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- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of two articles, Davis discusses leadership models. Part One:...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
them. John D.Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and former chairman and CEO of the George B. H. Macomber Company, a general contractor. Mega sporting events like the Olympics bring a global...
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- June 2013 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Angus Cartwright IV
By: Kenneth J. Hatten, William J. Poorvu, Howard H. Stevenson, Arthur I Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.
Judy and John DeRight, looking to diversify their investment portfolios, have retained Angus Cartwright, Jr. to identify prospective real estate acquisitions. Mr. Cartwright has four potential properties that he feels merit an in-depth financial analysis. The case...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Cash Flow;
Investment Return;
Investment Portfolio;
Taxation;
Balanced Scorecard;
Valuation
Hatten, Kenneth J., William J. Poorvu, Howard H. Stevenson, Arthur I Segel, and John H. Vogel, Jr. "Angus Cartwright IV." Harvard Business School Case 813-185, June 2013. (Revised July 2017.)
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
this way, maintain John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win the support your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers and obfuscators deploy time...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 1975 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Angus Cartwright III
By: Kenneth J. Hatten, William J. Poorvu, Howard H. Stevenson, Arthur I. Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.
Judy and John DeRight, looking to diversify their investment portfolios, have retained Angus Cartwright, Jr. to identify prospective real estate acquisitions. Mr. Cartwright has four potential properties that he feels merit an in-depth financial analysis. The case...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Cash Flow;
Investment Return;
Investment Portfolio;
Taxation;
Balanced Scorecard;
Valuation
Hatten, Kenneth J., William J. Poorvu, Howard H. Stevenson, Arthur I. Segel, and John H. Vogel, Jr. "Angus Cartwright III." Harvard Business School Case 375-376, June 1975. (Revised September 2004.)
- November 1991 (Revised April 1994)
- Case
Taco Bell Corp.
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell
John Martin, Taco Bell CEO, brings the company into line with its competitors through incremental change during the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he adopts breakthrough approaches to improve service levels while reducing prices, providing a distinct competitive advantage....
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Food;
Competitive Advantage;
Innovation and Management;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Roger H. Hallowell. "Taco Bell Corp." Harvard Business School Case 692-058, November 1991. (Revised April 1994.)
- 2004
- Book
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and...
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Friedman, Walter A. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Birth of a Salesman
This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
- November 1992 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Deere & Co. (A): The Computer Aided Manufacturing Services Division - A Window to the World (Abridged)
By: Robert H. Hayes
The Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Services Division of John Deere has just received approval to sell their software and computer systems to external customers. These tools, initially developed for internal use, have been widely used throughout Deere. Still,...
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Keywords:
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Machinery and Machining;
Technological Innovation;
Markets;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Outcome or Result;
Computer Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Hayes, Robert H. "Deere & Co. (A): The Computer Aided Manufacturing Services Division - A Window to the World (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 693-051, November 1992. (Revised December 1992.)
Steven C. Wheelwright
Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.
Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
driven at least partly by career concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-014.pdf Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Is Staying In Staying Safe?
- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a connected device and mobile app that delays a smartphone alarm from sounding until the shower...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Author: M. H. Bazerman Publication: In Acting in Time on Energy Policy, edited by David T. Ellwood and Kelly Gallagher. Brookings, in press No abstract is available at this time. Interactivity's Unanticipated Consequences for Markets and...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
McNally Jason P. Mitchell Ellis Monk Matthew K. Nock Orlando Patterson Elizabeth A. Phelps Steven Pinker Robert J. Sampson Daniel L. Schacter Theda Skocpol Mario L. Small Jesse Snedeker Leah H. Somerville Elizabeth S. Spelke Tomer D....
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Stefanie Stantcheva Jeremy Stein James Stock Ludwig Straub Tomasz Strzalecki Lawrence H. Summers Elie Tamer Winnie Van Dijk David Yang Current HBS Faculty Laura Alfaro Samuel B. Antill Brian K. Baik Malcolm P. Baker View Details
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
BrownStryker Corporation, 1977–2004 Lewis H. BrownJohns-Manville Corporation, 1929–1946 Alvin G. BrushAmerican Home Products, 1935–1965 John H. Bryan, Jr.Sara Lee Corporation,...
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- November 2007
- Case
Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Translating innovative ideas form the clinician to the patient remains a major problem in the field of medicine. Dr. John Parrish and colleagues created an organization (CIMIT) that brings the technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative...
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Keywords:
Financing and Loans;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Resource Allocation;
Alliances;
Research and Development;
Health Industry;
Service Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)." Harvard Business School Case 608-036, November 2007.
- Web
Marketing - Doctoral
research interests is absolutely key.” Ximena Garcia-Rada 2021 Graduate, Marketing Current HBS Faculty Tomomichi Amano Eva Ascarza Max H. Bazerman David E. Bell Alison Wood Brooks Alex Chan Julian De Freitas Rohit Deshpande Anita Elberse...
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Placement - Doctoral
University of Southern California, Leventhal School of Accounting Dissertation: Truth and Bias in M&A Target Fairness Valuations: Appraising the Appraisals Advisors: Suraj Srinivasan, John Coates, and Charles C.Y. Wang Close Business...
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