Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

prompted its resurgence were notable not just for their boldness or the returns they generated. It was also for their source: a 29-year-old in her first year on the job. A four-year-old Nisa and her father, Adi Photo courtesy of the... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

share with everybody that at the end of the eight-week marathon, I would typically ask a couple of students to tell their story about their company or about themselves. And in my class, I remember your sharing that journey of yours. By... View Details

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

And so I think that's how we've been able to move the line with a lot of our operators. Morrell: Was this a big lesson internally for McDonald's? Cunningham: Yeah, I think it was. And it's allowed us to do... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

at the current financial crisis in hopes of solving it? I draw a parallel between the natural world and the financial world in the concluding part of the book and sketch out a rough evolutionary theory of finance. And the bottom line is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2008
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Squeeze Play

would make him a learned man indeed. It seems LaMagna never met an offbeat scheme (drive-ins as discos) or gadget (square lasagna pans the length of lasagna noodles) that he didn’t like or want to turn into... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

Hoffman-Senn. The founders have questions about a leap like this: How would they adapt to the sales cycles? How or when would larger clients affect their staffing structure and self-service platform? Are these worries even warranted?... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1999
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Water, Water Everywhere

course, weather patterns. How those factors played out, she recalled, "determined whether we got to buy our clothes or make our clothes that year." Mark noted that she never expected to find herself again in a business where the bottom... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)

What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2006
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Fast Lane to Country Lane

help craft unique pieces of furniture, including Shaker-style trestle tables, four-poster beds, and computer desks. Last year, Mark added a line of high-end poker tables. “Now we’re looking for that sweet spot where we can be View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2015
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Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

Cofounder, CEO & Board Chair, Numenta, Inc. Former CEO, Palm Computing, Inc., & Handspring, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1977 B.A., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Integrity first and foremost. You just can't... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Nov 2019
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Lifting Fallen Families

Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

play. It wasn’t clear if, or how, a movie would ever fit into this point of view. When Lin first approached Lego, the company hedged, asking him to consider working on a specific play theme like Lego’s robot View Details