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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
including 40 kinds of cheesecake. The average per-person check and return visits per restaurant are an estimated 50 percent higher than the industry average. In the kitchen, a modular menu process (revised every six months) keeps costs...
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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
just writing checks to charity. Many people around the world think that the United States stands for greed and domination of other countries. That's really unfair because this is also a very generous country, and I would like to get back...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
undertaking that could be worked on as a Holy Grail,” says Daniel J. Holland (MBA ’62), an ARD staffer in the late 1960s. “But he wouldn’t write a check until all the risks were understood.” Creating a Model for Venture Capital Success...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
with the app can scan the bar code of any product and immediately check for recalls, thus ensuring the safety of their children. Releasing government data and allowing the public to innovate creates a process of continuous feedback, he...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
their heads together and created a supervisory/reporting system that permitted Thyssen to check the monthly "results" as he called them. He conscientiously checked those figures and intervened when...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
help him handle the sometimes overwhelming challenges he faced as a managerial leader. "I tried my best to check my ego at the door," he says. "I avoided giving ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty,...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
fairness for marriage markets in a similar fashion. We prove that there are marriage markets where no amount of money can guarantee the existence of a fair allocation. Checking Your Identities at the Door? Positive Relationships Between...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
Steven Manchel, JD, Owner of Manchel Brennan Law Firm 26. Failure Presentations 27. Last Class: Course Wrap-up NOTE: assignments and due dates may be subject to change. Students are responsible for checking the course website for updates...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
enjoy the hands-on nature of running my own small company, having the opportunity to focus on different businesses at different stages of development. In small markets, the feedback on your actions can be swift and gratifying. But it can be humbling, too: The reality...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
asked about what he wanted to do differently ... He and his family took a year off. The company offers six months paid. He said that he wants to offer resources to his employees to make sure that, A, they totally disconnect, because he's seen anecdotally that people...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
There is an inescapable sense of history in the Bulletin's Sherman Hall offices, where three eight-foot-long bookshelves sag under the weight of 75 years of musty, leather-bound volumes of the magazine. But as often as our editors have returned to those volumes to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
lasting impact. Reference checks need to be done as in normal hiring situations—recognizing that tracking down referees make take more time and effort. Using recruiters can be a double-edged sword, especially in the current scenario as...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting processes. The situation has been escalated to Vodafone’s audit committee, which expects Colao and his team to act drastically. In the second case, 7 million have been...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
transparency is through actions and activity and allowing people to see things. Julia: I just wonder if you could talk a little bit about why you like this work and what kind of keeps you going, because I know your days must be very full. You must be going from...
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Agriculture
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Middlebrooks, Gwen Shuster-Haynes, and John Weber in June 1983, while they were still MBA students. Checking in with them five years later, in June 1988, we discovered many ways in which their lives - and their perspectives on work and...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
be a lot of material for a B case, C case. It's an ongoing saga. It's not ending now. It's just getting started. Kenny: Bill, thanks so much for joining us today. George: Thank you for having me. It's a real pleasure. Kenny: If you enjoy Cold Call, you should View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory and field studies shows that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
studying the air they breathe when they are at the surface; we study them where they live, underwater. And yet that’s exactly what we do with humans. For all this time spent indoors, we tend to focus much more on outdoor air quality than on indoor air quality. View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
all but two investors wrote their checks despite massive uncertainty as to the nature of the criminal charges and the complete certainty of bad press and high litigation costs. We launched the new website on time. As the company grew,...
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