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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
his camera than the telephone. It was not long after he began his career that his mother never had to work again. When Sam Walton opened his first five and dime store in Newport, Arkansas, after being mustered out of the Army in 1945, his View Details
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
for Fijians, and plans are under way for a $2 million hospital for the islanders. "The Fijians don't have much material wealth, but they have an extreme amount of happiness, which derives from their character, their security, their culture, and their traditions. It's...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
candidates have the same political orientation (making coordination relatively more important and desirable), but they remain strong when two candidates only qualify for the second round (and there is no need for coordination), suggesting...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
participants understand how to orient their businesses in increasingly dynamic markets and provides strategies to help them recognize and respond to threats in the marketplace. Simons and Professor Michael Tushman share the topic of...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
resources and regulatory effort goes into ensuring that the public has access to these financial opportunities; in fact, much of American social policy oriented toward the non-indigent operates through structured opportunities for saving...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
seen a more sustained and sincere commitment by corporate leaders across industries, across regions of the United States, to make more progress on diversity and inclusion. How does that factor in your thinking about Live Better U, other programs at Walmart? And what...
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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
$200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in that it had a strictly commercial orientation and market-driven...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the intricate quantitative...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
achieving results across the entire system, moving from planning to action and ensuring fidelity of implementation on such an enormous scale is very difficult. Redesigning the structures and systems of a district so that they are coherent with the View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
oriented school — who had entrepreneurship as a central focus.” Resolving the situation once and for all would become one of the major goals of McArthur’s administration. And he had an idea about who might...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Financial Economics (forthcoming). Abstract This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's cultural orientation with respect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Right now, that job’s going to be about $68,000 to $70,000 a year. We do targeted recruiting, specifically, from what we call Hamilton County’s “priority schools.” Diversifying our IT workforce was one of the goals of this program, as...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
I think there’s a natural conversation. We have quarterly growth conversations between employees and their managers where we talk about these exact things to make sure that we’re in lockstep with what the goals of the business are and the...
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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
during my time at HBS here, I started two organizations. Essentially the theme is, let’s take as many shots on goal as possible. Let’s get capital from as many places as possible to take those shots on goal. And so I started both a...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49869 October 2015 Harvard Business Review Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are? By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—A manager decides whether he should hide his sexual orientation...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
organizations transition to these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to transitions to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
orientation of the "hierarchical industry leaders" can entail large missed opportunities for other members of the ecosystem, who are unable to fully exploit their potential in global markets. We argue that Japan has to adopt...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from...
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