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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
more oversight will be required in the future. Highlights of remarks made at the three sessions follow. AN ANXIOUS TIME: HBS faculty members Nicolas Retsinas, Clayton Rose, David Moss, and Robert Merton spoke about the financial crisis before an audience in Burden...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
micro-entrepreneurship. Framed within the context of entrepreneurship and a historical overview of the long-term sustainability of this business model, this book is intended for practitioners who want to better understand the breadth and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
law, but now he walks into the new building’s lobby. The carved marble door frame that was once the entryway to the censorship office is preserved here, another reminder of a not-that-long-ago time. For Maj, though, the Free Speech...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but cronyism has diminished, the principle of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
helped with your business career? The HBS approach to case studies and the analytical frame of mind that they teach are invaluable. My whole analytical framework came from Harvard. Now, what didn’t work very well for me was everything...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant’s turbines, for instance, sit on a massive steel frame that was custom-built in New Jersey; the entire assembly weighs 105 tons and had to be ferried into position on a barge before it could be lowered to the bottom of the East...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
plus. In terms of the modern framing of it, there’s a golden book that I love, by the author of the Black Swan. It’s called Antifragile. And if you think about the usual way that we go and deal with these setbacks in life, it’s fragile....
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin interviewed 30 deans and...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghanistan’s largest taxpayer and private employer. Starting any sort of company in Afghanistan in that time frame would have been a tall order, but a telecom operation posed a number of special challenges. “There was nothing there,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
history, is a framed copy of the front page of the August 8, 1992, San Francisco Examiner. On that particular day, the editors co-opted the signature home-run call — “Bye-Bye Baby!” — of the Giants’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Russ Hodges to...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
did. The assault went on for hours. Bradley took the list with him the next day on a flight to Los Angeles and found a way to frame what had just happened in a concept recalled from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
industry wouldn’t survive because a certain retailer was dominating the market. She felt somewhat uplifted as she joined the conversation and learned that the time frame being discussed was the 1970s and that the retailer was Sears.
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
frame and not sort of bickering over who took the dishes out of the dishwasher. JH: I love that. We all want to do our best, but inevitably we trip up here and there. What are some common mistakes you do see working parents make, and what...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
facility across the road. Noxious fumes emanated from a second-floor manufacturing business and drifted into iTrust’s third-floor offices, reached only by walking up a winding staircase, framed by walls with peeling paint and cobwebs....
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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
playing all manner of sports, Foster says the fog began to roll in when he started college. He went through cycles of denial, struggling to make peace with his situation. Eventually though, he began to ask the question of "why me" very differently: instead of using it...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
guessing where this might be going. “Let’s not.” Joe left the room briefly, and then returned with two long gray pillows off the couch in the TV room. He handed one to McArthur, who still had the oversized frame of the football player he...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had been struggling with how to View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
or life-support systems operating. In the living room, there is a small, framed photo of Gershanik in a helicopter, using a hand pump to squeeze air into a tiny bundle in his lap. “I had this baby in my arms, he weighed only 1.5 pounds,”...
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