Economic Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

you to be flexible and to recognize where the opportunities are; HBS is a long-term school, not a short-term school. The skills we’ve learned here will be valuable for the rest of our lives, not just in our next job. Tyler Koop: I agree. If there’s one school where... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

Home: Winter Harbor, Maine “I don’t consider myself retired,” says Bill Holden. “I’m just working in a different realm without the day-to-day performance requirements.” The author of three novels (with a fourth to come in 2005), Holden is... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

timely information and to perform transactions quickly and economically have spurred organizational and strategic transformation. Customers' expectations and demands are escalating, as well. As Schwab's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

most importantly, a platform is something you can build on. Cummings developed the Orchestra Place project, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous other performances spaces and educational programs. It is nicknamed “The... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy... View Details

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

learnings captured in his recent book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies. READ MORE Flint: Why don't we start by talking about what you mean by deep purpose and how it’s different from the mission statements... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

international guidelines on issues such as maintaining biodiversity, conserving forests, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "People left the conference feeling enthusiastic and confident," says Fri. "Unfortunately, nagging economic... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

private equity then exploring the evidence on performance of private equity investments at both the portfolio company level and fund level, documenting the creation of economic value. The book then presents... View Details

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