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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
unraveling comes about for strategic reasons. For example, the HBS recruiting office regularly has to deal with investment banks and others that would like to make offers that expire before other offers become available. Q: What...
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- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
MaterialsFurman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions Harvard Business School Case 905-066 Profiles a firm that was reacquired by two companies with different degrees of success. Highlights integration challenges present in acquisition View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
won't be able to do this job. Q: What was the toughest part of the job? A: It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest situations are dealing with real-life human problems...
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by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
that have seen at least two cyclical downturns and have developed tools to deal with crises. Europe is clearly a region with great potential for entrepreneurship and venture capital because there is a stable legal system. The two other...
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- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
Throughout her career journey thus far, she has learned a great deal about what is most important to her, the impact she wants to make on the world, and how to make it all happen by tapping into the HBS alumni network. From Neuroscientist...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
understood as a valuable learning experience. The second CEO, by contrast, described performing a great deal of emotional labor while attempting to keep the business in stasis—exhausting tasks with no clear milestones. No wonder he felt...
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- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
Recovery Act, one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signature New Deal programs that looked to create “partnership in planning” between government and organized private industry. A year later, however, it was struck down by the Supreme...
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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
investor and managerial costs. It affects job creation and innovation throughout society. Once a venture reaches a critical size, its complexity greatly increases. The original business model must deal with new market and organizational...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
monetize online access to content. Programming changes, new advertising strategies, and deals via online distribution platforms are presented as means to capture the value of online video consumption. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
significant patent suit with Amgen. The deal nonetheless provided access to one of the most successful integrated learning bases in the new technology.30 This same lack of technical capabilities on the part of American Home Products...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
resources available to the company—this includes attracting the best people who like to work for winners. Winners get better deals and are left alone by others who don't want to disrupt the winning. Losing is the exact opposite. The...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general management and negotiations classes gave me a toolkit to manage people and processes while executing deals and implementing value...
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
It’s up to you to help steer the businesses you will join to reach for solutions to society’s most challenging issues. Often our biggest sense of accomplishment comes not when we reach for ourselves, but when we reach out on behalf of others. I experience this most...
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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
deal sources, right? The people, the investment banks, the middle market investment banks who provide deals—and underlying all of that is two critical problems, right? One is there's just pervasive, unconscious bias. It's not intentional....
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
role is in recruiting that team: Great venture capitalists can identify and convince great managers to sign on. What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of your work? How do you deal with this challenge? Owades: People. In every...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
taken away and then given back,” he says, “you want to use it in the very best way you can.” Web Exclusive: Bob Massie - Finding His Place at HBS “I owe a great deal to the late Professor John Matthews,” Bob Massie says, as he retraces...
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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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