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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight by View Details
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
primarily based on a narrow definition of 'good business,'" says Vasella. "If you can improve the way medicine is practiced, I believe you will also make money." With sales up 21 percent to $5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2003,...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Off Script
red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Linda Katz (both MBA 1994) considered thirty different companies before buying Molded Dimensions, Inc., a manufacturer of rubber and polyurethane products located outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since purchasing the company in April 2001, the Katzes have concentrated on...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that...
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Corporate Services
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96) Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87) A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) As in any business, the sports industry's mounting costs are eventually passed on to the consumer - at the stadium, via television, or through the View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
dropped out of college and joined a New York securities firm. He saw his sales and commissions rise after he decided to be less than forthcoming about potential drawbacks to the investment ideas he was pitching to customers. Over time,...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that electric cars constitute 2 percent of all car sales by 1998, the company, along with the rest of the auto industry, protested vigorously. "The role of government should be to provide incentives for...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
the cracks. But for the most part, the money is spent in a legitimate way. We are always trying to do a better job, but we still have the best, most effective, most efficient government in the world. What are your proudest...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Albert J. Dobron, Jr. by Marguerite Rigoglioso "Been there; done that." That's what first came to Al Dobron's mind when he thought about getting involved in student government at HBS. But by his second semester, the former student leader...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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The Meaning of Ramadi
Zone Sales Leader at Frito-Lay in Dallas, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Joker One, a memoir of his experience as a Marine Corps officer in Iraq in 2004.
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- 01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader
my generation. It’s not about passing more laws. We need to have new leadership of our companies and the boards that govern them. I describe the kind of person we ought to have as an authentic leader who is genuine and trustworthy. What...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
strike. Afterward, from most accounts, much of the momentum behind the protests at HBS dissipated. The Class of1971 settled down to a far more traditional second-year experience, with some notable departures: there was a heightened level of interest in the role of...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change
featuring Donald S. Beyer, U.S. Congressman from Virginia and Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force; Anne Kelly, (Harvard Kennedy School, 1996) VP of Government Relations, Ceres; Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006),...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the subculture of competitive gaming and its economic potential came fully into view—first in South Korea. The country’s well-developed internet infrastructure had birthed a vibrant gaming community, and with support from the government...
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