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- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, which deals in part with Sandberg’s coming to terms with the death of her husband David Goldberg in 2015. After her loss, the article notes, Sandberg felt “isolated” at...
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Ryann Noe
literature to management theory, it would be that each toes that line between discipline and imagination.” Although she learned a great deal during her time in the private sector, Ryann was grateful to re-enter the academic community....
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
economics overlap and highlighted the key implications this has for management and management education. When the afternoon was over, differences of opinion on the topics notwithstanding, participants agreed that they had learned a great View Details
- 18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
difficult to reestablish. Still, BCG’s Sirkin is sanguine about U.S. manufacturing. He advises executives considering a new factory in China to export goods to America to carefully consider total costs. “They’re increasingly likely to get a good wage View Details
Fair Competition
unions, and specialty producers. Retail pharmacists extended these occupational exemptions and pressured drug manufacturers to maintain minimum prices throughout the Depression. The article fits into a larger book-length project on American federalism and competition...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Faculty Research Online
globalization of medical services? Q&A with Professor Tarun Khanna. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. When Your Product Becomes a Commodity Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. Professor John Quelch offers tips for delaying the...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Painting, by the Numbers
Feigen sees art dealing as "a dying business. I don't know whether it'll still exist in fifty years." Meanwhile, if you'd like to pick up a conversation piece -- for example, Titian's Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (price tag:...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
U.S.-Soviet competition forced the Soviet Politburo to install a reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, rather than a hard-liner, Beschloss asserted. Then that same escalation caused Gorbachev to feel pressure “to make arms deals and improve...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50817 December 2016 Harvard Law Review Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
program also touches on the practices used by academic labs to sustain productivity, drills down into organizational models, and reviews methods to help executives deal with the questions of project prioritization. Managing For The Long...
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
customer base and needed the administrative and technical power of an established firm. In brokering the deal with Macy’s, the Becks were determined to remain part of the company. Marla serves as CEO and Barry as COO, and Bluemercury...
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Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
designing and selling new products. "Marketers have to understand that consumers have a lot to deal with when they bring a new technology into the home," she notes. "In this world of 'relationship marketing,' why can't marketers be the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
Carpenter (MBA '83) Deals For Sale FairMarket's Scott T. Randall (MBA '87) Booting Up inVestments' Barbara Thornton (MBA '95) Emerging Information Internet Securities' Gary G. Mueller (MBA '94)/a>
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- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
for children with cystic fibrosis that teaches them skills to deal with their daily treatment regimens. The pace is scrappy and the conversation engaging. Since launching in 2012, HH hackathons have been held in major cities around the...
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Jill Radsken
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
my long experience dealing with Soviet organizations, I knew that the way decisions were implemented and what actually happened depended more on the lowest echelon of the hierarchy than the top." In addition, Vlachoutsicos, in close...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
has also made the most of joint ventures, initially a 1993 deal that enabled Ford to manufacture and market the Escort in India. “We were then making open-top Jeeps and didn’t have a clue how to make a mass-market car,” he says. “Thanks...
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- 15 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Coming Out Calculus: A Reflection in Honor of National Coming Out Day
obvious. I’ve stopped holding a partner’s hand in public at night because I see those around looking a little too closely and looks can easily turn to violence. If it appears safe, the second question is—do I want to deal with the...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements sparked a great deal of backlash and...
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- 21 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits
that provides underrepresented minorities in finance with the resources and guidance needed to develop into industry leaders. As a Toigo Fellow, I was able to meet with top investment management firms before even stepping foot on campus. I am most excited to experience...
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