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- 12 Oct 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
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William H. Draper, III | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
CoxGreylock Michael DanziUS Labs William DonaldsonDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. DraperDraper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, IIIDraper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot DunphySealed Air Charles EllisGreenwich Associates Orit...
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John Whitehead | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
CoxGreylock Michael DanziUS Labs William DonaldsonDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. DraperDraper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, IIIDraper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot DunphySealed Air Charles EllisGreenwich Associates Orit...
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- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
option when they look at their financial returns and decide to share some of the wealth with their employees or their communities. That's what John Tu and David Sun did when they sold 80 percent of their company, Kingston Technologies, to...
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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
relatively quickly, then extend their efforts into other areas. The point is to get started. America’s health depends on all businesses to do their part. About the Authors John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Gordon Celebrates a Century
Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) On July 21, Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) celebrated his 100th birthday with a group of about thirty family members and friends at Fishers Island, New York. In honor of the day and as...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthiness: A Nutrition Metric
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
first time. David A. Thomas, an authority on mentoring, executive development, and workplace diversity, becomes a chaired professor as the inaugural incumbent of the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship of Business Administration. The chair...
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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
There are three components to family governance: Periodic (typically annual) assemblies of the family; all families in business can benefit from this activity. Family council meetings for those families that benefit from a representative group of their members doing...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses when to make changes at the top. No...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
these systems by clarifying family-business-ownership needs and managing the conversations needed to agree on goals, values, and policies. If you are in a family enterprise, you need to learn the basics of governance and apply the best practices that exist in family...
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- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. Optimism and pessimism are strong, stable traits that reflect our coping strategies. We live in an...
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- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited from inside or outside the company. Bower makes a strong case...
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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
A conversation with John Davis, author of "Challenges Facing Family Companies in the Gulf Region" Family Business Review, vol XIII, no. 3, September 2000. Q: Where does family business take you? Davis: I've been in this field...
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- 16 Feb 2015
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Should Business Keep it in the Family?
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of the thornier problems we discuss concerns family shareholder...
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- 21 Jan 2015
- News
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
- 31 Oct 2014
- News