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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
as "symbiotic," Cheng noted that Hong KongÐbased investments in mainland China total US$80 billion (over 50 percent of foreign investment in China), that Chinese leaders "have quite well-developed commercial instincts" and are keen to...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock
on people. After all, according to Bill Elfers, one of the firm's founding partners, "The principal reason for accomplishment is dedicated and competent management." Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Howard E. Cox, Jr., MBA...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
one an overland trip across four African countries that culminated in volunteer work at a university in Mauritius. These were two totally different experiences, but with the same impact: They gave DiDonna some real separation from his...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
where she belonged. "The women I met were bright, interesting, and totally honest about their experiences. The event was so well-organized and empowering that I decided to devote my free energy to the WSA after entering the MBA Program,"...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
rocket fly more than 62 miles up in the sky on November 23, deliver a vehicle into suborbital space, and return to Earth intact on a landing pad a few miles away. The experience was visceral: A sonic boom when the rocket entered the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
being helpful," Walker notes. "We work with the total community, because we firmly believe that there are many important adaptation skills that students can learn here. We also believe," she adds, "that it's equally important for the...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
World War II saw a massive invasion of America's own shores, with wave upon wave of returning veterans - along with their civilian countrymen - eagerly anticipating the fruits of peace and the comforts of "the good life," including...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation that didn’t add up. Viana View Details
- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
women total on Fortune 500 boards. And diversity wasn’t particularly thought to be an important or desirable thing, even for a company whose business was focused on women. I mean, a good example would be Avon, which sold beauty products...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg’s team suffers total defeat when their glowing blue nexus is shattered. “OK, now I’m going to read out some subs and resubs,” he says, without missing a beat. Each of the nonsensical screen names he reads is that of a viewer who has...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
abroad, it will return to the United States, where Smith envisions installing an underwater turbine farm in a larger venue such as Long Island Sound. A deployment of that size would power not hundreds but thousands of households—the kind...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
today are searching for a deeper meaning for business leadership than just creating shareholder value, says Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman. “It’s hard to think of yourself as a business leader anymore without thinking...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
schools open but encouraged parents to pick up their kids if they wanted to." (For his part, Lhota had been able to confirm by phone that his wife and two children were safe, while leaving messages that he was, too.) Some sixteen hours later, Lhota View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
rationale as to why this union-backed legislation is needed and why it is good for employees. Alas, he didn’t. In my 20s and 30s, I directly supervised a total of several thousand hourly workers in at least a dozen departments in both New...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital’s advertising consists of word of mouth, and Shouldice’s popularity is such that former patients (“alumni”) return by the hundreds for reunions. The hospital...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
didn’t pay off. But generally, the New Bedford whaling industry of the 1800s thrived using this investment model, averaging over 14 percent annual returns, says Alex. Holding up the high end of that average was the firm Gideon Allen and Sons, which regularly made View Details