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- May 2024
- Supplement
gWorks (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by...
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Acquisition;
Small Business;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Business Education;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Talent and Talent Management;
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Information Infrastructure;
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Risk and Uncertainty;
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United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "gWorks (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-721, May 2024.
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
market. “Many summer internships were canceled,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of HBS’s Career & Professional Development (CPD). “Graduating students who already had job offers saw their start dates delayed,...
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- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
financial gains of diversity are not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to...
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All Industries
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk,...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors” “Our findings highlight that an important source of returns for fund managers in the stock market is not their superior skill or investment acumen,” the authors write. “Rather, some View Details
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
business background. 165 Participants from 76 colleges More on PEEK Jul 2015 Summer Venture in Management Designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, the Summer Venture in View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
life. There are only 24 hours in a day. So work to improve your time management skills every chance you get. List and prioritize what’s important to you in terms of family, career, and other parameters. Use...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
a culture in business that does not tolerate “nodders” and “yes men,” neither in management nor in the boardroom. We need a culture that is willing, when necessary, to ask awkward and embarrassing questions and that insists on believable...
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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
both equity and fixed income claims increased significantly because of country risk premium. In the 2014 World Competitiveness Yearbook Ranking, conducted by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Greek business...
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by George Serafeim
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
evidence that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who exhibit little skill in evaluating the firm itself, other firms within the firm's industry, or even other firms in general. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0%...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
reduce its net carbon footprint and gain knowledge to scale Shell’s new energy business. Being part of these endeavors that have such a positive impact on our planet has been extremely fulfilling and inspiring. 2. Sharpening financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
helped me develop a business intuition to make decisions with limited information and under time pressure. I am now more detail-oriented and I have become a better listener. Also, discussions in class have forced me to think faster and to articulate my ideas more...
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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom
designed to make virtual participants feel like they are in a real HBS classroom, thanks to a wall of life-sized screens, personal cameras for each screen, a team of off-camera engineers—and for this special session, a grand piano. An accomplished musician as well as a...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
college, Ma worked as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she first realized she had an interest in business. “I had this insatiable curiosity about HP’s customers and the company’s competition,” she recalls. “I also found...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
August 2018 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Arum Kang
As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and...
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- 08 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS
HBS is home to veterans of all branches of the US Military, as well as foreign militaries. Veterans bring a variety of unique and valuable skills to the HBS community and have many opportunities not only to connect with fellow veterans...
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Optimizing Product Line Architecture Marketing Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Dwight Angelini Real Estate Investing Finance Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Eva Ascarza Managing Customers for Growth Marketing Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Julia Austin Field Course: Startup...
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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
through its educational programs (including MBA, Doctoral, Executive Education, and HBX), as well as through Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) to students, academics, and managers around the world. Completing a self-sustaining cycle,...
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