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- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry...
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- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
dreams of consumers, because a brand that’s built on such appeals will find it hard to grow to be a source of pride. Apparently misogyny, xenophobia, and contempt for the disabled have worked as customer acquisition tools for soon-to-be...
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by John A. Deighton
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By...
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- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
it’s time to look for a new job. To learn more about evaluating your current position, read Dina Gerdeman’s story, Bad at Your Job? Maybe It’s the Job’s Fault. 3. Resolution: Score a job interview at your dream company. Tip: Stop posting...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
maniacal 'toon,"' screams Dr. Doom in Steven Spielberg's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. His eyes are red and sinister and pop out of his head. His dream is to build the modern highway, with restaurants and gasoline stations pouring their...
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by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
says Tarun Khanna, is that startups must create their own trust. Fintech, Small Business, & the American Dream Karen Mills describes how technology is opening up new capital for entrepreneurs. Creative Construction: The DNA of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
Business MBA students participating in Harvard Business School’s Climate Change Challenge offer ideas on how companies can negate impacts from a changing environment. Understand that solutions don’t come easily ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted...
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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
creditworthy customers are being shut out, that’s a problem. Even worse, if we don't understand why, we can’t fix it. About the Author Karen G. Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and the author of Fintech, Small Business & the American View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
team owner, is now the time to sell while franchise value and fan support are at their peaks, or will the business of the NFL be viable for years to come? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-104...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
said. "I worked my butt off." And it paid off. Continental hired her as a permanent, full-time financial analyst. She was thrilled; doing a job she found rewarding at the company she had always dreamed of working for. She met a...
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by Wendy Guild
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
economy, must be leery of rescuing Wild West investor/risk-takers. As this empire crumbles, the people at the base—the waitress in Detroit, the laborer in Sacramento, the daycare worker in Boston—will lose not just the dream and security...
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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
will have to be crafted around them." Another determinant of success in this market is the ability to sell—and deliver on—hope. "Providers are selling the promise of a child, the dream of a family, but at some point they have to...
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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an expert on leadership and organizations. "For most of the industrial age, we expected large employers to provide essential benefits, including healthcare after retirement. That meant we didn't have to face much public...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
consumers. Webvan was perhaps unrealistically imagined to be such a channel. The difference between Dell and Proctor & Gamble is that Dell can supply all your computing needs, but Proctor & Gamble can never aspire to supplying all your home provisioning needs....
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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
preserve liquidity and affordability? What will be the implications for young families, particularly low- to moderate-income families? Is the American dream of homeownership to be abandoned? In the midst of partisan debate, I hope to add...
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- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
jump from their corporate job to start the social venture they've been dreaming about. Our findings suggest that if you're working in business to get the business mindset, there may be a case for jumping sooner," says Lee.
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football League team, his View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
at Harvard Business School. Nicholas Howson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, focused his comments on developments in China. Corporate investment in China used to be long-term and brand-focused, he said, with an MNC View Details
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by Julia Hanna