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- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
support the creation of highly differentiated products. It also deals with issues of change in an already successful context, and of managing highly creative staff who are vital to a company's business model. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Weiss. Providing that service, however, will mean a dramatic reorganization of the company’s sales model. When dealing with slow-moving city governments, perhaps the last thing you want to do is provide a large range of options.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
appellate court on Skilling’s appeal is near. A great deal is at stake with the court’s ruling. For Skilling, it will either seal his fate as a convicted criminal or open up possibilities for further vindication. (In the 2006 trial, nine... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
company can ever be completely safe — even if a firm disconnects from the Internet, unauthorized personnel or disgruntled employees inside the company’s facilities can figure out ways to access its computers — some firms, especially those View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
of: how do these groups work, what deals do they look at, and ultimately do they make a difference for the companies they fund? Q: Is crowdfunding a threat to more traditional notions of venture capital? A: There have been a lot of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
Equipped with rubber bands, the bags un-fussily but effectively deal with garbage in a weightless environment. "It sounds silly, but trash in space is a big deal," he said. "Sometimes the best technology is the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
wield a great deal of influence in policy—especially local policy—and local policy is where all the action is in education." In Denver, for example, business leaders partnered with educators to lobby for an increase in taxes to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
our siblings or in-laws any less difficult to deal with over the course of the following year. ) Although people believe that having money leads to happiness, our research suggests that this is only the case if at least some of that money... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
since a few studies examining the earliest offerings in the 1980s," says Lerner. "Instead, broad claims are being based on a few highly visible failures, such as Refco, or else analyses of a handful of recent offerings." Details Of A View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits of the person advancing them?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
century." And respondents seemed largely in agreement that Vicente Fox is well equipped to help foster a serious discussion of ways of dealing with the labor migration that will take place one way or another between the two... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
writing a founders’ agreement. You’ll learn tactics for dealing with difficult situations, like firing an employee, pivoting your business model, or selling/closing the business. The course supplements case studies and discussions with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
deal with financial matters, but later on the federal government and NASA administrators decided that managers should have total budget responsibility. "It was very important that I had gone to HBS, because I already had the skills, so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
obtain patents of questionable merit that force other firms to pay a royalty, which in turn restricts the resources they have available for research. Similarly, some royalty demands are no better than extortion. For instance, someone has been issued a series of patents... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
Capital Partners. "A lot of noise has been eliminated. The people I deal with are true believers." His company is "not looking for quick flips. We're willing to roll up our sleeves." The growing field of photonics will... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code
for incoming students already in a relationship is to make sure you are intentionally carving out time for the two of you to be together once school starts. First semester can be very busy and you have to deal with competing priorities.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Despite those accomplishments, however, his first application to the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) was turned down. "I had one year to deal with my failure," Safin relates. He used that time to... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
his talents in a smaller operation. He became president of Custom-Made Packaging, Inc., working out a financing deal that he gradually converted into a majority stake. Within seven years, he had turned the firm around and sold it to... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all members of society stand as moral equals in relation to one another and that the state has a duty to recognize and protect that equal standing both in its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne