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  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

David Chang. “Athletic’s play was to say, ‘You should be proud to be drinking this because you’re not compromising your personal or athletic performance.’ That was really different for the category,” Wilson observes. Athletic went from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

risk-averse than they might otherwise have been, which can result in a lower exit value. An experienced investor explained, "When an entrepreneur has all of their own personal wealth or their family's wealth tied up in a deal, they... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/InformationDisclosure.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-412 Nasty Gals Do It Better In 2006, Sophia Amoruso started Nasty Gal, an eBay boutique selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

as customer acquisition, on-time delivery, developing new services and products, and running efficiently. But operating performance is also a result; it is derivative of human performance. Human performance involves many things but is primarily dependent on three: the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

One Man Crime Wave

a textile mill, and issues of whether or not to keep or sell the mill, protect the employees and community, and maintain or forfeit personal integrity. In these, and in his thrillers, MacDonald clearly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

involved in we won't let fail. Our personalities won't let that fail. That's a poor personality trait in the venture capital community. There are very different skill sets that you bring." Rowe agreed.... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 17 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the best attributes and the best price View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Troubled World Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Even can-do achievers can feel overwhelmed by big societal problems and the challenges they pose to business and personal life.... View Details
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Harvard Business School

cell phone and television network business, and started his own phone company. Ed Jones Jr. MBA 1972 In 1973, the Harvard Business Review published Edward Jones's personal account, “What It's Like to Be a Black Manager.” At the time he... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability includes personal development exercises. Students discuss examples from their own past when they failed to rise to a moral challenge, as well as examples when someone led them to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • Person Page

Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

    Helena Rubinstein

    insistence, only women with professional training in cosmetics could sell her products, and this part of the business grew to be the largest. Retaining total control of her company until her death, Rubinstein’s business savvy afforded her... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • 12 Aug 2010
    • News

    You Can’t Take It with You

    that made me wonder if we’re in the early stages of a cultural shift to downsizing, minimalism, and generally questioning if personal wealth, public success, and material goods lead to lasting happiness. In the July-August issue of HBR,... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Personal Services; Personal Services
    • 19 Oct 2011
    • News

    A Good Look

    appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers don’t want that in their... View Details
    Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

      Melvin R. Goodes

      Goodes grew Warner-Lambert’s market value from $9 billion in 1991 to almost $60 billion in 1999. He helped the pharmaceutical company become a major player in the prescription drug industry and is responsible for striking a deal with Pfizer in 1996 to View Details
      Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
      • 01 Dec 2017
      • News

      2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life

      Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide... View Details
      Keywords: Omer Ismail (MBA 2007), chief commercial officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the firm’s digital consumer financial services business; Finance
      • 23 Jan 2008
      • Op-Ed

      A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

      and that was not expected to reap mega-returns. Indeed, many homeowners, coping with repairs, renovations, and taxes, saw their homes as moneypits. Home As Investment Over the past decade, home became an exciting investment, more a place to buy and View Details
      Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate
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