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- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS...
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- 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator
movements of history, sees an oncoming dark age that will last 30,000 years. To shorten that dark age, he will create a foundation and collect the knowledge of the empire. In Ender’s Game, besieged by aliens it can’t communicate with, the human View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
collect the knowledge of the empire. In Ender’s Game, besieged by aliens it can’t communicate with, the human race seeks its best minds to lead the way against this existential threat, using an online system to identify and train young...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller — gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and antibig business sentiment. I think such moments are part of something very important in the U.S. system. There is extraordinary freedom for business and...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche
company grew 70 percent last season and expects sales of about $7 million this year. “The ethos behind Faction is: Get out there. This isn’t about being the racer who wins the race by a hundredth of a second. It’s about getting up on the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
Lorraine, the smitten high schooler who wants to be his girlfriend, even though history requires that she become his mother.) Ultimately Marty’s most urgent race is against time: He must get to the town square before the village clock...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
contrast to the government-funded space race of the 20th century, the extent to which the ocean has been explored has been—like so much exploration in the 19th century—driven by the scientific and historical curiosities of individuals....
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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
this world,” she says. “There should be no monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.”...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
last year, faculty members have completed more than 70 cases with Black or African American protagonists or cases focused on matters of race in America, with an additional 50 underway. Faculty members also have completed more than 90...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these...
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- 04 Mar 2008
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HBS Blogs
1976D Jack Schultz, BoomtownUSA, http://boomtownusa.blogspot.com/ (on the trend to leave the urban rat race for small towns; archived since Oct. 2004) MBA 1976E Tom Frey, Frey vs. Frey. Conservative vs. Liberal, Religious vs. Secular,...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
assumptions about this demographic. Suddenly there is burgeoning interest in innovating for the oldest members of our society. Abby Miller Levy (MBA 2001), Meredith Oppenheim (MBA 2001), and Lissy Hu (MBA/MD 2014) are among the startup founders View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
scenario where one candidate wins the popular vote and is projected to take the electoral vote, but lawsuits in many states over mail-in ballots and congressional races mean the outcome is uncertain. Several problematic laws could then...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection
occasion of my own class's 25th, is the underlying, unspoken premise of these commentaries: Well, that's about it for us; our race is run. We've made our mark, and our money, climbed the ladder (or not), achieved our peak earning years,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
problems of success — not problems of failures.” Garrett M. Graff is editor-at-large at Washingtonian magazine. His first book, The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House, will be published in December by...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute
prepared for our special event. Dressed in black tie and tux and carrying a flaming paper torch, we raced to the chute, this time with bogus papers. There was, as always, the usual throng cheering our action. We deposited the papers and...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
correspondent and former White House correspondent, and Stewart, VP of Global Partnerships at Google, surveyed 4,000 cross-generational women across four races for the book. Among the contributors to the book are Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001,...
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