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- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
frameworks, business and organizational contexts, and the decision-maker’s point of view. At the same time, you also need to think about ways of adapting the case method to make it more skill-based and reflective.” (see sidebar, page 40)...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
Fristrom (MBA 2008), managing partner, TerraNova Capital Advisors “Much like parenting your own children, an aging parent makes you realize how much is out of your control. Often plans must be altered to adapt to the changing environment...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
organizational awareness and identity. Concludes Thomas, "There's still a long way to go; a lot of firms remain ambivalent about adapting to the new realities, let alone embracing them. But I believe that among leading-edge companies,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a result, the market’s most...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
handle account processing. "We're pooling the assets of small, low-income consumers and adapting 401(k) processing machinery to serve them. We're also working on regulatory clearance with the SEC, so in essence, we're trying to solve all...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change....
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customer,” he states. Adapting and growing through change is one of the business world’s oldest mandates, but manufacturing offers the most dramatic examples of what can happen when companies succeed or fail. Ten years from now, suggests...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
pioneering software company whose goal was to empower restaurateurs, through the use of data, to enhance the guest experience. Such renowned chefs as Tom Colicchio, Daniel Boulud, and Guy Fieri are using his programs to collect data to View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
virtually carbon neutral, thus showcasing sustainable technologies adapted for the world’s tropical zones. That could add transformative value to the tourism industry — estimated to be 10 percent of global GDP — in many areas of the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
a revolving crew of geologists, biologists, and oceanographers who collect and analyze data from every dive. They are studying the forbidding environments and the biodiversity that thrives in these places and the ways in which life can View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
part, Chinese reformers who negotiated the terms of the WTO agreement made a calculated gamble that it would provide the necessary leverage to force policy changes necessary for homegrown businesses — including SOEs and TVEs — to adapt...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
transaction platforms, and hybrid platforms. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all. 4) Old “dogs” can learn new tricks: conventional companies can adapt to a platform world with a buy, build, or belong strategy. 5) Platforms are...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
companies became increasingly concerned that while the core claims, and usually the core technologies, of brands had to be the same worldwide, the form in which such claims and technologies were delivered, whether in jars or creams, and the scents which were employed,...
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- 22 Aug 2020
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Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands is opening a KFC store every day. But this is not the KFC known in America. A recent case study written by Professor David Bell and Agribusiness Program director Mary Shelman (MBA ’87) reveals how the...
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- 25 Mar 2019
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Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is meeting the market’s changing...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
an added feature that enables it to remain powerful even as it is transformed. “When it’s advantageous,” Quelch explains, “the U.S. system can be very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices in other countries, and it View Details
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