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- 05 Apr 2016
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Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
a bridge, a launch pad and a new rite of passage. It’s the students who find the courage to step off the treadmill—replacing textbooks with experience and achievement with exploration—who are best prepared for life after high school. And...
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- 11 Apr 2017
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Keeping the Missions Under Control
of a requirements interpretation and making sure, again, that the astronauts are safe. But that provider is providing the service to NASA to get them from the launch pad to the International Space Station. So those roles have changed....
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play
her. In one instance, Carson suspected the woman in charge of payroll might turn out to be a separate problem from the case she’d been hired to investigate. “I watched her,” Carson says. “She never did any work.” And voila: The do-nothing employee in charge of payroll...
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- 14 Jul 2010
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The Concerts in the Chapel
of music and, on one occasion, dance. Given its concrete interior surfaces, the chapel space is quite reverberant, so foam padding on the walls was added, Rishi notes, at the suggestion of Yo-Yo Ma, the Harvard-educated cellist, to reduce...
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- 24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
social enterprise teams. The winner and runner-up in each category will receive $75,000 and $25,000 prizes respectively. The crowd favorite will receive $5,000. The annual alumni New Venture Competition serves as a launch pad for...
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- 25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission
But he is doing what makes him happiest: helping others onto the launch pad of life. "If I'm doing anything to change the world," he says, "it is using any power and influence I have to lift up other people."
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
and the pile, must transmit force while protecting the pile. The new Cumberland pad does this particularly well, and the company believes the product could become an important source of revenue. But how much should the company charge for...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
to do.” To that end, Bradley explains, he and editor-in-chief James Bennet will go on a “listening tour,” pen and legal pad at the ready, to jump-start the process of figuring out what that “something” might be. The destination is...
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- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni New Venture Competition, cohosted by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Alumni Relations, serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
trade organization, the Outdoor Industry Association. In 1999 GoLite introduced its first line of products. They consisted of Jardine designs to be used together: backpack, sleeping pad and bag, insulated clothing, tent, umbrella, and...
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- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
So the experience in a lot of ways was really great. I thought as far as a professional setback goes, I think at the time I was hoping it would be the launch pad to a very comprehensive marketing experience whereby I would get to make a...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
rocket fly more than 62 miles up in the sky on November 23, deliver a vehicle into suborbital space, and return to Earth intact on a landing pad a few miles away. The experience was visceral: A sonic boom when the rocket entered the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
operations in 2009, SHE, with a staff of 10 and aiming to reach 3,000 girls this year, has developed a franchise model to manufacture and distribute low-cost, eco-friendly menstrual pads by sourcing local, inexpensive raw materials (e.g.,...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
always-open Store 24 convenience stores. T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56) focused on perfecting the packaging elements that would make Sealed Air padded mailers as ubiquitous as the mail itself. Putting in place his environmentally friendly...
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