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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
traditional measures of market performance. "Consumers," Koehn said, "are interested in how a product or offering meets a specific need or satisfies a given want. But they are increasingly also looking at companies' business practices—at how a product...
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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
high standards. Confidence requires an honest and thorough assessment of the situation and the courage to accept responsibility for dealing with it, even if that means owning up to past mistakes. Confidence and the high self-esteem...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
my own money, I was scared. So, when you’re investing your own money, you’re very, very cautious. So, I got close a couple of times and then didn’t get there. I think part of it was luck. I got close on a couple of deals that just didn’t...
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- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
something has been gone that long, but for those first hours, she definitely had it with her everywhere. I spent a great deal of time talking to my aunt not only about our family history, just trying to get the records straight. Again,...
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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
"What's the deal with you tonight?" And I said, "What's the deal? We lost by 20 points." She said, "I thought you were in rebuild mode." When I was there we were in rebuild mode in the Knicks and Rangers. So I have a little bit of...
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- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
thought about that and discerned, and then went out and did it. So here were a bunch of people given $500 to give away. And at the church, those of us who were in leadership said, you know, for some of you, really paying it forward actually means View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
brand awareness—and in the meantime, it can sell tickets in Austrian and German movie theaters and downloads on iTunes. The search for the real deal is cited as one of the factors driving the startling results of a Variety survey last...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are still experimental. The firm’s partners are pleased with their preliminary returns and the deal flow they’ve been able to cultivate, in part by empowering...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
a social mission. In what is one of the first commercial financing deals in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS, and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
of problems that cannot be predicted in advance must be resolved. Dealing with uncertainty requires different organizational choices in terms of team design, contract structure, and IP management. Consider, for example, a typical practice...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
it's a verbal tick. It's no big deal really." Then Sheryl said to me, "I know this great speech coach, and I'm sure Google would pay for it. Would you like an introduction?" Once again, I made this brush-off gesture with my hand. Then...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
provides practical advice on creating successful decision-making governance to reduce errors and correctly assigning responsibilities and incentives; dealing thoughtfully and effectively with governance challenges; building the right...
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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
our business, we get a lot of emails and we deal with a lot of emails. And so being able to chart that and almost be able to celebrate as you able to just make small dents in the size of that inbox and get it down as close to zero as...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
never spoke to open a case voluntarily. The fellow, who happened to be seated next to an aisle, said something to the effect that "I spent a good deal of time reading and studying this case last night and finally concluded that there was...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understand that our connected style can help us win all the deals we want and get all the business results our shareholders want, that’s really the broad concept here.” Nor has growth stymied the Vision Community exercise. It remains...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Arts, Entertainment;
National Security and International Affairs;
Government;
Health, Social Assistance;
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services;
Information;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
wrestle in their journals with the bank’s balance between doing well and doing good, even as they acknowledge that CB’s clients are better off than they would be without the loans. “When you are dealing with a more vulnerable and...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
performance chemicals. Simultaneously, Dow had signed a joint venture agreement with Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait, a deal that would generate $7 billion in cash that could be used to finance the all-cash offer to buy...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
show, when you're dealing with space exploration, nothing is ever certain. Note: Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut, spent 8 days aboard the Mir space station in May 1991.
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
summit, unabashed champions of free markets and government deregulation would have found the atmosphere more than a little unsettling. The biggest applause lines followed criticisms of business and government for failure to act more forcefully on behalf of the public...
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