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- 01 Oct 1998
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Value Added
slivers of the value chain," he says. "Firms will then leverage that specialized expertise - in credit-card processing, for instance - in world markets." And inevitably, as business evolves and industries undergo fundamental change,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
Obama last spring, they called for an end to the anti– Wall Street rhetoric coming from Washington. In the absence of a sincere recommitment to self-governance and organizational responsibility, the rhetoric is unlikely to abate. A visible show of leadership that goes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
career success. In fact, I believe that it enhances career success, because fundamentally business succeeds or fails because of people, because of relationships. If you can manage to stay focused on your career goals by being there for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
demonstrates how they can become embedded in a company's ongoing reporting, budgeting, and transfer-pricing systems, especially in companies with new enterprise resource planning capabilities. The authors note, "Only if managers understand the View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
focusing on to this end: information technology, entrepreneurial studies, globalization, and community standards. Of the latter, he said: "We are working to instill in every member of our community the fundamental values of integrity,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
recognition program. The fundamental premise of the program is that people who are about to do bad things act differently from people who are doing normal things. And as a result, we’ve caught several people who have been either fugitives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Advertising today has to be so entertaining, interesting, and useful that you won’t want to live without it. That’s a fundamentally different premise than the one advertising was founded on: I can pay money and put myself in front of you.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
method courses, both immersive and extended, are offered during the second year of the program. HBS is extending its reach to new audiences through HBX, a unique online learning platform. CORe offers a primer on the fundamentals of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
powerful in the world's great capitals, Wolfensohn might nonetheless rank his interactions with village chiefs and local leaders as among the most rewarding of his career. For even as he enjoyed a remarkable career in the private sector, Wolfensohn had always displayed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
There’s a fundamental tradeoff: Should I learn something about demand by offering a price that might be suboptimal, or should I offer the price that I think is optimal now to maximize revenue? Our research shows retailers a way to balance... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
proud and... happiness. This was really confirmed by how the family Perzyk collaborated to all this event. Perzyk: It taught me that people are fundamentally kind, and that's something that bears repetition. Not just for this moment in... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
lifestyle is just incredibly pleasant,” says Gordon. “But I think as Michael and I were taking stock of that, I really had this feeling that this is not what I actually want to get out of life.” There was this chance to not only be on the frontier, but to live in a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
creative when they are engaged in aspects of their work that they find intrinsically rewarding? Yes, and that is probably the most fundamental and enduring discovery of my thirty-year career of studying creativity. But “enjoyment”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Venture: A Welcome Assist
developed a machine with a key for each letter. The first typewriter ultimately led to the keyboard, which became fundamental to digital communications and, well, modern life. It’s one example from a long history of devices originally... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
even more fundamental reason: “I have a deep connection with candy,” she adds with a laugh. The company’s current product mix features dark chocolate–covered cacao nibs (intense little hits that weigh in at one to two calories each) and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
And it involves fundamental change. It also involves the leaders changing themselves. I think it’s hard work, but my hope is to convince people that it’s worth the effort. Flint: Do you think all businesses should have a deep purpose,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
amplifies the fundamental desire of people around the world to look their best. In so doing, the book provides a unique lens on globalization and offers fascinating accounts of individual entrepreneurs, the evolution of beauty ideals, and... View Details