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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
injustice in the United States, the company recognized that its name—with associations with the Confederacy—was at odds with its goal of bringing people together. As Chugh explains in the edited excerpt below, the company solicited...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
odd to them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of writing a...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
built to accumulate smaller successes. “It’s really designed to tilt the odds in our favor a little bit, kind of like counting cards in blackjack,” Coats says. “If you play enough hands, you should win.”
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Francis Storrs
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
what a young woman did when her back was against the wall. And how she overcame obstacles and odds that were really stacked against her, to make a difference not just for her family, but for families around her neighborhood. You could get...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
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...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“Tentpole” productions (so named because they would “hold up” the smaller, less commercial movies made by studios) and the odd dark horse can still rake it in at the box office, but these days it’s less of a given that consumers will ante...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
who want to become valued and successful members of their organizations without selling out on their identities and their beliefs. These "tempered radicals" may have differences based on moral values, social perspectives, or racial, gender, or sexual identity that put...
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- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
leading Goldman Sachs's new, in-house environmental efforts. Three years later, he applied for the CEO position at the Washington, D.C.-based TNC. "At first, I was viewed as an odd candidate; but to the board's credit, they thought my...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
an MBA. It had to do with output to the client of a new computer system in New York City. The day after Columbus Day, no one was in the office, and I looked at the reports that had come out that were going to the client. And it looked odd...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
Amazon], for them to come up empty handed is a missed opportunity,” he says. And if you’re not on Amazon, odds are good that a competitor is. But brands are also wary of the site for the reasons Ford described, especially the fact that...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was,” she says. “Our goal is to raise $150 million and help fund 5,500 homes over the next five years.” In an odd twist, the real estate foreclosure crisis has made it possible for Habitat to serve more families. “The biggest barrier to...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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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 View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
here, where the odds are that even ideas that look really good will never make it. Who do you think learned more from the course, the MBAs or the scientists? Both. Learning happened in some unexpected ways. One of the students...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
trigger government regulators to tighten the screws on the private-equity industry? It’s inevitable that one deal will get in trouble, just purely from a statistical point of view. A lot of negative comments are being made from an odd...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
focus is on Ann Edwards, daughter of a prominent Kohler striker, and her custodianship of the memoirs of Elliott Goldberg , Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters' CPA. Martin Shapiro's 2039 (a futuristic novel) by Martin Shapiro (MBA 1966) Skipper, from the Prairies to the...
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- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd. View Details