Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

Rosenberg: I actually had a transformational moment. I was reading David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest, which was a story about the Kennedy and Johnson's administration of the Vietnamese war. Basically Halberstam’s contention... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2000
News

Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

Vincam became ADP TotalSource, and Saladrigas, as CEO, oversees the company's twenty regional offices and over eighty thousand employees. A Man of the Year award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her social impact” by using – and in doing so risking – her status as an actress in order to fight for change. Working Knowledge A Dedication to... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

man at a welding station. "How's your daughter?" he calls to Jane as she takes a break from her sewing machine. Bullard knows most of the names of the 375 people employed by... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2017. Lauren H. Cohen : Competitor in the 2017 World's Strongest Man competition (80KG). Natalia Rigol : Recipient of a Bell Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2018. 2016 Shai Benjamin Bernstein : Selected as... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

He was a warm, kind and generous man who made friends easily, and was intensely loyal to them. It is this quality—above all others—that has endeared him to so many.” Among the many who admired and respected McArthur were legions View Details

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

the body language of one investor. So Bancel turned to the man and said, "Even though we could use your money, do not invest." The potential investors were shocked. "It's because I know it's going to be a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

or lane markings. Somehow, Enan’s approach calls to mind a balletic scene, one of thousands performed every day, in which an elderly man driving a donkey cart merges seamlessly between a minibus and a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

28 May 2019
News

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

December 2016, reached almost $20,000 in December 2017, and retreated to as low as $3,200 in December 2018.) So we called in an expert: Dianna Raedle (MBA 1993), CEO, president, and founder of Deer Isle... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

20 Dec 2016
News

Five Doctoral Students Win Prestigious Research Awards

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

Kenny: : "This flat tire needs a man," says the narrator of the Goodyear Tire commercial that aired during the inaugural Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. The ad featured a damsel in... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

19 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5

still not fully free. The first time I talked about race outside of my home was at Lanier Middle School. My class watched a documentary on the June 1998 murder of James Byrd, a 49-year-old Black View Details

April 2002
Case

Ocular

By: Paul A. Gompers, Gregor M. Andrade and Jonathan Man

Concerns the decision of Ed Kennedy, co-founder of Ocular Networks, as he decides what financing strategy his firm should take. The venture capital and public markets for telecommunications start-ups had dried up and Kennedy must decide whether to cut costs and raise... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry

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16 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Unexpected Moments at HBS

simplicity of our upbringing; stories of working summers on a farm and crowded high school basketball gymnasiums. · Sitting next to a young man who worked in... View Details

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

when bosses fail to realize that they're not communicating clearly. Kanter cites an old joke as an example: A man drives to a gas station to fill up his tank, and the attendant can't help noticing that there's a penguin in the backseat... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

its diverse geographies and business lines? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112097-PDF-ENG Man Group (A) Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. ClayHarvard Business School Case 312-128 The Man Group was a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

the United States to see what courses are being offered in the field of women and leadership. And whenever I taught the Managing Human Capital course, I surveyed my female students to ask: If I taught a course on women and leadership,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

have owned started out as a disruptive company.— Clayton M. Christensen Copying the management best practices of leading firms isn't necessarily the answer, Christensen said. When inventors in the Middle Ages tried to invent a contraption... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Coming Out and Finding Acceptance at HBS

I was a month into my first year at HBS, and I was crying in the middle of a case discussion. I didn’t think any of my 90 section mates saw, but as I left class, a man I didn’t... View Details

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