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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
that may have simply been terrible situations in which the coach had very little chance of success. For example, in his first opportunity as an NFL head coach, Carroll lasted just one season as coach of the New View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
like Boston Properties and Vornado. Trump is primarily a branding operation. There are many sectors in real estate. Hospitality is one of them. In hotels, there are usually three parts to every deal. Usually, there’s one entity that owns... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
aims to make a one-time sale and hence can be quite insistent. This is the door-to-door salesman and the canvasser. Then there is the relationship-oriented salesperson. The classic instance of this was the traveling salesman who worked for a View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
as in two-sided assignment problems, the payoffs of a matching can be divided between the agents. We take a similar approach to one-sided assignment problems as Sasaki (1995) for two-sided assignment problems, and we analyze various desirable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
season ticket sales and sponsorships, actually improved. O'Neil was recently named CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment or HBSE. A holding company that's comprised of several sports properties including the 6ers, the View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Sorenstam didn't win, what measure would capture the sense of success that the public and this athlete clearly felt? There were many scores out there: David Owen of the New York Times summarized her success... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
put luggage on wheels and they changed the nature of how people travel. Now I drag it around. Those were two things that existed, right? It wasn't a new technology. It wasn't some new intellectual View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
unexpectedly offered Williams an ad agency internship at the conclusion of his first year. Building on that 2004 summer experience, he’s headed for an advertising job in New York City upon graduation.... View Details
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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
sixteenth to nineteenth century prints on money and finance from which this exhibit is drawn was given to the Kress Library of Business and Economics in 1975 by the New York firm of Arnhold and S.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
grow a successful company, observes Deborah A. Farrington (MBA 1976), the founder and cochairman of StarVest Partners in New York City. “We are back to the reality that it takes seven to eight years to build... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
reach to Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area, to make it easier to match jobs with job seekers. As the company grows, Sam envisions launching across the United States, starting with Austin and New View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make family businesses among the most powerful and influential... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
customers and auction houses set for themselves that are influenced by those educators." Those prices anchors will still be in place to a degree because Marina Picasso's collection, after all, still carries her grandfather's legacy with it. But according to an... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
Ballou-Aares told the Financial Times. HBS Professor Michael Porter, an advisor to Leadership Now who also signed the letter, noted that “business leaders need to throw their support [behind] democratic processes at a time when public tensions have risen.” As the View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
months later, he was introduced to Beverly Sills of the New York City Opera, where the orchestra was about to go on strike. They needed someone with experience in labor relations. When Sills asked Weinstein... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon