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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
"During the times of the Republic, the Romans had a very small government, which outsourced all kinds of economic activities. They even took bids for services such as tax collection and street construction. The companies that formed in the process had many elements...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
reception room, and a fountain of Bubble Wrap trails behind her. She’s working with the National Gallery to introduce more modernity to the office aesthetic, selecting a few contemporary paintings for the walls of Maximos Mansion. The...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Sep 2019
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Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes
Schwarzman pushing his storekeeper father to expand his business and successfully convincing Little Anthony and the Imperials to play at his high school. An early chapter that details his younger years is...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
portion of the book is devoted to the demand side, if you will, of history: to working and consuming and how Americans have spent their leisure. Toward the end of the book, I spend some time considering not only the exuberance and stimulation of View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
tastefully mounted and displayed on the first floor's north and south corridor walls. "We chose images from the 1850s to the early 1930s -- the so-called Second Industrial Revolution -- that characterized industries important to the...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
strategy," and he describes how companies such as Yelp and Zynga have done it. The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World edited by Sophus A Reinert and Pernille Røge (Palgrave Macmillan)...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
leadership. Why is ancient Rome a good lens for exploring modern leadership themes? ED: It’s a remote, dead society, yet larger than life, which makes it a very good way to explore huge issues like power, mortality, standards, and mercy....
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Dec 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Dan Sprinkles (MBA 1977) was 50 years old when a vision quest inspired him to leave the corporate world and embark on a role as a spiritual healer. “I’d always been hungry or starved for something that would create passion,” he says. After an View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
opium to their country in the early 1800s, ultimately triggering the end to Imperial China. They are intensely proud of their civilization and determined to preserve it, even as they have become leading...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved...
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- 16 Nov 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
providing the model for how to walk in the world in a way that provides meaning and sustainability. In the modern world, we look at elders as a drain on society, but here elderhood is seen as an invaluable asset. This mentoring program is...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan decided to produce just one copy of their album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin as a work of View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Brand New
contemporize them and make them resonate with people again?” Sundy’s answer? “We have to fall in love with our customers.” Since joining La-Z-Boy in early 2021, he has been on a listening tour, meeting consumers, furniture dealers, and...
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- 10 Jan 2013
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From Wall Street to Visual Art
wood, dressed with nautical ropes or chains, hung beneath window screens or on top of old bed springs. Her work has been acclaimed as a new voice in modern art inspired by Cubism and the Bauhaus, and her pieces appear in both private and...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
increase? —Rob Kautz (MBA 1987) Many argue that anonymity is one of the key disruptions Bitcoin introduces. I think anonymity is valuable only in the early days and for a specific group of people. If we want Bitcoin to become more...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study of the View Details
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April White