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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
he recalls. Within months, Wyman exited the firm, but several years passed before he found his new calling, what he regards as the transformational outcome of his HBS experience. Building on their previous experiences in Rwanda, the...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
That’s it. That’s the secret.” Morriss is the executive founder of The Leadership Consortium; Frei, the consortium's co-founder, served as senior vice president of leadership and strategy at Uber. They draw from their work with companies...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentists. (Just under half of the clinics are in Delhi and its surroundings.) Singh plans to open 600 clinics by 2020, and then develop a strategy for another stage of rapid growth. “I have to show a path from 600 to 6,000 if I am to...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
healthcare is rationed, the retirement age is 75, and exit permits are required to leave the country. Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future from Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia. Vol. II. edited by Tony Teo (MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
miss their exit cues when the meal is over. Careful design of the bar area helps control all that. “As for my students,” Upton concludes, “they really get a kick out of the fact that, at a Benihana restaurant, the parts arrive, they...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
lawn, sell it, and walk away.’ As the housing bubble burst, those exit doors were closed,” he explained. “All of a sudden, we started to see record numbers of delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures. The question was, who bore that...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution By Joel Bines (MBA 1999) McGraw-Hill Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
goal and understand the requirements, pitfalls, and potential routes involved. Seek a support structure and inspiration. Identify other groundbreaking achievers and understand their habits and skills. Connect with optimistic people who believe in you and your goal....
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
economic. - Michael Porter "Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the social problems, but the more fundamental issues are often economic," notes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, a world-renowned strategy and...
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- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Applegate said. Steve Collens, CEO of MATTER, a health care startup incubator, and Kevin Willer, a partner at Chicago Ventures, agreed that entrepreneurial activity in Chicago really started to take off in 2010 and 2011, when a critical mass of companies that had made...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ready for my Nicotrol somewhere over Mount Rushmore; unfortunately, it's tucked away in my briefcase, which is jammed in the overhead compartment behind some clown's trombone case. I try to explain to the flight attendant that I really need to have that trombone tossed...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
couple of experiments should not be that much of a bandwidth killer. —Jacob Navon (MBA 1984) It’s critical to choose one and “own” it. Which one to choose is largely a function of the exit strategy. Owning one specific market will...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
misjudged the results of the presidential election. A media junkie as far back as his middle school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
proceeds into the new deal, the only investors asked to do so. After considering the time we already had been in it, and that it would be a cross-fund investment (touting to one fund what a great exit it was while telling another that it...
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