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- 01 Jun 2016
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Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to buy a house until his father...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
Purchasing directly from producers instead of relying on a middleman lowers the cost of sourcing, for instance. Relying on its own fleet of trucks enables the company to pick up produce just before shipping, avoiding the cost and delay of...
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- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background and experience,’” he recalls. “When my mom called to say the...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2002
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Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
future. If terrorism continues in America, it will take longer for consumer confidence to come back and will delay the return to a robust economic cycle. In terms of what economic decisions ordinary citizens can make to support the...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundswells
1980–1995 tenure of Dean John H. McArthur—the Class of 1959 Chapel and Shad Hall—were actually elements delayed from the original master plan. Other McArthur-era projects, such as infrastructure improvements and the creation of a more...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care
creates delay and duplication. Individuals must own their record, and the health plan is the place to assist each subscriber by pulling all the parts of his or her record together. What do we do about 45 million uninsured people? We need...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (W.W. Norton & Co.) Americans live with congested roads, clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. Professor Kanter writes of individuals across the...
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- 14 Jul 2010
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The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
IGNIA and a VC firm. “Our ultimate goal is improving society. If it were just to make money, we’d do things like try to delay competition,” he says. “And if [improving society] is the ultimate goal, you need to create industries. And if...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
the military, I took those lessons with me to Bristol-Myers Squibb and then to HBS. We were in class when 9/11 happened. I was a reservist. A few weeks later I got a call saying I was being returned to active duty, and then my activation was View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers
but the delay between the onset of mental illness and treatment is typically 11 years. Those figures convinced the Verdis and the Swartzes to focus their nonprofit’s efforts on young people—among them, the 1 in 6 children under the age of...
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April White
- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
principles to help counteract this trait: seeking truth persistently, accepting personal responsibility, and delaying gratification (i.e., accepting present pain for future benefit). These ideas, he acknowledges, are stressed in nearly...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
is going to help us -- one of our four new divisions will work exclusively with small businesses. With the technology improvements that will soon be up and running, we'll be able to get to problems quickly before delays complicate things....
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,...
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Susan Young
- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
assets and support the development of fossil fuel–free infrastructure globally, especially in Africa, Latin America, and China. Even approaching the 12th hour, alumni participants seemed ready to address climate change now, versus debating the causes of View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
It delayed our timeline two weeks." A few tables away, Christopher Gilligan (HBS '00) was dressed in hospital scrubs, reeling in passersby to show them his new service, EKGStat.com. The brainchild of Gilligan, a surgical resident at...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
there are major benefits to working for an institution whose stakeholders are not shareholders. Bob Fri notes one such advantage when discussing the NMNH's opening of one of its newest exhibit halls. After several delays and despite a...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having...
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April White