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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl deemed it “the most...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in empowering the fight for health...
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- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
book to be published next year. Bilmes cautions that the $92 billion figure is highly conservative for several reasons, above all because the team attributed zero value to households that failed to return the research survey (even though...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
many other countries, collective mediocrity is the desired outcome. Also, in America failure is acceptable. Learning from failure can be an important element of future success. These entrepreneurial values...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
any card, to save his men. Right now, we don’t see anything like that kind of imagination and thoughtful improvisation, rapid-fire experimentation, and pivoting from many of our national and state leaders. This is a huge failure because...
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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest...
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- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni...
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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
cofounded in 1998. He also advised a number of student teams competing in the HBS Business Plan Contest, an event he judged in previous years. “It made me feel good that three of the four finalists that year, including the winning team,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
his subsequent investigation of the conditions in East Harlem that led young people to be involved in drug-selling and criminal activity. Besides the trial itself, the book is the story of the failures in NYCHA housing projects, the...
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Margie Kelley
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
HBS Alumni Angels team hopes to replicate. “Of course we want to present another conference,” says Kovacs. “This one was really amazing. Can lightning strike twice?” The organizers worked steadily with HBS, Stanford and the conference...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's top five banks. Led by a View Details
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Susan Young
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
able to tune into all of these biases, the bias towards the rosy thinking, towards the over-confident side of when we are passionate about things, towards not looking at the potential pitfalls. Why is it that we all hear that there’s such a high rate of View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting...
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