craze with Admart. “I just lost the prudence a businessman should have,” he confesses. “I wouldn’t have gone so deeply into it if the market hadn’t given us such crazy valuations. It was unreal.” Going forward, says Lai, “the Internet will be just an...
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- 26 Sep 2018
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Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Just south of Washington, DC, on the banks of the Potomac River, sits the Crow’s Nest, a rural 6,000-acre peninsula named for a three-masted schooner, The Crow, which anchored on its shores in the 1700s. Today, much of this land is...
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April White
- 01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
the time,” she recalls. “We were watching the coverage unfold before the second plane hit, but we didn’t fully understand what was going on.” CNBC anchor Mark Haines was on air at the time. “I heard Mark saying that from the size and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on the University's 2007 Biomedical Accelerator Fund (also...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
spent a lot of time on lately is removing amber-colored dried tape anchoring the corners of early 20th-century photos from the United Fruit Company archives. Seventy-five photo albums document decades of social and business history across...
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Roger thompson
- 19 Sep 2016
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Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
metres (80ft) down, the wreck is in perfect condition, with metal sheeting that reinforced the hull against sea ice clearly visible amid swaying kelp. A long, heavy rope line running through a hole in the ship’s deck suggests an anchor...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork
will be replaced by Klarman Hall, a state-of-the-art convening center expected to open in 2018. Anchoring the southern edge of the green next to Spangler, Klarman will provide enhanced space and increased capacity for academic conferences...
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- 08 Mar 2017
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Helping vets become resident landlords
program that his organization is promoting to veterans as a way of anchoring and investing in their communities. “HeroHomes is like a Zillow.com for military vets. We find and educate the vets; we get them to the website, which is part of...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
jewelry and furs to sweatshirts and school supplies,” quips the tall, affable, Charlestown, Massachusetts, native, who in 1991 left his job as general manager at Neiman Marcus in Texas to accept the challenge of “putting the Coop on track for the next one hundred...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Lighting the Way
to believe that all things are possible and that your assets can be key differentiators in a sea of overachievers,” she says. “Determine what anchors you and leverage what sets you apart, and then go boldly into your future with...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
by other energy- and water-saving measures, anchors the School’s application for Shad to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. HBS now has five LEED-certified buildings — Aldrich, Gallatin, Hamilton,...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
market “slack” and the absence of any significant increase in wage pressures, suggesting that inflation will remain well contained for the near term. The Fed spends a good deal of time watching inflation expectations data, as those seem to feed into and View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention; anchors analysis in the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
pineapple. Another optional day tour from Zanzibar was a snorkeling and deep-sea diving excursion. A 45-minute boat ride from our beachfront hotel led us to a spot where we anchored and swam or dove in a spectacular coral reef with...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
Historically, public equities have been the anchor to growth in most of my clients' portfolios. After three years in a row of negative public-equity returns, which hasn't happened since 1939, I have seen growing frustration and a movement...
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Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success
Idea Village, an anchor organization for the emerging entrepreneurial movement in New Orleans, Markowitz (MBA 2003) struggled to find a decent job there. With an HBS degree and a background in corporate finance, she seemed overqualified...
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