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- 01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Strategy Landscape” like a typical HBS lecture, though there was no case included. (View photos.) “We know the audience was quite excited and impressed with the lecture,” says Lovenbach, adding that HBS faculty speakers attract the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
illegally obtained. Outside the financial institutions, recent cases involving a range of products — such as appliances, helicopters, and gems — demonstrate that a variety of companies aren't vigilant enough when dirty money is used to...
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- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
defining value in different ways, or from LEAD about placing a strong emphasis on emotional intelligence as a core value in conducting business. I love the lesson from strategy about defining blue oceans instead of competing in red oceans.” Tucker: “I was skeptical...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Inspiration Is Not Enough
“human transporter.” But tons of funding and big-name partners couldn’t overcome consumer reluctance. “Kamen endowed Segway with many positive attributes but not enough to break through and claim commercial success,” Harris writes. Many of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?
affect far more than your dinner. “It’s potentially severely disruptive in that it gets a lot of the current players out of the market and completely changes the supply chain,” says Alvarez, who explores this impact in a new case study...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
programs, and leadership it’s had over the years. For me, the classroom was my favorite place. My chief emphasis was teaching an approach, not so much facts or theories. I especially enjoyed the back-and-forth with students and discussing View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
What was the process? In most cases I interviewed the faculty member and then worked to distill his or her ideas into one salient point. Often they made fifteen fabulous points, so there was some work in figuring out how to focus each...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace recently asked Koehn...
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Antarctica
- 19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look
environment and I’ve had plenty of those ‘Kerty was sitting at her desk ’ case protagonist moments where I have to stop, take a breath, and figure out what direction we are going to head in next.”
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail financial services are also...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
MBA Program. "The Academic Committee has had broad impact in areas such as course development, where we have advocated more international cases and more cases with women protagonists," he says. Royo has also...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
all the time.” He cites a quote from famed racing driver Mario Andretti that came up during an HBS classroom discussion: “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” “I found the case method very pragmatic,”...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
living in an HBS case study over the last 15 years, as the book industry has been transforming itself into a more digital industry. As recently as five years ago, some of the crystal ball folks said, “Oh, physical books are going to go...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
customers can relax." In contrast, the bookselling industry itself is a case study in competitiveness, with firms poised to pounce on every customer desire and need. Back in 1991, for instance, DiRomualdo sensed there was an opportunity...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
Executive Education programs drew a record 9,345 participants. And Harvard Business Publishing sold 8.2 million cases and over 2 million books, peak figures for both. These and many other details are laid out in narrative, charts, and...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
process. Charismatic pioneers of the healthy building movement who have paired up to combine the cutting-edge science of Harvard’s School of Public Health with the financial know-how of HBS, Joseph Allen and John Macomber lay out the science of healthy buildings and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
defining what measures of social return it is looking for. In some instances social and economic returns could be correlated, but in many cases they won’t. If you are looking for a social and not an economic return, then loyalty to the...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
the Russian economy, Mlotok entered an annual case competition sponsored by McKinsey; of the thousands of applications received, she was one of twenty finalists, and one of two offered a full-time position. Hoping to build on her work...
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- 28 May 2019
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Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
to everyone I could find who was even remotely associated with the tomato paste industry.” To her surprise, HBS faculty had written numerous cases on tomatoes. After reading one on the Morning Star Company, a California-based tomato...
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