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- 10 May 2020
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The Brilliant Success of Shackleton’s Failure
- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to medications, the vet recommended...
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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
heat shielding. But most importantly, they’ve accepted that failures are actually part of building a space program, which is something NASA sort of didn’t accept, even though they had some. Their big rocket launch recently had what they...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
team—and everything they owned was riding on Carter Racing having a successful season. But after their car had suffered engine failure in several of their last outings, BJ Carter has an hour to decide whether or not to risk their existing...
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- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
us to hire consultants who have little interest in self-aggrandizement," he wrote last year in the Harvard Business Review. "We must hire people who are team players, who get more pleasure from the group's success than their own...
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- 11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship
we were at 93 percent execution of dollars as an enterprise,” says Stuckey. “Then, in 2002, it was 91 percent. In 2003, for whatever reason, we tanked by 36 percent.” Execution rates had a brief respite before settling around 60 percent, where they remained until...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Escape from Alcatraz
Illustration by Noah MacMillan Illustration by Noah MacMillan The first challenge of Boda Borg is describing it. The Swedish company—headed by president and CEO David Spigner (MBA 1987) and imported to the United States by Chad Ellis (MBA 1998)—offers indoor...
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April White
- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
teams with a history of working well together. Teams of two or three cofounders who complement and respect each other generally result in greater success than companies founded by individuals or those with...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Launch Codes
Viewing failure as an existential crisis: “It’s the teams that look at failure as a learning opportunity and not as an endgame that succeed.” #4 Not knowing when to pivot: “If...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life
fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with great fanfare, only to be quickly dubbed a View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
could restore the data in a couple of hours. That solution didn’t satisfy the client, whose sales team would be idle until the system was fixed. That was the moment things shifted for Medina. Outreach had moved beyond the fledgling...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a beloved figure in the Boston...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Fabufestan Exposés-Book I by Ralph Hancox (PMD 26) (Fictive Press) The adventures of Gregor “Legs” Morowitz, on parole and virtually destitute, after he is offered his old job back at a Canadian boutique documentary and advertising company. The owners want him to head...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
a potential new hire. It’s not clear when filming will resume; in the meantime, Harden is keeping her focus on the fundamentals: building Hello Sunshine’s team and being a good steward of the startup’s resources and its mission. “We’re...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
occurrence of problems such as overfishing.) Organizationally, Bazerman asserts that the U.S. government is hampered by bureaucratic fiefdoms with too little regulatory flexibility and a lack of collaboration across units and agencies. And in the political realm,...
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