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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari I found myself frequently searching Google for things I read about in the book, which extended the time it took to read it, but I always view this as a great sign. Among the highlights for me: We all share...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap
ROLE MODELS: Baltimore principal Cindy Harcum says PELP's strength is helping participants consider the application of business models while understanding the unique challenges of their field. A grizzled Baltimore cabbie does a double take when an out-of-town visitor...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
branding is one priority. What else do you focus on? The company is built on product innovation. Rick Alden had the idea that launched Skullcandy while he was riding a chairlift. His phone rang, and because he had to take off his helmet...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
filled with news from enlisted men and officers serving in theaters around the world: letters sent in by parents from sons at sea; first-person and news accounts of harrowing escapes, rescues, and bravery; and reports about sailors View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
branding is one priority. What else do you focus on? The company is built on product innovation. Rick Alden had the idea that launched Skullcandy while he was riding a chairlift. His phone rang, and because he had to take off his helmet...
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- 09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Valley-- It was basically, a bunch of kids that had a shared interest in emerging technology that really, needed a lot of people to get together to shape it into something. And back in the-- I think-- it was the '70s through the mid '80s,...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
voter participation, and strengthening the pipeline of leaders entering political races. For Ballou-Aares, this mission is personal. Growing up with a single mom and limited resources, riding the subway back and forth to public school,...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
the onion” on financial statements. He would use his chalk on the blackboards, walls, doors, and floors, taking us on a fascinating trip to the last numbers of the case. We had no idea how we got there. But the rides in Professor Shank’s...
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- 28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
community has failed,” she said. “If we want to solve climate change, we can. It's completely plausible to change. We have the technology to fix this problem. Electric and autonomous vehicles and ride View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane is business development director...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Peter Harf, MBA 1974
cooking and washing for 14 people," he recalls. "She had tremendous energy. There was no money, but lots of love and happiness." As a boy, Harf shared a room with a great uncle, born in 1886, who instilled in him an avid interest in...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
“Many stocks considered ‘growth’ stocks share this same feature. But meme stocks layer onto this a very specific way that the gap develops, through a frenzy of usually social media–driven fervor.” “These stocks are likely to fall in...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
better place to ride things out than the town of Warren Buffet." Keen started a consulting firm, Talon Strategy; he also joined the faculty at Creighton, teaching strategy and entrepreneurship. He was ready to move on from his experiences...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find meaning in...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
individuals to relationship-based businesses. Learning Objectives While each of the many courses in the Entrepreneurial Management unit addresses different functions within the field, all of them share four learning objectives:...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
than $50,000. Prieto would share conducting duties that night with the previous music director. “Carlos had the absolute right to walk,” says Hugh Long, president of the LPO governing board. Prieto’s contract stipulated that if either...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
all his fault. Well, after several complaints from the customers, other staff members, I began to share with my father that I thought this manager was not doing his job. And one Friday afternoon I walked into my father's office with a...
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