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- 01 Feb 2001
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as by the innovative technology that makes them possible. Companies must learn to build and foster these relationship networks because they engender speedy and seamless interaction, encourage creativity and collaboration, and release the...
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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
the new top band leaves, because they have optionality. And so we do have this quicksand that we're sucking ourselves down into, for very seemingly logical reasons, that creates a system failure and continues to suck down the labor...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
approach. The authors draw on years of research and teaching to deliver a truly interactive learning experience. The case studies cover all areas of corporate finance, including capital structure, financing needs, and project and company...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
California, headquarters to learn how he turned a struggling Bay Area ice-cream business into the nation’s leading producer. Today, as chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Rogers, 63, presides over a $2 billion global...
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- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
Achievement Award recipients to share a failure they experienced and what they learned from it. Their stories show how the "F" word can be an integral part of success, shaping who we are and the organizations where we work. Photos by...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
life; move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential; discover the one thing that influences behavior more than anything...
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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
residents, Crockett learned that those who could shop outside their neighborhoods were often conflicted about it. "Many felt that not only was it inconvenient, but it didn't get money circulating in the neighborhood, and therefore, the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
herd of elephants in Ghana? Working for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) might seem like a logical step, but Andrew Murphy (MBA ’07), director of strategy, research, and development at the WWF’s Markets Group, would disagree. He insists his...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Strategy is About People
Jay Light played a number of key roles in McArthur’s Deanship. (He also served as first lieutenant to Kim Clark, who directly succeeded McArthur as Dean; when Clark assumed the presidency of Brigham Young University–Idaho, Light was his View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
believe as if you were an owner? (2) Do you take action based on those beliefs? (3) Do you focus on adding value to others and take responsibility for the effect of your actions on others? Leadership is a lifelong journey of learning for...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
has also made the most of joint ventures, initially a 1993 deal that enabled Ford to manufacture and market the Escort in India. “We were then making open-top Jeeps and didn’t have a clue how to make a mass-market car,” he says. “Thanks to a decadelong alliance with...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
trying to move the basic building-block skills out of the required curriculum and into prematriculation. Our goal is to free up time for students to delve more deeply into the economic logic required to solve problems and into the larger...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
value of “likes.” The evidence often cited to support that is to look at people who have liked Starbucks, for example, compared with people who have not. The assumption is that people who have liked Starbucks spend more money there. The critical flaw in that View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
thought that would be a fun data set to collect—as I go from single, to engaged, to married, to father, to retired, how does my lifestyle change? Morrell: Paul, this is now sort of like an eight-year long longitudinal study, right? What have you View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
logically and ‘toned down’ my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I realized that...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
approach present? Is there an underlying logic and method to his approach that, well beyond the diplomacy of the 1970s, offers practical guidance for meeting today’s negotiation challenges—from diplomacy to business, finance, and law? By...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers...
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