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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-045 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price which would net Twaalfhoven and...
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Course: Startup Operations Studio (SOS) Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 1.5 ^ back to top B Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Joseph Badaracco The Moral Leader General Management Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Josh Baron Leading a View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
money wages. Although many workers were now living better than before, many were also less secure, since they could no longer rely on extended family support networks, which were a common feature of farm life. Any interruption in an...
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
in background and perspective. Despite the obvious passion, everyone seemed to get along, pulling together around the common purpose of making exceptional family films. “There was this sense of community, this unbelievable sense of ‘we...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
work. Alfred Chandler: The road that led me to write Inventing the Electronic Century had a bit of a twist and turn. I originally planned a single study in comparative institutional history called "Paths of Learning: The Evolution of...
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by Jim Aisner
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
debt choice is more pronounced for firms with high financial distress risk, firms that are informationally opaque, and firms that are family controlled. Moreover, this effect is weakened by the presence of multiple large owners and in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
companies alike, this means organizations that are investing in and marketing resource productivity at scale—whether sharing assets or adding insulation. In the real estate and urban planning world, this means new cities with density,...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
campaigns and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a large kettle of...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
many four-person trailers installed there. We had AC most of the time, showers, and good food. It gave me tremendous respect for our soldiers, men and women who have left their families and jobs behind and who enjoy very few comforts....
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
students in the classes of 2020 and 2021 who were the first in their families to attend college and now graduate school. Average fellowship support per student increased 8 percent in fiscal 2019 to $42,000, from $38,959 in the prior year....
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-437 Oak Street Health: A New Model of Primary Care No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717437-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Camposol has evolved rapidly in recent years and is undergoing the challenges of transforming from family to professional management. This case allows students to consider Camposol’s growth, branding, and marketing strategies in light of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
the down payment, we’ll start a family and bring on the nanny. We’re going to spend my bonus on the down payment for that house. All of those decisions are all making sense in the short term. It’s what everyone else is doing, but then it...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop....
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
know each other as if they are family members. One can imagine they know where all the buttons are that can be pushed. As the case describes, they went through periods of not liking each other very much. Paul told me how other string...
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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Whillans, and Frances Chen Abstract—The transition to university is a major life change wherein young adults' primary support system shifts from the family to peers. Can social integration (operationalized as the number of friends) during...
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Sean Silverthorne