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- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
the same role for presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison that Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from St. Croix, had filled for George Washington. As secretary of the treasury from 1801 to 1813, Gallatin dominated public financial...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
party in Boston that raised more than $2,000 for the Irish Hospice Foundation, a nonprofit based in Dublin that supports the development of hospice care. It’s part of an active off-campus life, which is dominated by her love of sports. In...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
technology that offers personalized instruction, is what I hope will come out of this. Do you see online learning dominating the education sector 10 to 20 years from now, or will there be a more blended approach given that socialization...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
testing a number of hypotheses around how best to build opportunities there,” says Breyer. Looking ahead, HBS professor Josh Lerner predicts that a small number of global firms soon will dominate the venture-capital industry, while niche...
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- 09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self
beginning to break my heart was that more and more behind closed doors and in private, folks were telling me that while they had all the external markers of success, they actually did not feel it on the inside. And then in fact more of their own private inner world was...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men
finance, when more attention should be paid to getting out in the field to find out what’s really going on and why. If teaching becomes largely quantitative and the computer is the dominant resource, case writing and field research become...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
small percent more is being built brand new). Moreover, the world’s dominant habitation pattern still consists of poor people in emerging nations flocking to urban areas to seek work. Typically, these migrants end up in illegal and...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
you do live and die by your taste.” With even the best actors, script, director, and production values in place, generally most movies don’t break even. According to Dominic Ianno (MBA 1995), a former studio executive at Artisan...
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- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several years, there has been a View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
next generation must be formally groomed to ensure we remain globally competitive.” As a group, the Chirchirillos have attended the weeklong HBS Executive Education offering Families in Business. Daughter Trisha (OPM 36, 2007) and son Anthony View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than American compliance cars....
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
strategy? Is it forthright? Do you have people who dominate and want to talk nonstop? There were a few of those, by the way. But I was so lucky that I found maybe the right boards, just superb teams. It’s tough work by the way, but you...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
support them. That kind of uncertainty poses a challenge for investors and tech companies alike, as whoever first develops a winning solution is likely to dominate the market—and everyone else will struggle to keep up. “Venture...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
functioning — or not functioning — outside one’s country. Those differences spark insights. Every organization has its own particular needs and patient population, emphasizes Richard Bohmer. As a result, a dominant model of organizational...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities today. Yet, in historical terms, America’s preeminence is...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
approaches to solve technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation counters the dominant paradigm, which casts firms’ profit-seeking incentives as the main driver of technical change. This volume provides a...
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