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  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

exceeding. But the price for his little white lie was extremely high: The company based its demand planning on his sales forecast and consequently ran out of its core product in one of its largest markets at the height of the holiday View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

High Fives

Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at... View Details
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Web

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
  • 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
    • 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
    • 11 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

    a struggle, but sometimes a rewarding one. "I don’t think you have to trust just the people who look familiar to you," Wiley said. "Even if you’re the only person of color, that doesn’t mean you can’t test the trust ... or... View Details
    Keywords: by Carrie Levine

      Reuben Mark

      When Mark took over in 1984, the consumer goods giant was in the midst of trying to reinvent itself. The company had grown tremendously in the 70s through a series of less than stellar acquisitions and one of Mark’s first tasks was to View Details
      Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

        Gilbert Colgate

        Colgate merged with the Peet Company and B. J. Johnson, maker of Palmolive soap, the largest selling soap brand in America in the early 1900s. Colgate led the newly merged Colgate, Palmolive-Peet Company with assets of $63 million. The... View Details
        Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

          Estee Lauder

          Lauder built one of the most successful and exclusive cosmetic companies in the world. She was the pioneer of the “free sample” strategy, which marked a new era of salesmanship. To retain their aura of exclusivity, her products were sold in Saks Fifth Avenue and in... View Details
          Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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