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- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits of the person advancing them?...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
century." And respondents seemed largely in agreement that Vicente Fox is well equipped to help foster a serious discussion of ways of dealing with the labor migration that will take place one way or another between the two...
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by James Heskett
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
writing a founders’ agreement. You’ll learn tactics for dealing with difficult situations, like firing an employee, pivoting your business model, or selling/closing the business. The course supplements case studies and discussions with...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the...
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- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
deal with financial matters, but later on the federal government and NASA administrators decided that managers should have total budget responsibility. "It was very important that I had gone to HBS, because I already had the skills, so...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
obtain patents of questionable merit that force other firms to pay a royalty, which in turn restricts the resources they have available for research. Similarly, some royalty demands are no better than extortion. For instance, someone has been issued a series of patents...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will invest in us." “If you lend to Argentina, you are View Details
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by Laura Alfaro
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
suited to a world in which leaders are immersed in a stream of possibilities, surprises, opportunities, and deals in the active, fluid markets that surround and pervade their organizations. Commitments require data, analysis, and...
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by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined...
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by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
to question, debate, and even oppose initiatives with which they disagree—and often do so. Corporate CEOs also tend to deal with their shareholders periodically and at a distance. True, they have to talk with analysts at least quarterly,...
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by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Are you reaching your customers? The key is knowing who they are and what they want To appeal to retail customers you need to understand what makes them tick. What better way to do that than by studying actual consumer behavior? A great View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
analyze, deal with changing assumptions, and defend my views in front of my peers in a graded environment. That’s how students see the case method. Faculty see the case as a source of education, innovation, and change. It’s the heart of...
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Margie Kelley
- Fast Answer
Angel investors
choose Investors & Buyers Click on Investor Types to expand menu and add Angel (Group), Angel (individual) or accelerator/incubator LSEG Workspace Click the Search Tools tab and select Private Equity/VC Select a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
flurry of movie projects, including a three-picture deal with director M. Night Shyamalan, the pair is becoming, through MRC, one of the largest suppliers of programming for television, according to Daily Variety (September 25, 2008)....
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- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
dealing with the personal concerns of employees? Will more attention have to be given to "community building?" Will, in fact, the war on terrorism prompt managers to engage in behaviors necessary for success in the war for...
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by James Heskett
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Konstantin Chebotar
says. "Their job is to ask the right questions to facilitate conversation. Fortunately, HBS does a great job attracting good people. They have experience in any industry you can imagine, and they're willing to share it. I learn a great View Details
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
didn’t even work—and sent him digging into the larger challenges posed by the pandemic. He soon discovered a gap he knew he could fill: While there was a good deal of clinical research underway, 85 percent of testing, drug, and vaccine...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
the places they used to be. In Brazil and India, for example, even though there may be a lot of poverty, there's a decently functioning democracy and enough wealth such that it's mostly being left to those countries to deal with their own...
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- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
demographic’s attention. “TV is where we have to be,” said Braterman. The Adam & Eve advertising agency, which represents Phones 4u, recently arranged large sponsorship deals with a number of youth market shows, including ITV’s “Harry...
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Mira Mehta
conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I didn't have that experience at any other school I applied to -...
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