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- 01 Apr 2022
- News
How Can Individual People Most Help Ukraine?
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
between the board’s conservative Republicans, who perceived a liberal bias in the curriculum, and its more moderate Republicans and Democrats. For three days, the board held contentious open meetings, arguing issues centuries old—Were the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
"During the times of the Republic, the Romans had a very small government, which outsourced all kinds of economic activities. They even took bids for services such as tax collection and street construction. The companies that formed in the process had many elements... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
In a previous study of companies in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Deshpandé and colleagues from Tuck found that the most successful firms in these diverse countries had remarkably similar corporate... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
perceived limits to discover their possibilities. We help them realize that they’re capable of far more than they thought, both physically and emotionally. When someone leaves the safe harbor of an Outward Bound course with an ability to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
Many products are sold for just one selling season. It’s extremely difficult to predict demand—sometimes demand actually increases as the price goes up due to perceived quality and popularity. These factors make selling fashion products... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
our new fund, is likely to be very similar in its composition. You didn’t use the term Web 2.0 to describe your investment prospects. Why not? It almost never gets mentioned here. We talked a lot about Web 2.0 in 2003 and 2004 as we... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey examined whether senior executives... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
self-awareness can be more difficult. “Sometimes this means having some honest conversations with people in your life and doing a lot of introspection,” says Amabile. Next, reflect on Agency “The ability to make a change is in your hands, when you View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
generous welfare state. It emerged instead from evolving coalitions between fledgling consumer lenders seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of nongovernmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Street responded by creating commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which are similar to, but more complex than, the mortgage-backed securities long used to bundle and sell packages of residential loans. “Commercial mortgage-backed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
for a larger screen, more storage, and other improvements over the Kindle 2, which sells for $299). “I’m 100 percent committed to making this deal close and making it a successful deal,” Wilcox told the Boston Globe in a June 13 article that cited some investors’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
their workplace “unit” similar to military life. “A driving motivation among the frontline workers was not letting down the people around them,” she explains. “Leading in a civilian setting is not unlike in the military: if you do your... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
fund raising to create a similar campaign that's focused on preventing the use of opioids. Can you just talk a little bit about the meth campaign and how you're going to transition that to preventing the use of opioids? Langford: Sure.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
insight that mentors can come to you in many stripes and disguises. Looking back, my mentors did not appear on the surface to be similar but turned out to be invaluable. I realize now that it took some time to shed the fantasy that... View Details