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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
empowering—has the ability to unlock a higher level of performance in a climate where employees are used to being in a very rigid, top-down structure.” His bike: The H-D Street Glide Special. “It’s a great bike for touring long distances,...
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- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
on that need. For line-holders, a higher bribe meant the jumper was more desperate. But there were limits to that generosity. When Oberholzer-Gee tried to cut into the same line a second time, the crowd grew hostile and he felt forced to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
perhaps a bit self-congratulatory, but in retrospect this has certainly been 100% true. There’s a reason everyone always remembers the Erik Peterson case. I ended up spending the second semester of my second...
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- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
second year at BP in St. James Square in London, in 2005. And I was actually, on the tube the day of the 7/7 bombing. I was on the Piccadilly Line, on my way to St. James Square. And I was really, already fascinated by the world and the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
customer service and administration. “We connect them to great candidates they might otherwise overlook,” he says. Skillist’s job application platform omits a candidate’s name and other identifying information, adding instead more robust...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
biggest beauty brand, was worth $11.3 billion in 2008. Unilever’s Dove and P&G’s Pantene, in second and third place, had sales of $5.3 billion and $4.5 billion, respectively . Equally striking are the wide variations between countries in...
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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Interbrew and today the largest brewer in the world. He has served as chairman there since 2006. Peter Harf was born in 1946 in Cologne, Germany. He grew up an only child living right after the Second World War in the completely destroyed...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
in this way holds great promise, Thomke writes, “and may generate innovations that companies simply cannot imagine today.” — Deborah E. Blagg Becoming a Manager (second edition) by Linda A. Hill (Harvard Business School Press) First...
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- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
Successful retailers connect with customers via loyalty programs at three levels. The first is an introduction of sorts: the customer receives a generic reward for enrolling in the program. At the second level, the retailer contacts the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5...
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- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
But as Shahid Sheikh put it, "in foresight ... there never are right (or perfect) answers ...." Seconding that notion in practice (vs. theory), Kim Allen suggested that "Case studies would be a View Details
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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog
critiques of our market system, the course dives deep into some of the foundational theories of capitalism (John Locke’s Second Treatise , Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations , and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto ) and the capitalist state...
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- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past accomplishments. A View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
before moving on to join the newly-formed firm of Wasserstein Perella & Co. He names Joe Perella as an early sponsor and mentor in his career, and describes two moments of failure— one professional, one personal, in which Perella played a role. Ray McGuire: You know,...
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- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
fashion, CxOs and team leaders in the corporate world should be viewed as a source of competitive advantage for firms. Attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining great managers and leaders can also result in improved performance....
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Andreas Jaegle
Science. There, Andreas discovered an appetite for leadership, becoming president of the student-run Business Society in his second year, in which he “organized more than sixty events, including a trip to New York City.” After graduation,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Leave it up to HBS alumni clubs in Texas to plan events that leave big impressions on their members. Houston Club President Andrew L. Waite (MBA '93), now in the second year of his term, rattles off the high-caliber speakers his club...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Decide by Dave Ramos (MBA 1989) (Advantage Media Group) The way for an organization to win is to become differentiatingly great at one thing. Every executive team must decide what their one thing is, and Ramos finds that this concept gets...
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- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
classrooms. Daily we ask students what they think as part of a process of teaching and learning for students and faculty alike. Many of us then try to sum up what was said as part of a process of wrapping up each class; hence a second...
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by James Heskett