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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
high-stakes situations. McCall’s thinking is not based on the idea that great leaders are born ready to go. Rather, their abilities are developed and shaped by experiences in life. A challenging job, a failure in leading a project, an...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
day were joined by another emotion - the determination of New Yorkers to see their city back on its feet again. In this metropolitan area that is home to more HBS graduates than any other, the School’s alumni have played a leading role in...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The View Details
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
greater incentive to participate and contribute. David and Jen’s other crucial decision was to cede control to MSK without condition and with only a rough blueprint for the next few years in place. The no-strings-attached arrangement...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
many ways, Wu Yajun is the personification of China’s newfound wealth. As one of Chongqing’s leading property developers, she is among the wealthiest women in China, worth over $9 billion — the living antithesis of those Scotsmen who made...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
500 free online courses in basic education and workplace skills—essentially a community college curriculum—that can lead to global training certificates and diplomas for its 2 million students around the world. (For example, ALISON offers...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
Gee, I wonder if any famous Harvard entrepreneurs started out this way. No Butts about it If there is such a thing as an entrepreneurial addiction, David H. de Weese (MBA '65) is hooked. The founder of or key strategist in several startups during the 1970s and 1980s...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart
to develop the customer, the relationship, and sales, the price piece will be one of many points, most of which they’re aligned on.” Research Associate Knebel points out that while Tom Muccio’s approach to Wal-Mart was pioneering for its time, many other companies have...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called agency theory, developed and promoted by View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
are transferable. Please let me talk to him. So he arranged the interview and I went and I, of course, I didn't get it. I wanted it so terribly and I remember so well at the end of the interview, a couple days later, one of the woman who...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
that needed professional management assistance. Five years later, I was promoted to company president and became a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. My lifelong friends in YPO helped me to buy and ultimately sell my company; View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
and chance encounters complemented the learning that went on in the classroom. “We focused endlessly” on how to design a building that fostered relationships, recalls Graham Wyatt, a lead architect on the project. To fully reflect campus...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
this book’s publication forced a reconsideration of the genre. As graduates from HBS, we often consider how we can quickly synthesize messy and complex business challenges into neatly arranged recommendations that can be scaled. But what...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
and Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, together with Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), executive director of the Europe Research Center, arranged visits to 11 companies across Bavaria. At firms such as...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off
What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more...
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- 02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) has had a legendary career in finance, including high-profile stints at E F Hutton and Lehman Brothers and 14 years View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
was on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq, in the office of General Joseph Medina to talk about his future. In addition to leading a multinational unit on everything from reconnaissance to route security, Rogers was serving as a general’s aide,...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
Welsh offers another take on the downside of part-time and flexible work arrangements in the corporate world. She has two children, took her maternity leave for each, and went back full-time to her job as a managing director at Bankers...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
achieved, he never ceased to believe that what had happened before could happen again. Reprinted from Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, by Richard S. Tedlow, by arrangement with Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc....
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