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02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

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The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill and former executive Kent Lineback discuss the steps to take and the roadblocks to avoid in order to meet that challenge. Is Groupon Good for... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an important pool of capital for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

implemented. But strong vision about the wrong decisions, such as subordinate or others' decisions, may be detrimental to strategy and its implementation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2383972 Cases & Course Materials Harvard View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

available at this time. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 916-003 Launching Yelp Reservations (A) This case presents a multi-party negotiation among Yelp, current... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

home as well, since they had come to to help with the baby, and now were staying to help with my treatment. About six months into my treatment journey, I did return back to the startup that I was working with and continued to work with... View Details

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

host of startup problems including what should be built when and at what price along with infrastructure issues. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/rawabi/an/214008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

leadership. They want to know how you figured it out when the shit hits the fan, right? DM: Right. JI: So the financial crisis was brutal. It's hard to describe how tiring, how embarrassing, how awful I felt every day. And our business... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to somehow get back to the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

“expectations of integrity and display of compassion really reflect Mercy Corps team members around the world and how they show up for work every day,” says Kordestani, cofounder of the tech startup Crowdpac and a former director at... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

in the rural areas of Georgia hit hardest by the epidemic. Fresh from a meeting with Georgia’s attorney general, business leaders, and law enforcement officials, Shaw told Langford about a presentation made by tech billionaire and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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