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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants View Details
Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • News

The Value of Valleys

running M&A and strategy for a public company and did 17 acquisitions around the globe. I think of it as kind of one View Details

    The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

    Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as... View Details
    • 09 Nov 2016
    • News

    The Seeds of Learning

    “In Chicago, one in four students are obese and we spend as a nation a quarter of trillion dollars on diabetes, and that number is growing. More... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

    as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal View Details
    Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

    predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to... View Details
    Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
    • 13 May 2013
    • News

    The Power of Three

    record, raising $4,000,835. To demonstrate their commitment and to inspire their classmates, the trio led the way with major contributions of their own. “I personally benefited from View Details
    • March 2010
    • Article

    Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

    By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
    Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Product; Microfinance; Decision Making; Policy; Welfare or Wellbeing; Gender; Power and Influence; Philippines
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    • August 2024 (Revised September 2024)
    • Case

    Dishoom: From Bombay with Love

    By: Anjali M. Bhatt and Thomas J. DeLong
    Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, co-founders of Dishoom, faced critical decisions as they looked to expand the UK-based restaurant group. Shamil, the CEO, was confident in Dishoom's potential for growth but he was concerned about preserving the culture and values centered... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; Growth And Scaling; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Growth Management; Expansion; United Kingdom
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    • 10 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

    are fired. Some may need to move to another state or another industry to find a job, and they may not find a job at the same level." The big thing is that “cash for information” may not be the right View Details
    Keywords: by April White
    • 02 Feb 2017
    • News

    Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

    how a life can be changed if you’re committed to doing it and seeing the person behind the form that we all present. “I’d say the endgame for what I do as CEO View Details
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

    Corporation as project leader of an effort to create a stand-alone word-processing system. Following a brief stint at FasFax Corporation, he... View Details
    Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
    • October 2013
    • Article

    Shattering the Myth of Separate Worlds: Negotiating Non-Work Identities at Work

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
    How much of our self is defined by our work? Fundamental changes in the social organization of work are destabilizing the relationship between work and the self. As a result, parts of the self traditionally considered outside the domain of work, i.e., "non-work"... View Details
    Keywords: Identity; Diversity; Strategy; Jobs and Positions; Work-Life Balance
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    • 2001
    • Working Paper

    Bank Capital and Risk Management: Issues for Banks and Regulators

    By: Kenneth A. Froot

    Banks and financial firms are in the process of evolving away from primary warehousers of risk to diversified originators and distributors of financial services. These changes are important for the way that financial firms think about their needs for economic... View Details

    Keywords: Bank Capital And Risk Management; Issues For Banks And Regulators; Risk Management; Governance Compliance; Capital; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • 31 May 2023
    • News

    Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

    read that by the time Black boys turn 10, society views them as potential aggressors. I remember thinking, I have three years to solve this.” A viral moment: “I just wanted to connect with people who could... View Details
    Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance
    • Web

    A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 | Baker Library

    introduced for professional use. Polaroid net sales: $13,393,259. Net profit: $597,210. 1953 Waltham, Massachusetts Polaroid begins construction of manufacturing plant on Route 128 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Polaroid net sales:... View Details
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

    spread of epidemics, reducing congestion on highways, or finding ways to detect fraudulent transactions.The trend toward people analytics, Polzer says, is a logical extension... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 2016
    • Chapter

    Unpacking the Dynamics of Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector

    By: Rebecca Henderson
    Book Abstract: The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Transformation; Australia; New Zealand; China; United States; Europe; Southeast Asia
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    • August 2013
    • Case

    HgCapital and the Visma Transaction (A)

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Karol Misztal and Joris Van Gool
    This case concerns the negotiations of a deal by HgCapital, a UK-based private equity firm, to buy Visma, ASA, a Norwegian software company. Visma has received an offer from Sage Group, a strategic acquirer. HgCapital must determine if it wants to bid and how to outbid... View Details
    Keywords: Management Buyout; Deal Structuring; Negotiations; Private Equity; Finance; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation; Strategy; Europe
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    • 23 Jul 2016
    • News

    The Art of Persuasion

    bit of consensus building and (if you want) self-motivation and drive from people, you have to get them excited about the idea. I learnt the art of persuasion in business school.” Named View Details