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- 24 Apr 2014
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Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward
opportunities and rapid decline. Lerner, author of The Architecture of Innovation (HBS Press, 2012), also found that corporate venture funds invested in start-up companies provide an alternative to in-house R&D departments—and the...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
project,” says Oakes, who brings experience in finance and development to the table, plus a degree in architecture and the ability to flowchart anything. “It takes figuring out where there might be opportunities, and then being willing to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to...
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- 30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
Netherlands in attendance. The name Voorlinden (literally “in front of the Linden”) has been associated with the surrounding landscape since the 16th century, but the museum’s architecture itself is decidedly modern. Walls consist of...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way to make his vision a reality. Studying architecture was a...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
buildings along the main thoroughfare of Washington Avenue. An art history major and specialist in architecture at Yale, DeWitt III seems to relish the challenge of managing long-term, complex building projects. “It’s been fun and...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
mansions and grandeur of a former era certainly made an indelible impression." His interest in architecture piqued, the young Jenrette discovered a natural talent for drawing elegant houses and for shaping canals, bridges, and whole...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
first time, our technology started to reach mere mortals," he says with a laugh. Today, with 50,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $20.8 billion in 1996, Intel - in addition to providing the architecture and brains of most of the...
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- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
several years as a consultant for Construction Specialties, a manufacturer of specialized architectural products. At the same time, his nephew Mark brought him on board as an investor and marketing consultant in several high-tech...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2006
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Green as Gold
At first glance, Hamilton Hall looks the same as it has since the student residence was constructed eighty years ago. The building, home to 72 MBA students, blends seamlessly into the classic Georgian architecture of the HBS campus and...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
black person I have ever held a conversation with.” TED LEWIS grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied architecture and sociology, Lewis joined the Peace Corps, working for two...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
Although empty and silent today, this bright new Olympic stadium - an architectural and cultural legacy of ancient Greece, plunked down in America's "New South" - will soon rock with the roar of 80,000 spectators as they cheer the world's...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
secrecy jurisdictions. To be sure, money derived from trafficking and violence-based enterprise is bloodier than ill-gotten, white-collar gains. But the global financial system’s shadow architecture provides the same haven for all illegal...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected
like Mattel, Baby Einstein, and Sesame Street, as well as up-and-coming indie authors that expose children to new cultures, characters, and stories. Caribu also builds its own content. For example, users can visit a museum together through virtual collections of art...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Coop's brand name, while a core Coop management group retained control of Internet and catalogue sales, Coop membership, and interactions with local universities. A $4 million renovation of the Harvard Square flagship store that uncovered the building's original 1925...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
centuries, not decades. The ten years that it took to conceive, plan, and build the East Building were well-spent, judging by the superb reception the I.M. Pei-designed structure has received, including its recent designation by View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
when Hennepin County got ready, we found an African American fellow who’s a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture to design the building. And he designed it. And many of his family members had been buried there....
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- 28 May 2019
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The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the...
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Nitin Nohria