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Sebastien D'Incau

Chances are (metaphorically speaking), Sebastien D'Incau has been in your home. As a marketing strategist and planner with Procter & Gamble, Sebastien worked on a number or products familiar to consumers worldwide, including the... View Details

21 Dec 2018
Blog Post

First Look: September 15

companies have a sense of mission enabling them to deliver what their customers want in a way that is significantly better than the competition. As a formula for the future, it brings together the necessity of financial success... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

product development team is the right exit strategy for their start-up. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/yahoo-both-sides-of-the-stamped-deal/an/814051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-084 School Specialty, Inc. Set in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

School for alumni that can be taken on the road. The presentation was launched at a number of HBS clubs this spring and received positive response. It can be updated easily to ensure that the most current information is included. In... View Details

Keywords: Susan Luick Good; HBS Alumni Association; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that no one else does” That's exactly what Cohen has been doing for the last three years in the MBA field course Stock Pitching, which he co-teaches with Christopher J. Malloy, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

which fired Condo’s imagination. He was also excited by the concepts in HBS professor Michael Porter’s watershed 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “My decision to study at Harvard was inspired by the idea of teaching and doing research that might increase... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

02 Dec 2018
News

A Chance to Thrive

after HBS and then joined Lehman Brothers, where she cofounded a group that focused on developing strategic opportunities for women and minority-owned financial services firms. At work as well as through her philanthropic activities,... View Details

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these channels and explain regional heterogeneity in the effects of RER changes in terms of differences in export intensity, import... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

Former President & CEO, eBay Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Princeton University, 1977 A.B., Economics SELECTED PREVIOUS POSITIONS Hasbro, General Manager FTD , CEO Disney, Senior Vice President Bain... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held... View Details

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

to let customers acquire points or miles or any loot unconnected to the product they are using . . . It's about customers and suppliers caring for each other's success." As Alan de Winter put it, "A consistently well-delivered... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Oct 2013
News

Searching for a Better Society

experience I have had," he says. At 44, Dumon has had more experience than most. A self-described "Internet product guy," he has known both success and failure, and he believes that failure can be a good teacher. "Once, when we tried an... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Isaac Robinson | MBA

modern society. Whether that means using graphs to optimize meeting scheduling, auctions to estimate how a product will be received by the public, or fair allocation rules to determine funding for local schools, the course showed me that... View Details

2017
Book

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details

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March 2020
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Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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First National City Bank Operating Group (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Growth in demands on the bank's "back office" required a totally new approach to management. New stress on systems orientation, objectives, measurement, process design and control has resulted in lower costs, fewer people, and higher quality. Also resulted in fear,... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Outcome or Result; Banking Industry

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