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- 01 Mar 2014
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Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
Savingforcollege.com, which Cordero describes as "the Consumer Reports of 529 plans.") The plan is to capitalize on market share down the road: "There is a lot of value in processing millions of dollars of new assets," he remarks. "Our...
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- 07 Dec 2015
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Easing the Costs of Adoption
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned home from Russia in 1998 with their adopted daughter, Christina, they brought with them a desire to make the process easier for other families. They created Pathways for Little...
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- 13 May 2015
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6 Reasons Businesses Are Rejected for Small Business Loans
- 17 Oct 2016
- News
Book review: Managing in the Gray by Joseph Badaracco
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
marriage license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. As he constructed a family tree that stretched back to the early 18th century, Diamond also began to think about how the process could be improved. His own search...
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- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
time the Army had 6,000 tanks that were ready to retire. Retirement is an expensive proposition as weapons must go through an extensive demilitarizing process, and even the scrap metal wouldn’t yield enough value to offset the high cost...
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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
more commerce or more interest. But we think it works really well in the physical world, too. And so we knew that existing neoprene wetsuits were incredibly damaging to the environment. We knew it made sense to develop plant-based wetsuits, and we also knew that would...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs
rates of burnout among this population to triple. That kind of churn has had far-ranging, systemic effects and has been linked to everything from reduced quality of care to substantial costs for the system. Underlying that problem is the...
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- 20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
of upcoming on-campus alumni conferences, including a Generative AI conference in the spring. External Relations is also introducing a new tool for volunteer management, GiveCampus, that will increase transparency in the fundraising View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Remix
of naming names in the music industry are still playing out today, she says. But for all the costs associated with speaking her piece, the #MeToo movement inexorably altered the direction of Dixon’s life, right up to this moment where she...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva
Sri Lanka and held positions with the BBC, McKinsey, AT&T, and Dun & Bradstreet before founding Cognizant — originally a joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet — in 1994. “We help companies to cut their IT and business process View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
the country have different cost structures and regulatory requirements when it comes to waste reduction, diversion, and disposal,” he says. “It doesn’t make sense for us to build a $50 million recycling facility in a market where there’s...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
But while there's a danger of moving too fast, Morriss tells me, there's also a serious opportunity cost of moving without enough speed. Her new book, Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems,...
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