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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
In the first wave of globalization, MNEs sought access to resources, and governments frequently gave them exclusive contracts and favorable deals in order to build businesses. The major management challenge was to overcome logistical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
victory for organized labor in a context where New Deal era legislation—most notably the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—created a labor friendly environment in the short run, with possibly adverse consequences for the performance of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those internal pressures are real. Dealing with them should be one of the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
at IBM? What can be done to maximize your group's productivity? What should IBM be doing to maximize the pursuit of business opportunities, based on the purchasing decisions of the customers you deal with? What should IBM be doing to help...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
were misdirected illusions of ways to become rich. It would take Gallatin well over a decade to realize that his gifts lay not in dealing with land and agriculture, but rather in managing money and other financial instruments—liquid...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
deeply that this School is experienced by some as not providing a level playing field. How we address that is a vexing and complex matter. All over the world, businesses are learning to deal with a more diverse workforce. If Harvard...
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Roger Thompson
- 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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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 312-065 Finalizing a Deal Between Riva Corporation and Charlton Corporation: The Riva Team Perspective No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
equity fund. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406009 USG Corp. (A) Harvard Business School Case 807-090 Deals with CEO Bill Foote's decision of how to deal...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
ran the gamut of roaring success to absolute failure. Why is there such a large range in outcomes for firms that used daily deal sites such as Groupon? This case examines the effectiveness of online daily View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
UK fintech doubled between 2016 and 2017, reaching an all-time high of $1.6 billion. CB Insights reports that 3 out of the top 10 global fintech deals in 2017 involved Chinese companies, while the 5 largest investor-backed fintech IPOs...
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