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- 01 Jun 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles
pressure is the fear of losing an adequately performing CEO. To make sure this does not happen, compensation committees rely on surveys by compensation consultants about CEO pay in similar companies but without regard to company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
to his future. He came to HBS at the suggestion of former Boston Bruin Gordon Kluzak (MBA '98), who had made a similar transition several years earlier. Baumgartner shifted from the NHL rink to the HBS classroom with relative ease. While... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
compare your name to existing and pending trademarks, based on a variety of characteristics, including phonetic similarity, similarity of goods, and status of existing trademark applications and registrations: “We’re capturing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
similar opportunity. Best to have an intense focus and evolve your software in a rapid fashion. It is very common for software companies to start with smaller customers and work their way up. While it is harder (and takes longer) to sell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a failure to question two-and-a-half decades of practice,” he notes. “Similar patterns of thinking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
10,000 patients at less than 50 cents per patient. The experience convinced me that the future of cost-effective health-care delivery in developing countries, especially for chronic diseases, is through the mobile phone. My cofounder, Michal Depa, had View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
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History’s Future
Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of Arabia and the East to the customers of the... View Details
- 10 May 2019
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Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
Kasseem Dean (OPM 50, 2017), known in the music world as Swizz Beatz, was used to seeing Gordon Parks’ photographs in meetings with business partners and at the homes of friends who were not African American. It was far more unusual to see the artwork in front of the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
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A Bid for the Future
it,” says Moret. “But what really matters is creating a great operating environment for companies: stable and attractive tax and regulatory climate, outstanding talent, workforce development.” The 14-month Amazon bid process was both familiar and unprecedented, Moret... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking
venture capital firm Tech Square Ventures, sees a solution in the efficiency gains that widespread new technologies inevitably achieve and the tech sector’s embrace of renewable energy. Experience thus far supports Nussey’s view. Similar... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
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Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the heavier vehicles created more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe has a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes
market so that the venture capitalists can cash out their investments. To have a stock market, you need reliable financial reporting, reputable auditing bodies, and an independent financial press. Creating institutions similar to those we... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
In each case, she noted, contemporary reactions to the new frontier followed a similar pattern. The commercial opportunity attracts pioneers, some of whom resort to piracy to seize their claims. This leads to the assumption that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale
Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly since the project could inspire similar such developments. (In fact, two other projects are... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow HBS faculty member Mike Luca had a View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In August, about one hundred students from the September cohort were able to sharpen their analytical skills, review accounting, and get ready for the rigorous program to follow. We'll have a similar program for the January cohort in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA
existed had we been able to set up our own learning teams. We may have self-selected people with similar backgrounds. What aspects of the learning team experience will be useful after you leave HBS? Amyn Pesnani: At our meetings, we would... View Details