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- 09 Aug 2022
- News
4 Strategies for Shifting the Power Balance in Your Business
- 01 Dec 2021
- News
Humanizing the Profit Motive
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
HBS professor advised me to begin my project by asking companies to pay smoodi to come to their offices and prepare customized smoothies for the employees. The idea was that if I couldn’t gain money this way, a machine would never work....
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Entrepreneurship
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
relationships and sources of information about what is really going on. As one leader said: "There can be a tendency to say, 'Well, I'll lock myself in the room and I'll come up with a plan.' That is important, but you're not going...
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by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- Profile
Laura Sandoval
General Mills. There, she worked on two snack brands, Larabar and Food Should Taste Good, before rotating to a sales marketing role in Philadelphia. “My biggest lesson during that time? The critical importance of relationship building,”...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
receiving illegally mined diamonds in exchange. RUF rebels took U.N. peacekeepers hostage in Sierra Leone, and the United States threatened to impose sanctions over Taylor's relationship with the RUF. Meanwhile, Liberia's northern border...
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- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
Amazon.com is taking an interesting approach to its birthday this year. The company is throwing itself a party where all its Prime customers get the gifts. Amazon Prime Day is slated for July 15th, "a one-day shopping event with more...
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- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy big, sell small
ApnaKlub—which leases warehouse space and trucks—sources the requested products from brand-name manufacturers and distributes them to the wholesalers, who deliver within a reliable time frame. “We leverage technology to bring our View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
That Costs HOW Much?
for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases How marketers...
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- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
conducted behavioral-change experiments in health, agriculture, and microfinance in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She brings that globetrotting experience to bear when teaching a second-year course called Managing Global...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and military...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
order and devour a pepperoni pizza at midnight, try tackling next week’s grocery list instead. Researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth of customer orders from an online grocer. Their...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Use Baker Library to Build a Target List
on the advertised job market, creating a target list allows you to be proactive and focused on industries and functions that interest and excite you. Custom target lists Baker librarians can assist you in creating a View Details
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
and introductory only. This course goes deeper. Grounded in the understanding that relationships are paramount to success as an advisor, this course priorities the client relationship, in addition to how to View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
people in the company and the person who is working the assembly line or answering the phones. How do you stay in touch with those who work for you? Mühlemann: Walking around, seeing customers together with colleagues, e-mail,...
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- October 1993
- Case
Wertheim Schroder/Schroders
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum, Lisa Gabriel and Pamela A. Yatsko
In 1986, Wertheim & Co. of New York entered into a joint venture with Schroders plc of London to form the investment bank Wertheim Schroder. By 1993, there were numerous successes as the partners pursued joint opportunities, but there were also areas in which...
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Joint Ventures;
Investment Banking;
Partners and Partnerships;
Alliances;
Horizontal Integration;
Outcome or Result;
Balanced Scorecard;
New York (city, NY);
London
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Kalman D. Applbaum, Lisa Gabriel, and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Wertheim Schroder/Schroders." Harvard Business School Case 394-053, October 1993.
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other...
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Francis Storrs
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
experts have deemed this approach inadequate. As Pankaj Ghemawat notes: The emphasis on folding non-market considerations into the analysis of market relationships tends to focus on the effects of non-market variables . . . at the expense...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne