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Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog

standard variety and some will be “live cases” where the leaders from family businesses will be integrated throughout the session. Most cases will include a guest speaker who will share their leadership experiences and answer questions.... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point

countries like Rwanda, and she also sees an opportunity to move into other sectors with similar economic and gender dynamics, such as tea, chocolate, and shea butter. Tipping your farmer may feel unusual to American consumers today, Nyamumbo acknolwledges, “but I see... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

Top MBA Program seeks applicants from all industries and backgrounds. Minimum requirements: demonstrated leadership potential, high standard of academic achievement. Must be able to lead through others and guide an organization through... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Douglas S. Fearing Publication:Transportation Science (forthcoming) Abstract When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2017
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The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

attention and publicity, but comprises only a small number of companies. Should we be focusing on broader indexes such as the Standard & Poor’s 500 or the Wilshire 5000? LV: For investors who want broad exposure to the market, the Dow... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

women in their second half of life. Multinationals like Vodafone and Santander Bank are setting a new standard by creating meaningful benefits to support menopausal employees. The rest of us should catch up without delay. About the... View Details

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

variability you may have introduced that required the service provider to deviate from standard operating practices. Related Program 7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice or Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) This book argues that boards enable organizations to excel only when directors go beyond their standard duties of oversight... View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

more discretion than historically afforded in financial reporting. Ex post, managers can claim their unit value estimates were not realized due to factors outside their control, claims that are difficult to objectively falsify. In promulgating SFAS 142, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 May 2010
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What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

23 Aug 2004
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Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the development of technical View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American capitalism has always been... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

firm-wide diversification; in contrast, a high net value of within-firm coordination is correlated with centralization. Variation across establishments within firms is widespread: most firms are neither fully centralized nor fully decentralized. Delegation patterns are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2011
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Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

professional group's distinct standards can create a false impression that all is well. Yet the Murdoch case teaches us that nesting dolls require our full attention. Although these configurations may seem nimble, they can also be highly... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

01 Aug 2005
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How to Choose the Best Deal

working with a dealer or making subtle suggestions. Or he could decide that his advantage lies in standard talks, since creative solutions might be missed in a straight price deal. As a negotiator, work to define the process before... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

13 Dec 2004
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How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

stretch them. Honesty. Companies need honest assessments of reality. These can be gained through anonymous surveys. Higher standards. For organizations on neither winning or losing streaks, but that win some/lose some, one secret is to create higher View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Course Number 2077 Professor Leslie Perlow Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Enrollment in this course, as of June 6, is now by standard lottery utilizing EC Toolkit. Please... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

feet at all may rank among his greatest achievements. The simple acts of standing and walking represent triumph for Massie, as does the fact that he is even alive today. Fittingly, his life's work is all about “standing up,” as he forcefully advocates for higher View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

18 Sep 2006
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When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

deficit as an economically meaningless figure is not a new position, the authors say. What is different about their paper is that it shows that this proposition is completely general—it applies to the standard framework for economic... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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