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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
looking to become what they want to be—as opposed to a series of vendor shops.— Pat Chadwick, Bloomingdale's Alan Barnett, senior vice president of merchandise planning and information systems for Barneys New York, noted that "the...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of this View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up...
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- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
adhering to five design principles. The success of several new products illustrates how. One is the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a low-cost wheelchair that can navigate rugged terrain in places with poor infrastructure; a modified version is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
usage. Were it used, this year's reported deficit would be some $750 billion higher. What is real about economic policy is the massive redistribution of spending power from young and future generations to older ones. Green points out that...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
business boot camp. Around the time of our last reunion, his extensive, twenty-year study of our class culminated in The New Rules, a book that not only documented our careers but also revealed the cataclysmic nature of the changes taking...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
"workaholic," Bertarelli is determined to stay on top of new management trends. His company was the subject of a 1995 HBS case study, and one of the reasons Bertarelli took time out of his hectic schedule to attend his reunion was to...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
us to the question of whether the U.S. automobile industry should qualify for help. Where should we draw the line? Is it now time for ideology to take over? What do you think? Original Article In view of world financial events, which take View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
to 9/11/01. More than three thousand people from eighty countries perish on a single day in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. On the heels of that horrific tragedy, this year's subsequent...
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Desmond Wong
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
customers over long periods of time. What's the secret of long-running megabrands such as Mountain Dew, Nike, and Budweiser? The magical sweet spot when a brand delivers imaginative stories that are perfectly attuned to society's desires. His View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer effects. We illustrate this idea in a...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
in the near future as well. Gasoline and oil are at their lowest prices since 2008, a year that saw oil peak at record highs of $140 a barrel before plummeting to just below $50 by year's end, roughly where it stands again today. Those...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
in a unified European market with the introduction of the Euro. This new landscape offers new business opportunities and possibilities to write cases that show very multicultural environments fairly unique...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
brings to his new role a broad expertise in global business practice, especially in the area of international marketing. Working with the Global Initiative's executive director Kathleen Cooke Ryan and a steering group of senior faculty,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
new Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, Chu brings a modern sensibility to the DC Comics seductress: “I thought it was time to update her as a smart scientist with more powers, character complexity, and antihero aspirations.” THE NAVY...
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April White
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
more as we move into the fall. In the meantime, chances are we can expect a significant amount of market volatility. So what do we do now? For starters, I believe that the federal government must focus on entitlement reform, new revenues,...
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by Staff
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's...
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