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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches for companies and their...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Americans, perpetuating intergenerational income inequality. Companies should reflect on what their role should be. There are numerous instances of local activism by companies, particularly those in the infrastructure business, addressing...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
toward its $100 million goal. The first round of grants, totaling $1 million, was awarded to 20 local and regional organizations, with a focus on addressing urgent racial justice or pandemic-related challenges. Inaugural recipients...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
is that the majority of local residents have come to share our objectives. How did you raise the money to build the cathedral? In 1995, my HBS education and corporate financial experience were central to persuading commercial lenders that...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
special. My competitive nature led me to contact a local dog club about showing her in competition, and one thing led to another. For about a year I went almost every weekend to a dog show with Anni and served as kennel help and doer of...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African...
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- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
when you're on a motorcycle traveling, especially through these small remote areas. So I became very enamored of riding into small remote areas on a motorcycle, experiencing the local cuisines, smelling the difference in the terrain as...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
households? The second level is the company and the industry. Here, we use a more “traditional” set of HBS cases that address a host of industries. What function does this firm perform? What are its economics? How can you deliver this function more efficiently? How can...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
advantage of this overlap between the need for better education and the instincts of a business community to fill that market need. Clark: Public education has declined, so I think there needs to be some new way of providing quality...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
of his week are devoted to fundraising, "it never feels like enough." Education and Outreach Education is a central element in any museum's mission statement. How each museum chooses to fulfill its educational duty in terms of its local...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
perspective. Many companies abroad have been very smart about importing the U.S. dot-com model — without all the hype — and are really looking at what works and what doesn’t. China knows it has a huge price advantage in terms of...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
there was a question about whether that would be a detriment - people might think that I was buying the election. The local newspaper took a poll and asked, "Are you offended by Herb Kohl spending his own money to run for office?"...
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Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
so. When Verdant began deploying prototype turbines in the East River nearly 20 years ago, for instance, the company’s actions raised immediate concerns among fishermen and federal regulators. And while the startup proved that its technology posed no threat to View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
fifth box? 3) Consider partnering with local humane societies. For example, offer a reduced-cost first package after an adoption—the goal being to associate the joy of bringing a pet home with your product. — Laura Viaches (MBA 2008)...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year. Multinationals have rushed to take...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates...
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