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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
born in Vietnam. My mother is Vietnamese and was 20 years old when she had me; my father was a military contractor. It’s still unexplainable why he decided to marry my mother and bring us back to the United States, because tens of...
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- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Yoffie asked, will the future be much less rosy? An often-used comparison with the tulip mania that overwhelmed Holland in the seventeenth century, he asserted, is not the right way to think about the Internet fever that began...
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by Jim Aisner
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
sports industry accounted for around $50 billion in revenues in the United States in 2007, up from just under $35 billion in 2001. On a global scale, total revenues are expected to be nearly $100 billion...
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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
transitioning green economy. She is now the secretary of the board of the 11-year-old trade association for the waste-heat-to-power industry, Heat is Power. The organization’s website says that it lobbies in Canada and the United View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
CEO about as tough as it ever has been. Companies need world-class efficiency, constant innovation, and a customer orientation. This requires a group of talented, dedicated people working as a team across business units and country...
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- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
organizations include Enron, USAID, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bain & Co., United Technologies Corp, and International Resources Group. Rick graduated with a BS cum laude in engineering from USMA West Point and is a decorated Vietnam...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
of business operations support, the plucky British expatriate recounts her "life's ups and downs," as she puts it, with humor and grace. One of Barron's first setbacks came in the late 1960s, when she arrived in the United View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
a celebration of togetherness, diversity, and understanding, just the opposite of a civil riot. “Social change is embedded in our business model,” says Endline. “Every unit we sell impacts a farmer, a plant worker, or an artist. It’s a...
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Barboza Guzman, Laurence D. Higgins, John G. Meara, Erin Padden, Apurva S. Shah, Peter Waters, Marco Weidemeier, Sam Wertheimer, and Thomas W. Feeley This article describes early time-driven activity-based costing work at several leading healthcare organizations in the...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
rents from firms producing and commercializing products. In this Industry Note, we describe the origin, evolution, costs, benefits, and future outlook for Patent Trolling in the United States. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
addition, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 amplified voices calling for racial justice in the United States and these conversations awoke an understanding in Gomih about how change is really made. “When...
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- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex deals. Take buying a house, which for many people is the most important transaction in their lives. In the United States, a house purchase is a very "tight" deal—once the seller commits to a particular buyer, the seller...
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by Julia Hanna
- Web
Terms of Use - HBS Online
international laws, rules and regulations, including privacy and copyright laws, any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of residence, and all United States export...
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- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
responsibility for poor performance and continue to get highly paid, it's no wonder there is widespread dissatisfaction." E. Shields stated that it may be the result of disappointed expectations: "People believe that their work...
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by Jim Heskett
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
investors lose. The idea has garnered much discussion in the United States since President Obama proposed spending up to $100 million on social impact bond pilot programs when announcing the 2012 budget in...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
GROVE Born in Hungary in 1936, András István Gróf survived Nazi and Communist regimes before fleeing to the United States at the age of twenty. In 1997, as chairman and CEO of Intel, Andrew Stephen Grove was...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53548 November 14, 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths By: Luca,...
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Sean Silverthorne