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- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
up a balance sheet of my personal assets and liabilities,” says Cooper. “I had been successful in two professions—nuclear submarines and investment banking—in which success required a combination of technical and interpersonal skills. I had a long-standing interest in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
proudest achievement to date has been reaching out to all political parties and all members of the press, and conferring with ambassadors from many nations, not just key big-country allies. I think it’s the right thing to do, and it has... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
of going with Carlyle as a buyout partner, and then (ii) increasing the value of that business following the buyout. Since the profitability of a buyout depends on finding high-quality deals, the firm has focused to date on leveraging its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
responsibility of managing corporate culture The McDonald’s ordeal should prompt leaders and board members to ask themselves several important questions, Paine says: 1. What is our policy on workplace relationships? McDonald’s had an explicit written policy prohibiting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the future, but with needs that clamor for solutions right now. The leaders of cities feel the heat, literally and figuratively: “Mayors can’t just talk about goals for the year 2050,” Bloomberg says, citing a date often used for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
reprimand; and establish a culture where people are treated with respect. Amabile notes that the study of creativity at business schools is a relatively new phenomenon, dating back to the 1980s or so. “It’s very new in one sense, yet the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
undergo renovation. "For years, every measure of success in our industry was driven by quantity," Lopez observes. "How many buildings, how many screens, how many seats? We turned that equation around and began to focus on quality." AMC's roots View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
the chore I had dreaded. Almost all my writing was spared, including a number of puns, evidently not noticed. I was allowed to update all early costs and prices, assign date ranges, and bury citations unobtrusively in the text. By... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
trillion to date in worldwide government revenues through increased efficiencies in the sale of essential but difficult-to-auction entities ranging from radio wave frequencies to mineral and timber rights. Before the introduction of... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
turnaround distressed companies. But as CD&R entered into its fifth decade and its largest fund to date (nearly $10 billion AUM), competition, AUMs, industry "dry powder," and buyout valuations were all on the rise. Within... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
question-asking on liking. In addition to analyzing live get-to-know-you conversations online, we also studied face-to-face speed-dating conversations. We find that speed daters who ask more questions during their dates are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
academic approaches to date has provided an entirely coherent picture of the process, in part because of the contradictory models of the process that they generate. The article goes on to consider the planning processes that are involved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a partnership that became iTrust View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
plan will go to the governor's office sometime in the first part of July for him to sign off on, and then the State agencies need to get to work and will on implementing that plan. And that will be a multi-month process to implement the plan and make sure that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
reform’s biggest downside to date as the negative financial impact on the traditional “safety-net providers” — hospitals whose business models depended on subsidies they received for handling a high volume of uninsured, low-income... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
among scientists that was unprecedented in human genetics research. A professor of genetics and director of Harvard Medical School's Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Church noted that his own computer experience dates back to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
are experts at diagnosing and solving a variety of issues for their clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally.” To regain equilibrium, over the past two years, some major consulting firms have meaningfully slowed recruiting and have... View Details
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When Generations Learn Together
would create jealousy from any of my other kids. We haven't had that problem, as no one to date has expressed a desire to participate with us. But as a parent, it is important to be aware of that possibility. That's one benefit I see in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
interview dates on campus. I was all set to go when I received a call from Grove to come to his office, where he directed me to cancel my trip. When I asked why, his blunt Hungarian-accented response was that “HBS graduates were a bunch... View Details