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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air
getting these organizations to pay for the service at full price or a discount and then provide it to the winning startups as an in-kind prize or investment? Assuming this activity will generate a significant amount of publicity, and as...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate visions of the future, sibling...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
entrepreneur; your Airbnb host is an entrepreneur; your Etsy craftsperson is an entrepreneur. Because of technology, individuals don’t need to work for a company, and the cost of entry is just plain easier. “Number two: Everything at the core of our society is getting...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
alumni in our programs are extraordinary individuals. Each had great success as consumers and users of management knowledge. Now, in the Doctoral Programs, they are producers of knowledge that will shape and influence management thinking...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of distribution was very limited by...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
deliver everyday tangible results. To that end, Meyer, deputy director general for The Private Office, has guided Mbeki's merger of the president and deputy president offices to form the Office of the Presidency. The new entity, which...
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Morgan Baker
- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
payments worldwide, and, earlier this year, Seattle-based OpenCar, an automotive software and services provider. “To become more horizontally integrated, we’re expanding the range of content we offer and moving from cloud-based data and...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
India have worked with faculty to enrich the global content of the HBS curriculum. In addition, members of the Class of 2008 come from almost seventy countries, bringing a rich diversity of perspectives that has a profound influence on...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built
faculty, he proposed a radical shift from lecture-style to case method instruction, which he knew well from his law school days. “All business not of a routine nature presents itself in the form of problems,” Donham posited. “Cannot a systematic effort be made to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice
innovative approach to giving than writing checks to 501(c)(3) charities. It’s not an either-or; in fact, at high wealth levels, many individuals and families use both DAFs and private foundations for different purposes. + ONLINE web-only View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the French rhythm of long midday breaks at home, reasonable working...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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New Idea: State of the Art
interviewer in 2013. It was a quantifiable argument: A major National Endowment for the Arts survey released that year reported that only about 20 percent of Americans visit museums annually, but 71 percent engaged with the arts through electronic media. Belsky’s...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
No Reason to Go Nuclear While I applaud the general thrust of Byron Wien’s “My Two Cents” contribution in the December issue, he wandered beyond his competency with the following statement: “We will need to View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith
people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late, we accelerate our development....
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
developed an imaging material comparable to paper, it would need to partner with others to build the display modules, handheld devices, digital content libraries, and e-commerce services to take advantage of it. And before sales could...
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- 29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook
all attendees and then mingles with them afterward. Out of 103 participants interviewed, 56 reported finding significant leads as a result of the forum; 19 of those leads resulted in business deals. "We found this type of gathering to be an effective institution for...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2013
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Leading the Way
offering users the opportunity to more easily find and connect with other alumni. The new website will also highlight stories of alumni—as well as faculty and students—and showcase the difference they are making in the world. The...
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