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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
also helped lengthen and restore his tight, overworked muscles, and it became part of his workout regimen. During his time at YogaWorks, he is credited with boosting the company’s market position and launching its online platform, as well...
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
also be viewed online at Baker Library. As the manufacturing arm of AT&T, Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant, located outside Chicago in Cicero, Illinois, was known for the practice of “scientific management” (as espoused by...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office space, View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
to online, we saw that younger kids couldn’t do their schoolwork online without an adult supporting them at home. If mom is at work, younger students rely on older siblings to help them, which means that the older students are not...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
innovation in the MBA Program, such as the field method and HBX, the School's new online education platform. Intellectual Ambition—Pursuing cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration, generating important and relevant scholarly work focused...
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Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
us.” Bit by bit, Wilcox eked enough money out of the customer (using “charm, logic, bluster, you name it”) to keep the company going for six more months. Coming out of that moment, he also took steps that changed the company’s culture substantially by hiring new View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
and leading to segmentation of the notes in 1991. Thus, for the past eight years, three versions of the notes have been published and sent to the appropriate classes. Technology may soon come to the rescue, however. At present, alumni may read the Class Notes View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
infrastructure in the world. What are the implications for their ability to leapfrog content and technical developments in this sector in the United States? Internet development in China. Online marketing and consumer behavior in South...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
principals at the school level, so the challenge was to create the operations to match.” Kete has recently been chosen for the selective two-year “resident executive” program of the nonprofit Broad Foundation, whose goal is to attract...
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- 09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at...
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- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
at certain points in my career but only in hours, never in responsibilities. My advice is to always take the promotion or new job and then figure out how to make it work. Once you have the job, you can redefine it as needed. Women in particular often View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
online travel guide business, he joined the Internet search giant as director of product management. He was the driving force behind the February 2011 launch of Social Search, which incorporates content shared or created on social media...
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