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- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
software company and build video games together.’” The Dreamfly’s mission is a return to a starting point for Mendhro, who was raised in rural Pakistan as the daughter of the village’s first physician, who founded the area’s first...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Capitalism.” Not a word was mentioned about the credit disaster facing our nation today. The article stresses the remarkable recent prosperity of capitalism, and points out some concerns. It does not speak to the abuses of the mortgage...
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- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
conference a year later, and started to build relationships in the genealogical world. Three years later, two colleagues with technical know-how implemented his idea for online Polish-Jewish records with a rudimentary search system. The turning View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork
exterior, and systems renovations are scheduled for completion in 2015, when the residence hall will reopen as Esteves Hall. Related Groundswells: A few historical turning points for the HBS campus See how alumni support has guided the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
accelerates recovery rates to such an extent that it creates a treadmill situation—we have to run very hard just to stay even with existing production levels." Information technology is also used to sift through geological data in the public domain. Fischer, who View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City
thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
back and forth until the one fellow gave the banana back. After that, in later case discussions, we referred to any laughable or wasted-time activities as “Banana Time,” which would get a laugh from the section. 1972F had a signature...
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- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
case studies she read at HBS, which is why she often refers to her role at B Lab simply as that of a “storyteller.” Her own story is filled with determination to find a path. Raised in Stratford, New Jersey, Coupounas was the youngest, by...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
says. To that end, Clean Line has committed to buying from suppliers located near the lines and to building converter stations, the pickup points for the energy, in order to create jobs locally. — SA Window on a Greener World SOLADIGM A...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
certain wariness of what one alum referred to as “the dreaded ‘R’ word.” “I look forward to being completely retired — after my funeral, maybe,” wrote one member of the Class of 1960 for his 40th Reunion profile. “Retirement is not on my...
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Personal Services
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
doors of NeuroLaunch. Since then, the company has worked with two “batches,” as accelerators refer to groups of clients, in sum 11 companies. Headquartered across town from Emory, near the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the heart of...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
decision in your life. That’s the point at which I started to think about how there needs to be more education about how to date well so that you make an informed, intelligent decision. Some of us have tried our hand at amateur...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
going to change momentum behind off-shoring.” Back to top She·sesh·un (noun) When female employment numbers were disproportionately affected in the early months of the pandemic, media were quick to run with a new term: shecession. To explain the phenomenon, researchers...
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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
hit me like a ton of bricks. It was a headline in the New York Times that said "Shareholder value was no longer everything, top CEOs say." That was the headline. It was 8/19/19. I refer to that day in the book as the day the shareholders...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
thousands of young professionals and hundreds of interviews with the world’s top business and nonprofit leaders (among them Virgin’s Richard Branson, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Third Point Advisors’ Daniel Loeb, and US Navy SEALs’...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
and see it differently. We refer to each other as “Yes” and “But.” If you come to us with an idea, I’m the optimist saying, “Yes, we can do that!” She’s the realist who’s saying, “Okay, but how are we going to do this?” With those...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
offerings? —Trevor O’Hoy (AMP 157, 1999) I refer to COVID as the passage to HBS's future. In just a few months, the School made transitions that would ordinarily have taken us years to realize. The hybrid classroom we developed—with the...
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