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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
a head in May 1970, when hundreds of students and some faculty members assembled on Baker Beach to decide whether or not to join with students across the country and engage in a symbolic strike to protest the shootings at Kent State. Dean...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2003
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Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of Saddam Hussein in a town in southern...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Executive Action
building will serve as a hub for Executive Education participants, allowing them to meet with one another, as well as faculty, guests, and students from the School's MBA and Doctoral Programs. "The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center is a symbol...
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- 08 May 2015
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Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
Managing symbolic and exclusive brands involves an inherent tradeoff. Managers seek to generate growth by extending the customer base to new segments and markets. Yet increased popularity can dilute the exclusivity of the brand in the...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
alley crevice. He remained motionless in the rain as the officers scoured the neighborhood with flashlights and, as dawn broke, with dogs. The Free Speech Memorial in Warsaw was unveiled on the 25th anniversary of the end of communism in Poland. “It’s a View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Just Super
Moments after the New England Patriots upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams 20-17 in Super Bowl XXXVI, Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA '65) thanked the team's fans "for helping us bring this championship home" and observed that "our team View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation
try, how can you hope to succeed? Provide closure. This idea is ripped straight from McGrath’s excellent 2011 Harvard Business Review article “Failing by Design”: “Have a symbolic event—a wake, a play, a memorial—to give people closure.”...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
aspirations. We serve as psychotherapists to neighborhoods.” Favorite LA building: Los Angeles City Hall. “In a city that is so diverse and dispersed, it’s the symbol of common ground that draws us together and gives tangible expression...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
has become the living, vibrant symbol of the firm.... It is global, without a doubt.” — HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser on the 40th anniversary of Nike’s logo. (Oregonian, June 15, 2011) “While Americans are bad at football (or...
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- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
Authentic Leadership Development. Reflection and recalibration are so important in leading a purposeful life and career. The book has been perched on my desk at work since graduation. For me, it is a symbol and a reminder to stay true to...
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- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education and awareness—among both women...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
will climb Mt. Fuji along with medical, research, and public-policy personnel in a venture sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. The climb has been organized to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research and to serve as a vivid View Details
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio
recently been the headquarters of a drug dealer known as “Tarzan.” It was a symbolic gesture, Rodríguez Larreta acknowledges, but an important one. “Our biggest obstacle was the lack of credibility. For years, [residents] have had...
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April White
- 15 Sep 2016
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Leading the Way
it’s a symbol of America around the world. “It’s a good time to leave. It’s the right time for the company that I leave. I will be doing things; some will be in the public sector—hospitals, universities—doing some teaching. I think you...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
seen as symbolic of Harvard’s openness to the local community as the University expands its presence on the Boston side of the Charles River. Completed after just 22 months of construction, this new HBS landmark was made possible by the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer
or government, influences people’s behavior,” Petersmeyer declares. “So the President would publicly and relentlessly assert that ‘Any definition of a successful life must include serving others.’ Each day we told a story — a symbolic...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
stark symbol of America’s forgotten poor, tonight it is lit with the iconic symbol of Mercedes-Benz, which purchased the stadium’s naming rights in 2011. Asked how the orchestra has been important for the...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi
dominated by the Sunnis. To some extent, the Shias had been sort of grudgingly accepting of it, as long as there was room for gradual improvement. In the last twenty years, this kind of accommodation was turned upside down by the brutality of Saddam’s regime and the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Maasai Village
afar, we had a vision of a simpler life. The village, set up so that outsiders would concentrate their disruptive inquiries to one area, seemed to be a symbol of their having sold out to commercialism. After the adolescent members of the...
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Hospitality
- 01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
particularly interested in branding, luxury marketing, symbolic consumption, consumer self-control, and fairness and ethics in marketing. A member of the faculty since 2007, she currently teaches the second-year MBA course Luxury...
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