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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 29 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 29, 2006

for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of her masculine, aggressive style in the classroom. As she begins to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    George A. Schaefer

    production. Though Schaefer’s plans didn’t return Caterpillar to the extremely profitable position it had previously enjoyed, his hard work at reorganization helped the company turn a View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • 02 Feb 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

    Buffett), (3) altruism, where the primary purpose is to serve (customers, employees, etc.) first and assume that profit will follow (as at Nordstrom), and (4) heroism, typically involving grand plans to... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 01 Dec 2014
    • News

    Case Study: Growing the Family Business

    centers in the Cleveland suburbs. The first has been open two years; the second is almost a year old and approaching operational breakeven—about the same timeline as the first center. The team expects to open a new center later this month and View Details
    Keywords: childcare; Finance
    • 22 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

    Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs... View Details
    Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    He Loves New York

    New York magazine lacks in profit and prospects, it makes up for in the social cachet it can bestow on the owner in the media and cultural capital of the United States,” opined the New York Times (December 17, 2003). Well, maybe so, but... View Details
    • 24 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 24, 2006

      Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jul 2018
    • Op-Ed

    4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

    harness the power of business to address some of society’s most significant problems, not as a separate part of employees’ lives—businessperson by day, volunteer by night—but as an integrated whole, working in a profitable company that... View Details
    Keywords: by George Serafeim
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    Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Elizabeth Teisberg show how to move health care toward positive-sum competition that delivers lasting benefits for all. Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R.... View Details

      James R. Moffett

      In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion... View Details
      Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

        Leonard Abramson

        Abramson accurately predicted the need for prepaid medical plans to manage spiraling medical spending in the 60’s and 70’s and founded U. S. Healthcare to capitalize on this opportunity. Abramson built a fast-growing and extremely View Details
        Keywords: Healthcare

          Elizabeth E. Boit

          specialized in the production of women’s undergarments that were eventually sold by Lord & Taylor department stores. Boit was considered a maverick in improving the working conditions for her mostly female employees. She even instituted a View Details
          Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
          • 01 Oct 2002
          • News

          Making a Difference

          Haacker: strategic planning in Alaska's Denali National Park. photo courtesy John Haacker Dimas: reaching a wider audience at Boston's Gardner Museum. photo courtesy Jennifer Dimas It's not often that an MBA student's research involves a... View Details
          • 01 Dec 2008
          • News

          Alumni Books

          plans that are easy to apply. It highlights why marketing plans matter and where they go wrong and explains how to create a powerful plan that will help build a strong, View Details
          Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
          • 01 Dec 2010
          • News

          Additional alumni books for your consideration.

          as money-market funds. Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink: Why 40% of Your Business Is Unprofitable, and How to Fix It by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes (DBA ’80) (Penguin Portfolio) Given the uncomfortable truth that it’s possible, even easy,... View Details
          Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
          • 01 Apr 2014
          • Research & Ideas

          When Do Alliances Make Sense?

          treasure trove that could help businesses plan their alliance strategy. “If an alliance is so much better, why isn't everything done by alliance?” Firms often ask this question when considering a large project. It can be advantageous to... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities
          • 29 May 2006
          • Research & Ideas

          Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

          competitive, and yet Fresco's attention was diverted by investments in technology and Web presence, as well as by acquisitions meant to diversify the company's portfolio. After the carmaker slid into a protracted liquidity crisis, Fresco and his board supported a... View Details
          Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
          • 23 Jan 2007
          • First Look

          First Look: January 23, 2007

          are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 01 Apr 1999
          • News

          Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

          technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples... View Details
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