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Clayton Christensen and How Will You Measure Your Life?

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.22.2012

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Robert Teitelman

Clayton Christensen may be inspiring, but teaching folks how to value and measure their lives is a stretch.

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Entrepreneurship Program Offers Financial Aid To Female, Minority Startups

Posted 05.16.2012

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Despite their $1.1 trillion worth of buying power, African Americans are still largely underrepresented in the business sector when it comes to owners...

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Jonathan Schlefer's The Assumptions Economists Make

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.10.2012

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Robert Teitelman

This isn't heading to the bestseller lists -- but so what? Schlefer is waving a flashlight beam in a musty attic. As Alan Greenspan's public persona suggests, economics takes a perverse pride in obscurity and opacity.

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Space Means Business? Space: The Business Frontier at Harvard Business School

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.08.2012

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Zoe P. Strassfield

I'd never heard of a space conference for business majors before. How exactly would students in BU's School of Management or the equivalent elsewhere explore space?

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Is Harvard Business School Sexist?

Poets and Quants | Posted 05.01.2012

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The student newspaper at Harvard Business School reported today (April 30) that an off campus sexual assault on an unidentified MBA student is prompti...

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Fast Food and a Formidable Dream: How 10 Young Entrepreneurs Earned their Way to Harvard University

Jessica Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012

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Jessica Cohen

I find myself reflecting back on the whirlwind adventure that this current year of teaching NFTE has been. And to think, it all started with fast food and a formidable dream...

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Vive La France? Revolutions in Parenting

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.22.2012

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Sam Chaltain

Our well-intended quest for ever-higher achievement has bred a nation of helicopter parents and a generation of children with plenty of love and precious few limits.

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10 Countries With The Most Workplace Diversity

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.16.2012

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High school history books might call the United States the world's melting pot, but that characterization doesn't quite hold true in today's workplace...

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Is Business Support for Communities Waning?

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.09.2012

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Carol Pierson Holding

U.S. companies may have grown lackadaisical because consumers have stopped using their pocketbook power to influence corporate behavior. If all American consumers care about is price, why should companies focus on anything other than reducing production cost?

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Job Hunting Skills From the School of Hard Knocks

Don McNay | Posted 04.02.2012

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Don McNay

I could have skipped the 500 resumes if I had better understood the importance of networking. I get frustrated watching some people try to network. They get too aggressive, telling people they need a job rather than letting businesses know why they should be hired.

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Cities Getting Hit Hardest Since The Recession: Report

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.19.2012

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Official recovery or not, it turns out that cities around the world still have a long way to go to get back to where they were before the downturn. ...

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Political Gridlock, Poor Eduction Making U.S. Less Competitive: Survey

Reuters | Posted 03.19.2012

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* 71 percent say U.S. to be less competitive * Political gridlock, education, tax code key worries * Survey polled Harva...

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People Over-Value That 'Lousy Mug' They Made In College, Study Finds

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 11.26.2011

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Treating that cheap, self-assembled IKEA coffee table like it's a prized heirloom? You're not alone, according to a recent study from the Harvard Busi...

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The Business of Life

Sean McManus | Posted 10.16.2011

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Sean McManus

One of the world's leading business strategists, Clayton Christensen has devoted his life's work to understanding why great companies fail. Now he was being asked to explain why great people fail.

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Dri Dri Gelato: Italian Tradition Meets Quirky London Design

Crane.tv | Posted 09.22.2011

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Crane.tv

Crane.tv recently indulged in a visit to Dri Dri Gelato in Chelsea. Inspired by a small gelato shop in his native Italy, founder Adriano de Petrillo h...

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WATCH: Tyra Banks Sports Odd Eyewear, Talks About Living In Harvard Dorms

Posted 09.20.2011

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Tyra Banks is just like us. As a new Harvard student, the uber-supermodel said she was mandated to take shelter in a campus dorm with her classmate...

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Harvard Business School's New Class Will Have Highest-Ever Percentage Of Women

AP | Posted 08.26.2011

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(AP) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Early statistics are showing that this year's incoming MBA class at the Harvard Business School will have its greater percen...

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Bush-wacked Americans

Diane Francis | Posted 07.29.2011

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Diane Francis

To find most of the blame for America's unsustainable fiscal situation, one need go no further than George Bush's presidency. The Bush tax cuts of 2...

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A Society of Renters?

Vivian Weng | Posted 07.18.2011

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Vivian Weng

The joy that comes from receiving and unwrapping a beautiful new dress you 'discovered' online can never be replicated in a rental transaction. Just call me old fashioned, no pun intended.

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Why I'm Signing the MBA Oath

Daniel Koh | Posted 07.13.2011

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Daniel Koh

As public opinion of business leaders is near an all-time low, signing the MBA Oath sends a message that MBA graduates recognize the influence business has on society and are ready to shoulder the ethical responsibility that comes with that.

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Sadly, There's No MBA for Imagination

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah O'Leary

There are some indisputable facts in our glorious world. Men can't give birth. You can't cheat death. And you can't educate your way to creativity.

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The Top Med Schools In America

Posted 05.25.2011

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According to U.S. News and World Report, the hallowed halls of Harvard University hold the best medical school in the country. University of Penns...

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Best Places To Get Your MBA

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Stanford Graduate School of Business has nabbed the No. 1 spot in U.S. News and World Report's 2012 ranking of graduate business schools. The...

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Fashion's New Frontier

Vivian Weng | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vivian Weng

Fashion lovers, now having significantly more access to the industry and to each other, want to be an active part of the conversation, not just passive consumers.

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The C-Level Job for Everyone: Reducing Complexity

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ron Ashkenas

A 2010 study of over 1,500 chief executive officers by IBM's Institute for Business Value identified "the rapid escalation of complexity" as the number one challenge facing CEOs.

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