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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden...
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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
constructive suggestions for how to teach about the BSC in MBA and executive programs. Accelerate! Author:John P. Kotter Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912015-PDF-ENG What's the Deal with LivingSocial? Michael I. Norton, Luc Wathieu, Betsy Page Sigman, and Marco BertiniHarvard Business School Case 512-065 Tim O'Shaughnessy, the 29-year-old...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
Kofi Annan in his description of dealing with Iraq: "You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done."3 Great negotiators make skilled use of explicit and implicit threats. They...
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by Michael Watkins
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
appropriately, were vividly brought to life this past spring, when Gaiter and Mueller attended the SPNM course as participants. "Here were people who were actually dealing with their challenges in the moment," says Sandra P. Wood,...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
residents and stay permanently. View Video With limited hope of resettlement on the horizon, many Rohingya have sunk deeper into despair. “You’re dealing with the trauma you experienced, with no distractions, no coping mechanism,” she...
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by Danielle Kost
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
loyal customer is a big deal for others as well. It's important for those among us who believe that employee and customer loyalty are important determinants of businesses' growth and profitability. It may mean a lot for us as consumers as...
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- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
attempts, until a change in government in 1984 resulted in a state proposal to pay off the owners and allocate the land to the squatters. Each owner was given the option of accepting the deal or suing to obtain higher compensation. By...
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by Julia Hanna
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
A: In two of the companies, there were no expats among top management and a great deal of sophistication about the best and latest in everything. In one of those, its development lab competes effectively on a world basis with similar...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,...
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- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
succeeding at its objective? A: To some extent, yes, and not just in physical infrastructure development, which in any case has been a strong point of the way in which China has developed. But it is forcing China to learn how to deal with...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
How to Create a Presence Without Being Present
of MBA resumes. Reach out to student clubs Not surprisingly, HBS MBAs assume a great deal of responsibility for their own outreach. You can meet them in the middle by building relationships with the HBS clubs relevant to your industry....
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Patrick Chun
by another two with Francisco Partners, a private-equity firm focused exclusively on technology. "It was four years of rigorous advisory and deal work, without a second to spare," says Patrick, "I realized at the end of it...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
against their best intentions, by the demands of the moment? Welch proposes a transformative solution to deal with this pressure and shares her own life-tested strategy to help people regain control of their choices and reclaim their...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on...
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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
deal with an Italian distributor.” While working at Disney, Dick and his best friend from HBS, John MacDonald (MBA ’90), took a sitcom writing class at UCLA’s extension school. “My girlfriend at the time—now my wife of 18 years—told me...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
percent of the proposals get NIH funding. A researcher receiving his or her first major NIH grant is over 40 years old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people for their lab, nurturing a...
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- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
course, there were practical obstacles to consider. As the founder of a small private equity firm, I was nervous about the impact on my career and the reaction of my partners, deal sources and investors. For my wife, it was even more...
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