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- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
just hope that things develop as well as everybody's projecting them to. Otherwise, the valuation adjustment could be quite harsh. Is there anything that you've missed out on because of the demands of your career? When you're fully...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the...
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- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
adjustment if you need to. Julia Issembert class of 2012. Be honest. Be a good partner. People like doing business with people that they like and respect. So I always act as such. Skip Vonckx, MBA, 1962. Never believe that the business...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
between homeownership rates among Black and white people, with white people owning more than 85 percent of household wealth and Black people owning less than 5 percent. Nonetheless, says Abdelal, Baltimore has an unusually troubled...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a respite from city life. Along the...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
good to get short-term interest rates up to at least 2 or 3 percent? There seems to be too much cheap money flowing around now, and unused funds earn nothing at this point (in fact slightly negative, View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a mobile app] to customers to...
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- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
Illustration by Daniel Bejar The Chinese economy seems to have finally hit the brakes. Thanks to stalling real estate and export markets, this year China reported first and second quarter growth rates of 7 percent—its lowest numbers in...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Shop Talk, Different Avenues
launched in Japan in 2009, and last November we started shipping from the United States to over 90 different countries. MT: So your site translates into the local currency? AM: Yes. There are also duties, taxes, and a flat rate for...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
for those whose adjustable rates have skyrocketed? These are small steps in the right direction, but they do not address the problems of those whose impaired credit is keeping them from refinancing or...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
adjustments should she make to lead remotely, and what tweaks (if any) should be made to her Miami-based management team? The case details the numerous challenges Swan initially faced in launching Nickelodeon Latin America, from winning...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
this is where I think maybe the campaign was measuring it. Within that same time period, there was an announcement that Obamacare rates were going to go through the roof. And the way you'd remember this is, remember he was screaming...
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