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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the format, standardize the menu, the... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
flat top of the S). “Miles Davis forced the musicians to approach the music without any expectations or preconceptions, often by giving them minimal sketches and sparse instructions."—Carl Størmer: Companies experience a lot of... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... July... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
was much tastier. On my lunch and dinner breaks, I would make myself a free barbecued dog (perk of the job), but I could not seem to convince the customers to wait the extra few minutes for a more delicious outcome. That was my first introduction to the concept of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
and they're paying close attention. I mean, people are like getting back to the TV to see the ad and then leaving during the game, sometimes. So, does that mean the stakes are a lot higher for brands featuring an ad in the Super Bowl?... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
all we’re told is ‘that’s not good enough’ then we’re going to give up.” Bazerman’s book closes that gap by drawing lessons from philosophy, yes, but also from behavioral economics, psychology, and negotiation theory to show how we can do... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
order to maximize shareholder wealth, consideration has to be given to the welfare of other stakeholders, particularly if one is thinking about long-term performance. Interest in stakeholder management has been around for a while. It goes View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
knowing you will never raise a meaningful friends and family round for your startup, or explaining overlapping jobs that go back to high school on your resume,or googling how to shave or change a tire or tie a tie. But it’s humbling... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
Reading The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing 6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy What's your take on the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
Guard – America’s smallest military branch and world’s most elite life-saving service – for the opportunity to make a difference and give back to my community and country. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: In 2011, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
to kill us,” he says. Support and Suppress Back in the flow of traffic, Timken explains that “our job is to both support and suppress — give help to the people who need it, while getting the hard-core bad... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
wasn’t secured by September 30, the remaining $180 million would disappear, giving Harmon and Enan just weeks to change more than a few hearts and minds. (Arguments used for denying and delaying the remaining funding often centered around... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
as collateral, and then ages the cheese in climate-controlled bank vaults. Photo credit: Emer Moloney The more it ages, the more delicious and valuable it becomes—like cash in an interest-bearing account. Eighteen-month cheese gives pasta... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
typically use. Each language has commands that will give you the memory usage of your data while loaded (in memory). A few examples are listed below. NB! In all situations, one should add at least 0.5 - 1 GB of RAM to the values reported... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
smart guys, whose opinions on the state of the world are noteworthy — but mainly because I am hoping to get each of them, and all those in front of us in Aldrich 112, to give me $28,500 for the Democratic National Committee, by whom I... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
attention and especially energy around speculation and trading—this gives an entrepreneur more time to focus and actually develop their product carefully without constantly having to face the market. Gazette: In November, the global... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and the ability of consumers to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and co-author of the new book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. “They have lots of opportunity to change the structures themselves.” The authors of Glass Half-Broken weave academic research... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
attention-begging designs give away its second disruptive innovation, which is to fully embrace its NA-ness, according to Annie Wilson (PhDBA 2020). A behavioral scientist and lecturer of marketing at the Wharton School who wrote a case... View Details