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- 02 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Cassidy Wald Wins Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society
expansion of understanding and support becomes fully integrated into the themes of leadership, workforce development, and creating meaningful change. “All of us will work with people whose lives are touched by disabilities—someone who is View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Bridges: Remembering the “Why”
create value for the other side." In the end, it’s not just about getting the deal you want but about helping the other side – your partner – sell it to their own constituents. So empathize. Be kind. See the world through gentler...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
intricate 3-D popup greeting cards. They’ve gotten some major media attention in the past few months, including making a deal on Shark Tank! 3.You’ll discover you can learn about entrepreneurship at business school I wish I’d known how...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
becoming increasingly aware that the viability of your business depends on dealing with climate change issues. But in the United States it can be politically risky for a CEO of a major company to take a public position on climate change...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
to 2 percent range. Should the price be 0.25 percent or 1 percent? Second, how would an active robo-advisor work with other market participants? Alpha could leapfrog traditional advisors and deal directly with consumers, work with...
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- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
with CEO, Tim Williamson, and Director of Product Management, Sara Thomas, (GSB ’09) to develop a strategy for supporting start-ups that have outgrown the early stages of their business and are dealing with challenges of scaling. We...
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Entrepreneurship
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
the real-estate business. One group deals mainly with variable costs, the other with fixed costs. Myth #6: Current market leaders can't fail. If they neglect the customer, Bezos said, they will. In addition, many business pioneers were...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
In Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life, Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan explore the gap that exists between Christian ideals and the realities of business life at a time when many are searching for guidance in...
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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
framework that has significant corporate applications as well. The concepts in this book are grounded in a historically significant case study on how the American President deals with foreign policy. We are highly critical of much...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
the order management cycle? Benson Shapiro: In the late 1970s, when I was teaching the Industrial Marketing course in the MBA program at Harvard, it began to become clear to me that to really manage many businesses, one needed to deal...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
took out ads in major newspapers during the hearings. The results of the court case are still undetermined, but in November 2000, Napster took a step toward legitimacy by arranging a deal with media giant Bertelsmann AG to develop a legal...
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Jerry Yang
money in 1995, Yang and Filo launched the search engine, Yahoo! By including advertising on their site (one of the first to do so) and by structuring deals with Netscape Navigator and others, Yahoo has been able to profitably grow...
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Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve worked to upgrade that relationship substantially. Black...
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Zach Clayton
companies and campaigns struggling to adapt to the new rules of politics online." A realistic approach to true business challenges As an entrepreneur, Zach faced struggles of his own. "I was doing twenty different things at once, View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
the CEO of the African Capital Alliance (ACA), a private equity firm based in Nigeria. ACA has spent more than a year arranging a $500 million consortium bid to acquire and recapitalize Union Bank, Nigeria's sixth largest bank. Several weeks before the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
"presumes two things about corporate life today: That enough corporate executives can be 'deep.' That it pays to be 'smart' in today's corporation." If the presumptions are not correct, as she implies, how do we deal with the...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how...
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Dennis Sheedy
After making a great deal of money in cattle raising, Sheedy entered the banking business as a vice president of Colorado National City Bank in 1886, a position that later gave him his connection to Globe Smelting. After helping the...
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Metals
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
system. They’re just not working. "We do a very poor job of teaching that in the United States—giving people a basic familiarity with digital technology." "The second is that a lot of the shortage of workers is coming in the form of digital natives who can View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
good for our side must be bad for them," and vice versa. This mindset calls off the search for wise tradeoffs that would benefit both sides. Although it has saved many at-risk species, the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) has fostered a great View Details
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