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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

United Fruit cleared and planted undeveloped tracts of land, created extensive railroad and port facilities, and operated a large steamship unit known as “The Great White Fleet.” The company came to own or... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

in the world. I really thought I’d won the lottery.” Early in his career, however, Kim realized something: He wasn’t certain of the finance industry’s inherent value to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

time to think about acquiring [Company B]? Diagnosis: How would the acquisition affect [Company A’s] competiveness in the industry? Description: How is [Company A] thinking about financing View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

also find important insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. I firmly believe that the template for business education can be very broad.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jul 2023
Blog Post

How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS

about potentially not finding an internship. As it turned out, I shouldn’t have worried so much. It’s completely possible to find a great internship if you’re proactive, thoughtful, and willing to trust the... View Details

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

it,” says Harvard Business School Professor Sandra Sucher. By contrast, she notes, when Pinterest proactively moved to keep anti-vaccination activists from spreading misinformation on the site during the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

question of exactly which points are memorized by the model, and why, is an area of research that is still pretty much unsolved and one of great interest to me.” That answer also will be of interest to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Skydeck - Alumni

education system Carbon's Second Act A startup employing nature's C02 recycling model—and the necessity of sweeping, speedy scaling Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains Scaling... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

does one lead at your company? How do you give feedback? How do you establish an inclusive culture, develop employees, and create a great place to work? Your job is to answer these questions and provide managers View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

What if more managers at big corporations channeled some of the same magic that helped Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lead their startups to great success? Large companies are actually... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

that it would lose a great deal if its bid failed. Because its threat to counter your bid is not credible, you decide you will place a bid. The day before you are to announce your bid, your competitor's CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

itself as an opportunity to rethink our journey and decide where we wanted to go. We had great support from the Dean and the Division of Research. Under these circumstances and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
Supplement

United Rentals (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details

Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America

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05 Jul 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

information that produces decisions Execution is the basic ingredient that makes a great leader." On the other hand, Philip Derrow argued, "Executive intelligence,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

find creative ways to use it, will have an advantage in the job market. If I knew then what I know now: “When you’re a student you always think, ‘I’m going to have a great career. It’s going to be... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

window into the young online-software market. He saw a need for a product similar to Hotmail that was tailored for businesses, a web-based email solution with calendaring and scheduling capabilities. “I thought it was a View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

exclusively. There's a lot of other great things that happen in baseball. Stolen bases, triples, doubles, great defensive plays, shortstop diving in the hole. And so when you... View Details

24 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

David Brumley of Carnegie Mellon University

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details

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