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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
downtown. So being from Harvard Business School, I immediately jumped into his front seat and off we went. This turned out to be an extraordinary opportunity for me in a variety of ways. This individual was working in a large brokerage...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
put it: They pronounced it differently from Americans. Several hundred million people around the world speak English, and there are differences in pronunciation of a variety of words. I wonder what Wolfensohn’s erstwhile countrymen in...
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
case, “lost the initial ‘COVID-stress’ weight”). CEOs chose a variety of approaches—such as running, walking, yoga, “online Pilates,” or using newly bought “home gym equipment”—but almost all of them said they worked out regularly....
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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
to CEOC creditors. This case provides a good example of a variety of "defensive maneuvers" employed by companies and their private equity sponsors to protect a troubled investment. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain stores as well as “pineboards,”...
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- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
efficient for consumers and for GM. First, it would reduce the amount of time customers had to wait for their car to arrive. A car ordered online would take only 15 to 20 days to reach the customer compared to the usual 55 to 60. 79 Customers could also go through the...
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
and diverse alumni network with a wide array of professional and personal experiences. LIFE is a platform to unlock the potential of the alumni network by facilitating intergenerational learning. Throughout the course, you will engage with alumni in a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
After graduating Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1974 and earning his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1976, Bujalski had a successful business career as CEO of several health care services companies. His journey into spirituality has since led him to explore...
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Margie Kelley
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
will we be able to truly understand the policy we have and how we might improve it. Q: What are you working on now? A: To add evidence to my argument about people using a variety of criteria to judge tax policy, I am running surveys in...
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- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before the end of British colonial rule in 1960. Seizing business opportunities as he saw demand, Odutola moved between markets at every opportunity, creating...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
they face. We see this in many different places. The insight is that what you want to do is open up your problem to other people—not just to serendipity, but in some systematic way. What we don't know is whether some firms may be large enough by themselves to already...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
engineer has invented a breakthrough, but refuses to assign the intellectual property to the firm, despite having agreed to do so in his employment contract. Fogg must choose from a variety of options, including prosecution of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
alternatives. Expensing, I think, would actually liberate companies by enabling them to choose among a variety of compensation methods they've heretofore been ignoring because they involved expensing. The board must be wired into all...
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by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
Case Study and a Model," you tackle this widely held belief. Is it borne out by reality? What surprised you about the experience of STAR TV in Asia? Ghemawat: It is widely believed that globally standardized product varieties are...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for industrial parts and suppliers....
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
have adopted in the past and decide if these are still appropriate in today's world. And, if not (for a variety of reasons that we describe in the book), what new principles and methodologies should replace them? Q: Your book focuses on...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
focusing on the people who make those solutions both necessary and possible. To accomplish the mission of Climate Stories, BEI is grateful to be working with Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978). Adams has spent her career as a journalist, author, and convener. Over the next...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
means my team is involved in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from purchasing, engaging with food donors, delivery scheduling, product inspection, and assortment optimization.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work? “There...
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