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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
what visibility they give you, and what challenges they give you. I've had the blessing of great bosses, one after the other. I believe that I owe a great deal of my success to my early bosses." CURRENT READING Just for Fun: The Story of...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
it could not raise equity capital, due, in part, to some accounting problems. Should El-Nazer bring this deal opportunity to the attention of TA's CEO, or should he do precisely what the CEO had told him two months earlier, "stop...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
Beringer's deal certainly provides Foster's with greater distribution clout. Foster's expects to use Beringer's strong position in the U.S. to enhance the sales of its Mildara Blass wines there. Furthermore, the company hopes to use its...
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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
to act and less inclined to adopt the latest management fads, and less ruthless in dealing with failure and underperformance. However, there are vast industry and firm differences. Q: For those HBS Working Knowledge readers who work in...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
such as, "How do we deal with family relying too much financially on the business, because family dependence can drain the very life out of the business if we give in to it too much?" "How do we develop the next generation...
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by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
streets of NYC. When we went to a senior center to recruit caregivers and no one wanted to speak with us, we discussed the failure, learned from it, and moved on. We realized that the highs and the lows that people talk about in start-ups are real and you just have to...
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Entrepreneurship
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
certainty for anyone admitted to a hospital, still involved a great deal of guess work and discomfort. We reached out to staff at a number of leading hospitals in Boston and learned that the problem is especially severe in neonatal...
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Negotiation - Course Catalog
requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus
Current Position: Director of Product Management, CarGurus Current Location: Cambridge, MA Describe your role at CarGurus.CarGurus is an automotive search engine, helping buyers (consumers) find great deals from top-rated dealers. I focus...
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Technology
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
no conflict, it would be like a doctor not having sick patients or a firefighter not having any fires to put out. So you deal with it. Player skills, competition, and coaching in the WNBA is getting better and better every year. Now women...
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Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
for the fishermen on the pirate ship? I have a great deal of sympathy for them. They don’t know any other way to make a living. And yet, if we let them have their way, the possibility of continuing to fish will disappear. What can be done...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
deal with fraud and debt. Working on payments is a critical function, and any bugs or badly-written code hits the bottom-line. I’m fortunate to work with some of the best engineers in Silicon Valley. When did you first become interested...
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- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
number of key aspects of the old deal offered by companies that simply aren’t as compelling to the rising generation born after 1981 as they were to their boomer parents: full-time work in a traditional office environment, gradual...
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by Joseph Fuller
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
business dealings of wealthy colonial merchant Thomas Hancock and his nephew John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, governor of Massachusetts, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Though the bulk of the...
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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online
AND DIGNITY OF OTHERS HONESTY AND INTEGRITY IN DEALING WITH ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PERSONAL BEHAVIOR HBS can and should be a living model of these values. To this end, community members have a personal...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
Award recipient Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976) says the think tank is already having an impact. “Despite the crisis being over, Greece faces new challenges: dealing with the consequences of climate change, restructuring higher education, and...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
will require a fundamental transformation from three decades of economic mismanagement and neglect and a Stalinist industrial structure. Even before the war, joblessness was high and public infrastructure was in a shambles. It is going to take time and a great View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all members of society stand as moral equals in relation to one another and that the state has a duty to recognize and protect that equal standing both in its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne