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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
(Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise). At Commencement the following day, the clouds remained but no umbrellas were needed as 907 students from more than seventy countries received MBAs, and 4 earned DBAs. In conjunction with...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
away. However, this new economy offers the best opportunities for high-wage jobs, upward mobility, and wealth creation. There's never been a better time than now to start a new venture. HBSB: Are there any clouds on the horizon? Doerr:...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
project to livestream city council meetings on Facebook Live. His collaborations also included a partnership with the cloud file-storage company Box to archive videos of city council meetings, and a registry designed with IBM to monitor...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
on September 14, when the campus community came together for a noontime memorial service honoring those lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Under gray skies, a steady rain fell on students, faculty, and staff members who stood...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
that their age had disqualified them for positions already. While acknowledging the existence of stereotypes that portray older managers as less creative, energetic, or knowledgeable than younger job candidates, Pam Lassiter, principal of Boston-based Lassiter...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
many others go on to distinguished careers in financial services. Williams retired in 1986. When the Class of 1939 graduated from HBS, business and employment were still in a slump, salaries were at Depression levels, and war clouds were...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is...
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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning government agencies into customers has also helped INRIX...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
States Naval Reserve and was promptly assigned to the OSS office in Cairo, Egypt. The OSS was an elite group. Only about 20,000 men and women worked for the intelligence service over the course of the war—out of 16 million who served in a...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
cloud computing company Box. "In answering questions about my motivators, in taking a stand for my values, I grew roots that firmly planted me in a worldview and a leadership view. But I also grew wings—the confidence to go out into the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
determined to revive Serbia's economy and one day see his country join the European Union. Not so long ago, Djelic, as a partner at McKinsey in Paris, was enjoying what he terms “a charmed and privileged existence” in the French capital. But that idyllic life became...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
administration. Devoting the bulk of his remarks to the subject of leadership, Whitehead observed that different problems require different leadership styles. When things are going well — “when the wind is at your back” — a thoughtful, intellectual approach is...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
fiber-optics for landlines, and now seeks new ways that wireless networks could run everything, including cars and refrigerators. It has projects in development with GM’s OnStar and in cloud computing. In addition, Verizon CEO Lowell...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
LF. Depth 1-0-9er-2-8 meters,” Vescovo reported, about three-and-a-half hours after he slipped beneath the waves on the morning of April 28. Through the small windows of the submersible, he could see a cloud of tawny silt erupt as the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Prince. But when larger providers like Google or Microsoft began to use cloud services that could employ data from their millions of customers to help snuff out junk email, it made it hard to stay in the...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)