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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
improvisational forms can help you shape your negotiations from the onset. Just as a piece of jazz springs from all the musicians in an ensemble, a negotiation evolves from interactions across the parties. No matter how much you prepare... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
employees, and society. "Don't lose hope. These courses helped change my career trajectory, and I hope they do wonders in your life as well. In the end, it'll be all worth it." Riya Dashoriya Engineering Manager at Quizlet at Infosys View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
metrics, Kaggwa is preparing for her monthly performance conversations with two under-performing sales people. This case concerns a metrics-driven sales organization, challenges the students to combine quantitative and qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Nalls Harvard Business School Case 808-167 Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career-his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Tony Lee is preparing to present a project to the investment committee of Howard Street Capital. He will be recommending an investment in Project Sun Devil, a high-quality 225-unit student housing rental property near Tempe, Arizona. Tony... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
store closures around the country. Supermarkets are moving to much smaller formats, much more prepared foods, and healthy foods, because they are getting hit by many competitive threats that make large stores unprofitable. And now this... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
Commencement 2011 Address Remarks as prepared by Nitin Nohria, 26 May 2011 The HBS class of 2011, friends and family, and members of the HBS community. Good afternoon, and welcome! I will always enjoy a special bond with the Class of... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
sales process, and some retailers did not understand why they should trust a small, young company with their payment security. By late 2017, Index had made some changes to reduce the average sales cycle, but there was still room for improvement. Now, Index was View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
call with his team. “I think the decision drove a tremendous amount of confidence,” he says. He saw many of his peers in the tech industry scrambling; Stack Overflow, in contrast, was inherently prepared for the transition. Lumry Family... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
decisions we make big and small impact our ability to serve our kids and prepare them for college. But the one thing that I had not been able to uncover was any evidence or research that shows that hair color impacts one’s ability to get... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
the loss of my father taught me perseverance, independence, and hard work,” he observes. “It prepared me for later challenges.” After a charismatic West Point recruiter visited his high school, Sundy applied for and received an... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
that relied heavily on debt? Would Warburg Pincus Ventures be prepared to pay a price sufficient to win the bidding contest? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207125 Dressen (Abridged) (B)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
people held true about the empire in the West,” Elkins says. Time was a factor, too. Teaching, writing, and preparing a tenure packet was keeping her pretty busy already. And so? Elkins agreed to be the expert witness in the case. “I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
tracks the origins of sweetriot from Sarah's formative early career experiences, to the company's launch and beyond as Sarah prepares future products, establishes production channels, and seeks future funding. Sarah was not content to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
health care), OTC drugs (in which its Advil and Anacin were best-sellers), nutritional products (in which its infant formula preparations ranked just behind those of Abbott and Bristol-Myers in market share), and hospital supply goods.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
“The most fun part of the HBS experience was participating in skydeck and professor roasts. I have to admit I probably spent way more time preparing for the roast of a HBS professor than I did for any individual case.” Gandhi: “Touring... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
behavioral ethics. I explore why some decisions are much more easily resolved in the classroom than in practice and offer three ways to more effectively prepare students: integrating ethical decision-making with core-discipline teaching,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne