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- 11 Feb 2021
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Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"People can actually build up their compassion 'muscle' and respond to others' suffering with care and a desire to help," he said. Great leaders attest that it is not a sign of weakness or relinquishing authority to be consistently kind...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
and field hospitals). In 13 years it developed from a start-up garage business into a successful firm of global reach and reputation. In 2010 its founder and CEO Philippe Prévost must decide the product and market strategy for the next...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
programs end up creating different realities for the most loyal and less loyal shoppers, emphasizing the different reasons for why customers shop at a particular store. Some unintended consequences are not a myth; retailers need to...
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- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Harvard Business School Case 307-056 GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a 25-year-old MBA named Jeff...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
http://hbr.org/2011/07/column-evolve-again/ar/1 The Paradox of Samsung's Rise Authors:Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2011) Abstract Twenty years ago, few people...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com Harvard Business School Case 309-060 Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26
different sources (e.g., food versus fire safety). Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning Authors:Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
the merchandise layout, and especially, talking with and touching potential consumers. "I'd make up every woman who stopped to look," Lauder remembered. "I would show her that a three-minute makeup could change her...
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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements....
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
Next, I show that large employers are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are headquartered in politically important states. I also find that firms that employ a larger proportion of a...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring “the freedom of all mankind.” Homer, born into the Panic of...
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- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608053 Dell Computers (B): The Transition Harvard Business School Supplement 607-081 The case presents the outcome of the (A) case and explores challenges in the PC industry View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of using the Health Buddy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC, struggling against apartheid....
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her. Swept up by hurricane-like forces—and surrounded by clippings of articles on climate change, the environment, and extreme weather—the figure at the center can be read as a casualty of inaction on climate change. KEVIN COOLEY Driggs ,...
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- 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28
businesses has reduced the company's once dynamic growth close to zero. As the newly appointed CEO, Ishrak faces the formidable challenge of restoring the company's growth. In his first 18 months as CEO, he has laid the groundwork for future growth by ramping View Details
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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
production model. Using non-traditional methods of agriculture, the land will propagate edible flora, restoring secondary forests and old pastures to their primary nature. DiBiz Global Unnikrishnan Unnithan, AMP 2015DIBIZ was founded in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Business, Energy, and Environment. High Season Wade Myers Traffic is heavy most of the day in Williston as vehicles approach the intersections of Highways 85 and 200-a major crossroads in the region. “I grew up outside Medora—it’s the...
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Approach." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. LFE-1027-97 (June 1997). Black, Fischer. "How We Came Up with the Option Formula." Journal of Portfolio Management 15, no. 2 (winter 1989): 4-8. Black, Fischer. "Interest Rates...
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