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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
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
- 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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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
began operation as a school without walls. Nine "at-risk" high school students - some of whom had been referred by theirschool guidance counselors, others who found Shackleton on their own - set forth in two specially equipped vans on a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
improved infrastructure for water and for jobs, notes Meyer. There is much at stake for Mbeki - only the second black president of South Africa - as he follows in the footsteps of Mandela. Meyer is careful to point out, however, that...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
hopefully, profitable) local player. But if you want to grow the business, I would suggest you expand to California. The market is five times larger. Do you believe that translates to a $10M region? Your company clearly has great View Details
- 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 Dec 2015
- News
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 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 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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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
about the candidates themselves? Morris applies an executive recruiter’s approach to fifteen presidential prospects from 1789 to 1980, analyzing their résumés and references to determine their fitness for the job. Were they qualified? How...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as one of the key factors in...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
that bridges neurology care for Midtown, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods.” Questions raised by the assembled group make it clear that getting from the point of analysis to execution will take some serious work. “This can’t...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Stackpole Books On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
that of Kentucky’s established breeding farms, some of which managed over forty stallions. Clay adopted a boutique approach to guarantee personal service for both the owners and their horses, and serve as a point of differentiation to...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
expatriate employees ride them. By comparison, through the Go-Jek app a user could now summon a ride in seconds just as a New Yorker could summon an Uber. Routes were traceable, fares were calculated transparently, and passengers could pay with cash—a big selling View Details