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- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
businesses develop products, expand into new markets, and create jobs. If we can be the port in the storm where people come when they need us most—that’s a really great place to work.” Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios “The Air Force paid for my...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
growth of female athletes in amateur sports, we found that sexual abuse of these young, female athletes by male coaches was quite widespread. It was an incredible series that changed the reporting laws in Washington State. PRACTICING JOURNALISM in a democracy is a...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
much about how to manage research or value it, especially when it has long time horizons. For science-based companies, more collaboration and openness, both within and outside the organization, are probably required of them than they’re used to. Different kinds of...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
industries, markets, and organizations.” This interest has also brought Applegate to Singapore, where she is studying PSA, formerly the Port of Singapore Authority. “PSA has launched a new business, Portnet.com, that licenses its...
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- 11 Jan 2016
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Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
became an online business, and seven to eight years later we’re the largest search engine for out-of-school enrichment for students in middle and high school. We have licensing agreements with national partners like Hobsons; we publish...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
thing again today. Selling the company to U.S. Robotics enabled us to bring the PalmPilot to market." In 1997, 3Com purchased U.S. Robotics, and a year later Dubinsky and Hawkins decided to get back into the world of start-ups. They launched Handspring, a handheld...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Start Me Up
struggle or fail because they lacked legal basics like founder agreements or proper vesting and licensing arrangements." Funding "VC funding gets all the publicity, but it's not right for every startup. There are different ways to finance...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver
the consumer.'" Odd as it sounds, the customer has not been a historical focus for the movie theater industry. As Ramsey points out, the business got going in the 1930s and 1940s, when it was typical for one print of a movie to be View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
guests, participants addressed both the positive and the negative factors that business encounters in a state best known by the nickname inscribed on its license plates: "Vacationland." "The whole discussion was predicated on a very...
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Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
free license plates—no small inducement when plates for internal combustion vehicles are awarded by lottery in cities like Shanghai and Beijing, and can fetch more than $14,000. But government largesse has its limits. China has already...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
that up to 2 million people will lose their homes. The good news is that more recent proposals to license mortgage brokers and to require more disclosure by credit rating agencies and investment bankers will reduce the likelihood that we...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant Power cofounder Ron Smith (MBA 1979) stands aside the East River in New York, where his company launched the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States. It’s a muggy July day in New York City, and Ron...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the French rhythm of long midday breaks...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
the goals of marketers and its employment of technology to facilitate using the Web as an advertising vehicle. In addition to acting as a sales representative for select Web site publishers and advertisers, the company licenses the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
to maintain their moral and literal licenses to operate in these countries — requires it. “Although it may increase their cost of doing business, businesses have nonetheless taken the lead here, and strong governance will emerge,” Rangan...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
consumers seeking high-quality, locally grown produce. An industrial hemp-growing project he undertook under license by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture failed in part because the fabric designer who had signed on to craft high-end...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
to sue. “Patent trolling” is the opportunistic use of a patent to extract licensing fees or settlements when no infringement has occurred. On average it takes 18 to 24 months and about $500,000 to $3 million for a patent holder to defend...
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April White
- 01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
We are in the process of working out a contract with two of our vendors of licensed commercial products that would also permit us to provide these services to alumni from our own platform for a fixed fee. Aside from technology, what else...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
a stuntman. He holds a seventh-degree black belt in karate and is a board-certified hypnotherapist, as well as a scuba instructor, special-effects pyrotechnics operator, licensed building contractor, and flight instructor for airplanes...
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- 16 May 2017
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Facing the Board
began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?...
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