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- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
pending patent case involving VMware and Microsoft and integration challenges associated with EMC's decision to spend $3 billion to acquire two other software firms based in California. The case raises issues surrounding deal protection...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
must distinguish these two very different agendas, which present different organizational challenges. As I will develop more fully in my next book, best practice improvement is organizationally much easier to deal with than developing and...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
he said. “We're going to recognize what we did wrong and that we're dealing with an uncertain situation. And so, when we start to price it, we're going to err on the high side. So that leads to transition risk—the risk that we’re going to...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
experience it as if it were entirely new. And use their tremendous ability to deal with it. The Medici String Quartet learned to approach every piece extremely comfortably, confidently, competently, able to play the notes; but their...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
million well-off shoppers and 463 grocery stores in key U.S. markets. Whole Foods could absorb Amazon’s technology and process expertise to modernize and reduce its operating costs, which were among the highest in the industry. For grocery retailers and suppliers, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding....
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
there is an audible buzz—the sound of deals being made. Over coffee and fresh bread, someone with an idea and someone with the knowledge, money, or connection to turn that idea into a reality are hatching a View Details
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Susan Young
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
consumer inertia is a big deal in your market, it could be the case that you are not pricing appropriately,” MacKay says. “You may want to reduce prices to attract repeat customers down the line.” Companies often internalize consumer...
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- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
price you can. As you walk out of the shop, you can’t shake the feeling that you just got fleeced—forced to pay just slightly more than a local would pay. The fact is, you are probably right. No matter how vigilant you are, it’s hard to get a fair View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the...
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- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
social networks, ubiquitous communication, greater transparency, and rising and unmet expectations. It has made the practice of leadership more complex and demanding. This is happening at a time when individuals and organizations of all kinds spend a great View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Anthony Tan
trying to do and I don’t blame them,” Tan told the FT. Unlike many startups, Grab Taxi faced a raft of local issues, both logistical and political, that made his effort even more difficult. Dealing with unions, government...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
tuck it into the back of your mind the way you would anything unpleasant — otherwise you couldn’t deal with it.” Snyder recalls wanting to be a criminal lawyer from an early age; as a young girl growing up in Baltimore, she took notes on...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
cancer survivor, she says the determination, energy, and perseverance she showed in the workplace were crucial in her successful fight against the illness. "I decided from the beginning that I was going to be upfront about it—look my colleagues in the eye and tell them...
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- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
most entrepreneurs and leaders dealing with the stress of scaling their companies and balancing life’s demands. Therapists are medical professionals with extensive training who focus on an individual’s psychological, emotional, and...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
situation here, but rather a more subtle process change by some companies, especially those in volatile or fast-moving industries. What I see happening among partners I deal with is that they allocate strategically from the top (setting...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
proponents of such ideas have been advisers to both David Cameron in the U.K. (Richard Thaler) and Barack Obama in the US (Cass Sunstein). Behavioral economists advise regulators that, when in doubt, make sure that business is transparent and even educational in its...
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by James Heskett