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- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
University of Houston professor, and Shara Bumgarner, a Houston elementary school teacher. Melcher located some classroom space and then watched as her daughter began to acquire social and communication skills in the new environment....
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
location if you’re raising a young family. You might choose to live closer to your aging parents, or you might want to live in New York if you love theater,” he says. “WFA fundamentally solves many issues...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the social problems, but the more...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
country is not competitive. Competitiveness has to do with being a productive location in which to do business, which allows companies to succeed globally while also supporting good wages. One without the other is unsustainable. If...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation
and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the public that business is a force for good and is fundamental to societal progress by creating jobs,...
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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
of our manufacturing happens in China, so the basic manufacturing piece—assembling millions of parts at just the right time, building high-quality widgets, selecting the right colors, and so on—that’s one challenge. Then the product has to be shipped and distributed to...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
consumed outside of the home, we felt it was critical to continue to operate—our restaurants serve 4.3 million meals a day on average. With so many of our locations already set up for drive-in, drive-through, and takeout, about 97 percent...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
of our manufacturing happens in China, so the basic manufacturing piece—assembling millions of parts at just the right time, building high-quality widgets, selecting the right colors, and so on—that’s one challenge. Then the product has to be shipped and distributed to...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016, Karavites’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a world-class management team is now as...
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Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
energy. Verdant’s massive turbine system weighs 105 tons; installation required a barge ride from its New Jersey assembly location and a crane to lower it into the East River (Courtesy Verdant Power) If our laptops and lightbulbs do not...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
external. “The complaint was that we were violating people’s expectations of what the Atlantic was supposed to be,” he says. “But David insisted on discipline, a high degree of intellectual honesty, and staying true to the magazine’s View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
flagship location because of the pandemic, was able to reopen on May 16. She was one of six Black Dallas-Fort Worth entrepreneurs featured. “Go beyond your network to source talent,” she advised. “Make connections with historically Black...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
first location at Boston’s Logan Airport last December. “The fundamentals of the company have not really changed,” she says, adding that the contest gave her the courage to take the entrepreneurial leap....
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
patterns that could signify an attack or a system failure. A fundamental component of the theory is how the brain represents information differently than computers do. Data entered into a computer—whether numbers or words—need to be...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and...
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