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- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
The Boston Globe has a long feature on Brian Shortsleeve (MBA 2001), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) new chief administrator. The piece notes Shortsleeve’s challenge: $5.5 billion in debt and a $7 billion maintenance backlog, and pushback on his...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
World Nutella Day, held on February 5, inspired more than 40,000 Instagram posts as fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread shared recipe videos, memes, and selfies with jars. It was free marketing for Nutella maker Ferrero, which almost...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
An easy-to-use glossary and over sixty charts and diagrams define and illustrate complex financial terms and concepts. The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies by John P. Reese (MBA ’79) with...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
"Build it and they will come," announced Donald Hastings (MBA '53), chair of the HBS Global Alumni Conference held May 15-18 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. Greeting a record-breaking crowd of more than one thousand participants, he...
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- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. “You would think...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
provide a critical set of analytical and procedural skills." Along with grasping the basics in making a deal — the issues, priorities, similarities, and differences — Valley says it is crucial to consider with whom you are negotiating....
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- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Can U.S. manufacturing ever regain its once robust and thriving condition? The current issue of the Bulletin, which focuses on U.S. manufacturing and competitiveness, finds some optimistic signs amid intensified competition. But it’s...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Changing Student Life
around all over the place? It's clubs, it's all the things happening on your campus. We invented this service to put all this online." Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mascot Network, whose cofounder and chief strategy officer is Jason...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to...
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- 20 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning for the City of Philadelphia
in city government in my hometown of Philadelphia. After decades of economic decline there are signs of a resurgence. My work this summer has been to help create a government strategy that supports and accelerates this resurgence while...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
do big ones. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Does Blackstone have a strategy that distinguishes it from its chief competitors? First, we do a lot of corporate...
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- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
is an exploration of what it means for a business to be different, to be meaningfully different, to be different in a way that makes a difference to consumers," she says. “Differentiation is a way of thinking.” An authority on...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
communications device
Gradually introduce it, and then slowly add functionality." Sony hopes its stealth-positioning strategy will change the way consumers view its...
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by Youngme Moon
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
pace due to the increased rate at which we now exchange information. That’s why it is more important than ever for managers to make increased efforts to stay relevant and protect against skill obsolescence. Might they learn something...
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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
acquisition as the biggest challenge. But lacking a CM strategy and able to respond to only short-term financial pressures, most organizations do an inadequate job of selection, retention, and growth. For many years, Mobil pursued a...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
director and senior researcher. The initial survey, launched in October 2011, resulted in 9,750 responses, providing a deep and rich diagnosis of the US economy, and led to the Project’s first report, “Prosperity at Risk.” Since then, the Project has conducted an...
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- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
Like investing in a mansion when the real-estate market is at its peak, buying a dry bulk ship in a boom time is a terrible long-term investment, according to new research that predicts cycles in the shipping industry. The contrarian...
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