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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
the work, not to mention the volume, is staggering. Just a few of the actions taken by the agency this past summer include: Licensed a new vaccine, ACAM2000, to protect against smallpox. Warned consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested from an area of the southern...
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- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
could you send an email? Rather than select in an ad-hoc way, we need to choose the tool that facilitates work. Blanding: You also talk about strategies for working with global teams. What are your top tips for collaborating across...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel. Gabarro and Kotter provide valuable guidelines for building this essential relationship—including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
insights; describes how the technique should be adapted for use in an entrepreneurial context; and offers tips and cautions about applying the technique. The techniques include customer surveys, usability tests, market trials, split...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
work life. Assume that we are slowly progressing toward a tipping point at which sitting female CEOs will pave the way for other women, just as their male counterparts have done for men. The result may be an accelerating pace toward a...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
expectations were." Tips For Aspiring Disrupters Just like other industries, computers and brokerage among them, the venture capital industry itself is also ripe for disruption, he said. While odds always favor the incumbent when a...
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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
are doing creative things or learned from mistakes and are willing to share tips and tricks to avoid pitfalls as you scale. While it may make you feel vulnerable, asking your investors for guidance around your own personal development...
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by Julia Austin
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
basis, the riskless asset is not a nominal annuity or Treasury bond, but rather inflation-protected annuities and Treasury bonds (also known as TIPS). The demand for TIPS has grown considerably since they were created in 1997 when current...
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by Ann Cullen
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
recruiting mistakes." Now Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers) has come forth with the proposition that there may be some jobs for which it is impossible to hire with any confidence. As he puts it,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
high commitment and broad responsibilities, the leadership intended to provide a level of client service that would justify premium rates. However, the system is not working. Issues include: tips are lower than expected, reducing expected...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
You've held your own while negotiating dozens of successful deals. Even so, you want to take your game to the next level. What's the next step? There are plenty of guides that offer tips on negotiation strategies. As useful as these are...
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by Julia Hanna
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
to give their dog to the shelter, we can help them skip the shelter and directly rehome their dog into a new loving family,” says Exley, noting that the program also helps families follow best practices about rehoming their dogs via financial and informational...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
Morgan Chase with regard to Dodd-Frank. It is intended as a companion to "The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)," HBS No. 309-001, to facilitate class discussion and, as such, provides only an overview of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
people who work in this field, and they develop such knowledge of these companies that they start to get a sense of something that's not right and then they follow up. In over a third of these situations it appears that the press did the legwork, whether through...
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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
this kind of enterprise "is the worst business in the world. Period. The end." He was smart and ambitious enough as a young man to get himself into the Harvard Business School—though he also managed to lose his student loan on the first day of class by...
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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
Heineken in the Netherlands, or Cargill or Mars in the United States are the tip of a huge iceberg of successful and long-lived family firms worldwide. Even today around a third of Fortune 500 companies are family controlled. Business and...
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by Cynthia Churchwell