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Adam Kanner
organization to achieve this. I’m a big believer that consumer experience is 99% of what matters. That’s how Uber initially built a great brand. How do you effectively build the best possible consumer... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Williams, Brett. Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Woloson, Wendy A. In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence Through the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
missing an opportunity to turn a good business into a great one. Q: You emphasize that it's more important than ever for managers to communicate business strategy and performance goals effectively to employees. Why so? A: This is a much... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
how to develop sustainable processes for finding great ideas, driving them toward commercial success, and tracking their impact in the market and on the firm's resources. Your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
MOON: “Differentiation is not a formula. Rather, it’s a way of thinking.” Professor Youngme Moon, who teaches one of HBS’s most popular electives (Consumer Marketing), has recently published her first book. In Different: Escaping the... View Details
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Paris Wallace
toughest challenges you are facing? We’ve done a great job of establishing ourselves. We’ve navigated the very early stages of the company formation process, getting View Details
- 11 Sep 2017
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7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
HBS. The first time I was rejected and HBS did not even call me for an interview. Had I not been patient, I would not have had the privilege to live such a great experience.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Administración de Empresas. (Today INCAE is judged to be the best business school in Latin America and among the best in the world.) As part of my work there I conducted a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
science. “When someone asked Sir Laurence Olivier what makes a great actor,” DeLong writes, “he responded, ‘The humility to prepare and the confidence to pull it off.’ This is View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
unintentionally, in the center of COVID-19 crisis. Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts: An Introduction to Infographics By Stuart J. Murphy (OPM 11, 1986) and Teresa Bellón Charlesbridge Want to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
mounted with no relief to either side, the fund would keep growing, providing an increased incentive to settle. When one side cried uncle - on whatever terms - the financial strike would be over. But a View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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My Pandemic Year
a cold call. We bought time by saying, “I’m sorry, professor. My Internet isn’t great today. Could you please repeat the question?” Video Embed The advantage of Zoom was being... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
ancestors—were willing to make to seek something better. Think about, especially, those early immigrants. They had no idea what they were setting forth into when they left their homes. They got on a ship, and they didn't know if they were going to fall off View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
industry. “We’re looking ahead and thinking very deeply about where the industry is going as a result of innovation, as opposed to looking in the past,” he says. One sector where View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2006
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East to West
one of the School’s global research centers. “I couldn’t have worked on this case without actually being on the ground in Japan and working closely with the company,” she... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
our experience tells a different story. Industry leaders who have taken summer interns have typically found it to be a great investment of their time and resources as the internship program allows View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
bigger firms, often face tradeoffs between liquidity and profitability, and a common feature of successful firms seems to be a willingness to sacrifice profitability for liquidity. These tradeoffs are particularly relevant to acquisitions made by recent MBA graduates... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Bozidar Djelic
guests. “There is great pressure in this job,” says Djelic. “There are so many needs and so little money. Letting off steam is important for me and my colleagues.” The go-go pace of his work life can serve a... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
how the school runs). Managing a large, diverse team of my peers has provided a great learning environment to practice some of the management techniques we learned in RC... View Details