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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Mushroom—and I made my way through it and was thrilled that it was over. It was my first cold call I ever got at HBS. And then we had our three-minute break before our next class, and I walk into the next class and the professor says,...
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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
services and quality of life. “The HBSCP projects gave me an exciting opportunity to help San Francisco break through a number of short-term challenges to be the world-class city it is rapidly becoming, while also being a great place to...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
commitments," Badaracco notes. "When an M&A; modifies or breaks these contracts, as they sometimes must, compensation may be due to people and groups that reasonably depended on the company to make good on its commitments. Thus, the...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
many high-achieving executives feel professionally dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Looking back, they wish they'd accomplished more or even chosen a different career altogether. Often they feel trapped in their jobs. In this article, Kaplan, a Harvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
customers and non-customers; and 2) We collected data from two laboratory studies. We break our theoretical problem into two subproblems. First, we ask, "What kind of WOM drives sales?" Motivated by previous research, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
solving the problem was of critical importance for the firm, management decided to break from convention and the disclose the specifics of the problem to a large group of unknown "outside" scientists requesting a solution in...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
Breaking Ground Construction began on Klarman Hall, a large-scale conference center, a performance space, and an intimate community forum slated to open in fall 2018. Made possible by a gift from Seth (MBA 1982) and Beth Klarman, the new...
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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Those are some of the types of questions in our estimates that we initially hadn't addressed. And now we're really trying to break our estimates down a little bit more to be able to guide people beyond their daily spending, since daily...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
to break $2 billion in revenue in 2018 with 300 million active users and a reported $8.5 billion valuation. Not bad for a failed ad-tech experiment. Here’s what we wrote about Peter and his team at the time we were considering the...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
at Risk, Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that not enough companies are stepping up to fix big global problems. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy Katherine...
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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Voting rights, things like that. And so if you break down some of these, at times, difficult to understand topics into their component parts and act on those, it can be a huge boon. I had a friend who runs a huge construction company in...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
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learnings you’ve had as you’ve developed your businesses? SS: Honestly, the biggest problems we’re having right now is that every time we scale, everything breaks again. Right now, we’re looking at how we can start documenting everything....
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation, as he put it, were sound? Upon...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Terwiesch Harvard Business Review Press What if there were a way to turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships—while simultaneously driving dramatic improvements in operational efficiency? What if you could View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee data to unreleased...
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- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
mental illness, I think it's to talk about it. It's important to break the stigma attached with this mental illness. To raise awareness and raise understanding, really, of eating disorders, I think it's important for family members to...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
two separate areas of research-decision making and inequality (or social disparity)-this new line of inquiry could help to break the stalemate that has, until now, characterized the study of inequality and its consequences. Download...
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Anna Secino
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
is required to handle these tasks effectively. A manager can easily become overwhelmed by emotion and erupt in anger when challenged in the meeting, or even break down in tears. Participants in our study related examples of each of these...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his intent to drastically reform both. Over the next two years, the Mexican constitution was amended, and a dozen implementing laws were passed to...
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by Sean Silverthorne