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MAGIC MAN: One day in 2018, Doug Duda (MBA 1985) was walking up Eighth Avenue. “A guy grabbed me from behind, which is never a welcome sensation in New York City,” he admits. “It was another guy with a white beard.” The man asked Duda to join Real Beard Santas of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Christmas; Santa; career change; food; acting

7 Mar 2022
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How to Let Go of Perfectionism

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson joins Ofosu Jones-Quartey and Leah Santa Cruz to discuss why so many of us have perfectionistic tendencies. She explains how giving ourselves permission to fail can actually lead to more success. View Details

Keywords: Psychological Safety; Personal Characteristics

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08 Dec 2017
News

How to Suppress Your Inner Scrooge

16 May 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry

through the case method? Our HBS Takeaways series is an effort to help prospective students understand life at HBS through the experiences of students who are about to graduate. Kiran Gandhi studied mathematics at Georgetown before pursuing a career in the music... View Details

Anjali M. Bhatt

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19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

carlballou Most industries are in major digital upheaval, but retail particularly seems in some kind of disruptive spin-cycle. As the retail season eneters its most crucial time of year, we take a deep breath to contemplate research from Harvard Business School on what... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

21 May 2013
News

The Link Between Super Bowl L And Asking Apple For Money

12 May 2016
Video

2016 G&WS: Aida Hurtado Presents “The Hidden (Racial) Injuries of Discourse: Women Talking to Women”

11 Oct 2016
News

Baker Library Exhibit Focuses On Polaroid & Edwin Land

29 Jul 2022
News

As Twitter, Amazon, and Meta Scale Back Offices, Some See Opportunities To Leverage Remote Work Advantages

27 Feb 2018
News

Make Tools Like Slack Work for Your Company

04 Aug 2017
News

Uber SVP of Leadership and Strategy Frances Frei live onstage on Recode Decode

01 Aug 2018
News

Inside the Emerging Economy With Millions of High-Paying Jobs

2013
Article

The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities

By: Michael Beer

Organizations underperform and sometimes fail because their leaders are unable to learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)... View Details

Keywords: Organization Alignment; Dynamic Capabilities; Organization Design; Organizational Prototyping; Organizational Silence; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Organizational Design

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14 Jan 2021
News

Intel’s ‘Chief Geek,’ Pat Gelsinger, Returns as CEO

Mattias E. Fibiger

Mattias Fibiger is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) Unit. A historian by training, he conducts research on Asia's twentieth century. He teaches in the Business, Government, and... View Details

20 Oct 2008
News

This Bailout Doesn't Pay Dividends

July 2019
Case

Christmas Inc. (A)

By: Susanna Gallani, Gregory Sabin, Lexor Adams and Nicholas Haberling

Santa Claus is facing increasing pressures to contain costs. The economic model that has worked for centuries is starting to show some cracks, to the point that he is considering outsourcing part of its toy production. Evaluating the bids his team collected from... View Details

Keywords: Costing; Production; Cost; Analysis; Decision Making; Strategy

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