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- 01 Mar 2019
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From Das’s Desk
especially in those critical first few years after HBS. The course will cover a variety of topics, including: Career navigation. How to establish a path through the transitions and tradeoffs as they move toward their personal definition...
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- 26 Oct 2011
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On Top, Down Under
spectrum of companies. It certainly helped widen my view of business, and it was a great learning environment. It definitely took me out of my comfort zone.” Asked to elaborate on these comments, Fookes explained, “One of the key...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS
levies on pollution, which is by definition an indicator of waste and inefficiency. Gore, who has long argued that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming, said that solving the environmental crisis represents “the greatest...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson
nonfinancial rewards of teaching. When asked for highlights from the last year, he enthusiastically describes a session where he asked students how his class could be better. “In business, we'd call it participative management,” he notes. “My senior teaching colleagues...
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- 26 Jul 2016
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Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
locations and retailers to provide ‘real world’ ($) rewards to players.” Many alumni see possibilities and potential in other areas: “Augmented reality can definitely revolutionize e-commerce and mobile-friendly brand apps,” said Ameera...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
scope of his thinking: You can’t talk about success and strategy without also understanding purpose, they said. Gulati was skeptical. But he decided to explore it, and in conversations with leaders like Blackrock CEO Larry Fink and...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment along with the corporate bottom...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
about how venture capitalists fund companies, they usually do it in stages, giving a little money to start, waiting for it to percolate, and maybe doing a midcourse correction. For the public sector to do that, politicians have to accept that they may need to rethink...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
partnered with us. What do you mean by competitiveness? Porter: There’s widespread confusion about what competitiveness actually means, so our definition is a vital component of our work. When we talk about US competitiveness, we mean the...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Turning Point: Sparking Change
HBS. And I’ll never forget the day my marketing professor, Steve Starr, asked me to open the Acme Paint Company case. I was one of three Black students in my section and definitely wanted to be in the mix. I’m not a shy, shrinking violet,...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes
enhances business performance as well. "Community involvement can contribute to the definition and development of a company's organizational culture, which is an important determinant of corporate performance," he observes. "Volunteering...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
vendor agreement with a compelling business model, I suspect the superior path is the new opportunity. —J.W. Penland (MBA 1996) Definitely branch out beyond wellness, which is full of hype and competitors. Preferably go with a few apps...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998) arrived at McDonald’s in 2014 as vice president of strategy and insights, she asked her team about the most common requests...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
combined undergraduate/MBA classroom. "It was definitely a departure for both sides of the river," says Moss, the School's Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration, an eight-time recipient of the HBS Student...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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A Hollywood Backstory
What can I say—even at nine years old, it spoke to me about assuming control over one's life. Twenty-five years later, after HBS, strategy consulting, and brand management, I chucked it all and decided I was a writer. Thank you, Benjamin...
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- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
“The best part is definitely the autonomy. We are the masters of our own shoe-odor destiny, and it’s incredibly motivating to build something when you feel such ownership. The most challenging part is being OK with ‘good enough.’ There...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like LEGO, Cranium is not a product that...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
intention of getting divorced or having an unhappy family life. But because MBAs so often focus too narrowly on professional achievement, he admonished us to include success in family and community endeavors in our definition of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Vision: Sound Science
at HBS.” Simons saw entrepreneurship as “the best path to translate breakthrough research into something that can help people.” He launched Akouos (Greek, for “to listen”) with a realistic attitude about risk and a flexible definition of...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport...
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