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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
says. “They were watching five times the amount of video content as the average US consumer.” She took the numbers and the direct-to-consumer streaming plans to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, who had been planning to launch a linear... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
top. Disputes often arise in the course of determining how the work of an organization should be accomplished, and these disputes must now be negotiated without the old fallback to rules and hierarchy. "We also have multiple organizations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
Wilkis Wilson, Traub, and Maybank Main article: Where Innovation Rules Marvin Traub (MBA 1949) joined Bloomingdale’s in 1950, became its president in 1969, and served as chairman and CEO from 1978 to 1991. Today, as chairman of Marvin... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Spar also turned to history for context. Advancing themes from her book Ruling the Waves, Spar illustrated how recent revolutionary technological developments in fact can be seen as replays of past situations where pioneers of free... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
rapidly disappearing, and those who like lording it over others or feeling immune from the rules can no longer get away with it. Status no longer confers a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, as too many indicted and convicted executives have... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
orderly and linear way. In his new book, Technology Integration: Making Critical Choices in a Dynamic World, HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti presents a detailed analysis of what has become a vital challenge in every cutting-edge... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
several key mistakes IBM made and suggests challenges that lie ahead for the company's current executives. Co-opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff (Doubleday) "Co-opetition" is a new business concept that goes beyond the old View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
As any music industry executive will tell you, rock-and-roll drives the business. And as any ten-year-old with a boom box knows, the guitar rules rock. So when it comes to pop music's signature instrument, even though he may lack flashy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
a book about what Americans do best — founding and building new businesses," writes Tedlow, the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. "It is about men who broke old rules and made new ones, who built new worlds, who were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
consumers upfront to avoid making bad decisions that incite criticism. I prefer a more collaborative, co-creative approach with consumers—understanding how they are likely to respond to key branding changes before they are made, rather... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control that exist only in limited... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
followed with its own business school ranking. The two publications ruled the market for nearly a decade before the FT, Forbes, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal all launched their own rankings between 1999 and 2002. (The Wall... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Utah, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study molecular biology and dance. Suddenly, a pre-planned life became uncharted territory. From that one big decision to pursue an education in the United States, she says, came many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
our own sense of right and wrong, true to the shared values that this process and these answers spoke to, and still represent one of the parties in an honorable way. So there were some common values that went beyond each individual party at the table. And those common... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
they found a good place to hide in the mountains. The next day, though, that team was attacked, and here, Brady tells the story of the last-minute decision that kept him from the subsequent, ill-fated rescue mission, the difficult View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
that decision? So when I became convinced that climate change is this moral challenge of our generation, I figured that the best way to address this issue at scale is to change the rules of the game. To work on the policies and... View Details