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04 Jan 2022
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Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

20 Dec 2018
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Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments

16 Jun 2021
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Lina Khan, Big Tech Skeptic, Named FTC Chair Mere Hours after Confirmation

January 2017
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Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (A)

By: William W. George and Monica Baraldi

In 2014, Medtronic was about to execute a $50 billion acquisition of Ireland-based Covidien. Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak was committed to building the largest medical technology company in the world while broadening its ability to fulfill its mission of “alleviating... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Medtronic; Covidien; Mission; Tax Inversion; Business Strategy; Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Republic of Ireland; Europe; Minnesota; United States

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Educators

Purchase

17 Apr 2012
News

Japan's trading houses move into the big league

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

out of cash before solving the problem, Harvard Business School researchers write in Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight, recently published in the Strategic Management Journal. For startups trying to hang on until their next... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jan 2012
News

Big Three Newscasts Are Changing the State of Play

11 Jul 2014
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Wells Fargo, other big banks could see lower profits

04 Sep 2012
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Executives Miss A Big Opportunity When They Negotiate

03 Apr 2015
News

What Popular Baby Names Teach Us About Data Analytics

Keywords: big data; data analytics; business strategy

07 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

allegations Because social media posts can affect short-term demand for specific coins or tokens, securing promotion by influencers is big business that has ensnared some big... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Sep 2019
News

How Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash

August 2015 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (A): Developing a New Model

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox

Bridj, a Boston startup that provides Big Data-powered, "pop-up" bus routes that respond to transportation demand, has been in operation for a little over a year and has recently launched service in Washington, D.C., its second market. Despite media acclaim and... View Details

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03 Dec 2012
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In World of Big Stuff, the U.S. Still Rules

03 Jan 2022
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Some Big Wall Street Banks Reverse Their Back-To-Office Plans—Again

09 Jan 2016
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Amy Cuddy: big fan of tales of small towns

28 Aug 2012
News

Got a big decision to make? Sleep on it

16 Oct 2012
News

‘This Comes As a Big Surprise’: GS Board Member

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he has been a go-to consultant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Feb 2016
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Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

cities” field. “I wanted to explore the opportunities and challenges of selling to government in a company that is moving from selling hardware in big chunks to selling software as a service,” says Weiss, the MBA Class of 1961 Senior... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

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