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- 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
of the polar ice caps. Our world is squarely in a climate crisis and on the brink of a climate disaster. More than ever, we need a clear course of action. What if the goal-setting techniques that powered the rise of today’s most innovative View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
deputy minister and as the country’s chief World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiator. After three decades of communist central planning, “China’s economy was on the brink of bankruptcy,” he told a first-day plenary session. Hardship and...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to...
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
and American Industry in Europe (1960). His 1989 Harvard Business Review article "General Managers in the Middle" was a bestseller for many years. Beyond the Harvard Business School campus, Uyterhoeven consulted regarding international business, long-range planning,...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
in college." Kapoor puts his time-management skills to the test by playing a leadership role in a host of other HBS activities as well. Interested in the convergence of the various media, in 1995 he spearheaded the formation of an View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
investors said at the time,” Baer recounts, “ ‘The good news is we just bought the team. The bad news is we just bought the team. What the hell do we do with it?’ ” As a business, the Giants organization was losing around $15 million a...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
of very high highs, and very low lows. And my experience is really trying to balance both sides, and always constantly remember why I'm there. In terms of the highs the food is amazing, the culture is very vibrant. Lagos is probably the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
SpaceX vessels.) Of course, the Limiting Factor and the Pressure Drop would need to be maintained, and the ship needed a crew. Vescovo tapped EYOS Expeditions to organize the trips and handle permits and logistics. A film crew from...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the...
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- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time. Guests on her podcast wrote original essays for busy readers, which Zibby View Details