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- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
that sees something that others don’t see. You have to be convinced that three other people with the same idea in Silicon Valley or Bangalore, India, would not be able to out-execute this team. Passion, tenacity, and a magnet-like ability to draw talent, supporters,...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
innovations may have been -- whether it was Ray Kroc's refinement of franchise economics or Henry Ford's perfection of assembly line production -- every organization faced the key business problem of determining where to place the...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
heavily in employees and the other focuses mainly on shareholders or customers," Paine says. A secondary category of ethical issues, she notes, involves questions arising from the actual M&A; transaction. "Some really vexing issues...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
functions that weren’t our core strengths. You don’t need to be an expert at everything. What keeps me up at night: We grew this business to 26 employees and more than 100 global clients while being involved in every detail, but that’s...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the power...
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Jennifer Myers
- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
inequality. We are hoping to engage more and more companies and alumni in bringing the power of the market system to the inner city." Partnering for Success A small number of key business leaders can make a big difference by leveraging...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Feedback
undercut us. Our employees have to trust that we will deliver on our promises. We have to trust that business partners will deliver on their contracts. But I find it hard to know whom to trust, and I have proven to myself that I am bad at...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Apr 1998
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New Releases
bottom-line value is extracted from the key dimensions of implementing sense and respond strategies," says Nolan, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology, who is a frequent collaborator with Bradley, the William...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
or adaptive organism, there are changes. Karl Marx, while he was wrong about almost everything, was actually right on at least one thing — the labor theory of value. What matters most is the people in your company, more than the capital, the technologies, or the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt
and alternative energy development. China is capable of steady growth over the coming years and will continue to be a key component of GE's global strategy, he added, provoking a question from one audience member regarding the propriety...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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New Releases
of confidence that demonstrates the risks of neglecting customer and employee relationships in the face of large-scale change. Once the world's most admired corporation, IBM stumbled badly in the early 1990s. The company, now making a...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice
practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
organizations, a deep sense of purpose was their key to growth. Humans are wired to find meaning in what we do, and tapping into that can have a transformative effect on an organization—and the people who work there. Here, in a...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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East to West
Japan.” A family-controlled but publicly traded company, Sumida was founded in 1956 by Ichiro Yawata, Shiggi’s father. The company reported revenues of 14 billion yen ($112 million) and had 5,200 employees when Shiggi Yawata was appointed...
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