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- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
toughest decisions often are associated with situations in which strategic risk is high but in-house capability is low. Here Doherty suggests a strategic alliance with the purpose of upgrading in-house capability as at least one alternative. Those who have spent a...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
conventional restos by dealing strictly in virtual brands that rely on “ghost” or “cloud” kitchens, that is, standalone cooking facilities that lack physical dining spaces and serve customers exclusively through delivery apps. A single...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
interests, above our partisan interests—political conflict has often proved highly productive, and a great deal has been achieved. Today, we need to look hard at ourselves and our own political parties and make sure a strong and resilient...
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Deb Blagg
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
McKinsey and applied again. "I think what sealed the deal was that I was invited for an interview. I was working in Singapore at the time, so I flew to Cambridge. The initial question in any interview is always, 'How are you today?' I...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies and find that, in addition to...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of their people with marketplace opportunity. These CEOs spent a great deal of time crystallizing their values and purpose and how strategy could be defined in a way that integrated strategy with values. In this way the animating beliefs...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Publishing Platform This book offers guidance to baby-boomers in three main sections. “Finding Your Gifts” helps you appreciate the good things in your life, how to add to them, and make the best of your resources. “Digging the Challenges” contains guidance and...
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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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- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
load multiplied as soon as we started formulating” a plan to cope with the pandemic. He, along with Mark Tover, fears the added burnout associated with the job. This raises the questions of whether middle managers will experience increased burnout in the coming months...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
verify their gut with a more quantitative analysis. What type of investor are you? Neither approach is necessarily better, says Huang. Rather, both are investors’ ways of managing and rationalizing risk. Checklist investors deal with...
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- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
that it: (1) is time consuming. (2) requires of students a great deal of synthesis of many individual decision making situations to form generalizations. (3) is an imperfect way of teaching quantitative techniques. (4) is based on the...
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- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
a second publisher seeking to close the deal was "shadowing" Grand Central's every move and a preemptive offer of well over a million dollars would be required to secure the acquisition—an exceedingly high amount for a book by a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
startup’s vision or step back altogether after a larger company takes possession. In 144 of these transactions, the deal effectively closed a failing business. Another 2.9 percent of the companies examined, or 317 ventures, went public...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
customer-employee relations. "Our students find that they are better equipped to understand and deal with workers after they have held the worker's type of non-specialized job," Roberts explained. "The best way to appreciate the endurance...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
find out what the facts really are. You have to separate rock solid truth from the surrounding haze of assumption. That is what Jim Burke (MBA ’49), then-CEO of Johnson & Johnson, succeeded in doing when boxes of Tylenol products were mysteriously poisoned in 1982....
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- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
ever when deciding where to source their goods and invest. The countries that can offer the best deal in terms of infrastructure and government stability—not just low wages—will come out ahead, she added. Lessons From Nike As director of...
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by Julia Hanna
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
super-large organizations can maintain a sense of "family." In Wal-Mart's case, it involves such things as clear channels of communications, particularly electronic but also involving frequent store visits by senior executives who spend a great View Details
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by Manda Mahoney
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
on location. So GE is moving the mountain to Mohammed. There are a 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:...
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