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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a German subsidiary under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. To successfully reorganize as a going concern, the company sought to raise over $8 billion in a super-priority... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
were you doing when you heard the news? Merton: I was just about ready to leave for an early morning flight to New York. The phone rang in my apartment at about quarter to six. I could easily have been out the door. I answered the phone,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia should absolutely not be in the cell phone business. (Nokia... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Umeda visits. Sato-san’s right lung has failed; morphine helps ease the pain, but it’s hard not to worry as the weekend nears. The clinic is always a phone call away, Dr. Umeda reassures them. Matsubara is one of eight clinics View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
company operation or process." "I think of intrapreneurship as an attitude or spirit that involves creating something new," she says. The General Motors Saturn and the Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter computer printer, for example, were both... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
funding. Guided by cofounders Sapone and Beck, the service currently operates in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. It wasn’t the only great idea to come out of the initial Lockdown. “At the end of the week we were very sure this... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
seen a variation on this story? Getting the Bosses' Approval From Ted Watson The general idea—hardly unique to us—was to do business consistently across all of our operating units. We would have the same approach to conducting any... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
long-running stories, it is often the episodes that take place off the beaten track that most capture the imagination. Some classmates may check in only once or twice in their careers, while other reports might appear only because a class secretary made a chance,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
aid in the Delhi region. As noted in a recent article in India Today, Pasricha’s involvement was spurred by a mid-April phone call from a friend’s wife “who was desperate to find oxygen for her hospitalized husband.” Pasricha has been... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
do have so few opportunities in today's world to do that kind of work. It seems we always have our phones with us and our work with us, and it gets harder and harder to step out of that, I think. DiDonna: One of the questions I often get... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
communicating, such as letters and phone calls. Robert C. Berner (MBA '36), who has served as class secretary for 43 years, is in regular contact with his classmates. "The class is my extended family," Berner says. "Not many days go by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
changing environment with the growing acceptance of online retailing that empowered customers by providing greater price transparency and more options. Marketing channels and communication touch points continued to shift. Home Depot's leadership grappled with the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
technology and processes to support customers that align with their entrepreneurial culture. If you are a professional today buying from Home Depot, an app on your phone lets you order directly from the job site and gives you the option... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
was always trying to come back to that and find answers that fit within their needs that also fit in the needs of the others. You don't learn those things at a negotiation table. You learn a bit of it. A lot of that comes through talking over coffee, talking on the... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
business. Often I help clients find love in a different package than they envisioned initially, but they end up happy. Can you explain? Last week I had a very successful CEO come to me and ask for help in finding a particular type of woman. We started off with a View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
suppliers; for example, easy tasks like determining whether the supplier is a bona fide business entity, or cross-checking the supplier's street address with its phone number and tax ID number. These very obvious and easy things haven't... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
car care. Acquiring eight auto shops in Utah in 1979, he launched Jiffy Lube International Inc. (JLI), which today operates more than 1,300 stores nationwide through franchised and company-owned service centers. In 1990, Hindman sold JLI... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace