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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
provide microfinance to entrepreneurs. “People in developing countries grasp technology very quickly, but the big battle is literacy,” she remarks. Creating Web sites that use images and numbers instead of text is one tactic for crossing...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of...
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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
delivering Chinese food, and teaching Muay Thai classes. He maintained a spreadsheet of daily expenses, trying to beat his usual average of $4 a day with tactics that included avoiding public transportation by running or walking to get...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
recent totaling $36 million. "We identify people who are smart and passionate. We invest in them and provide strategic and tactical support to ensure their success." Helping others do their best work, in fact, is what drives Joanna...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
campuses asking students, in Shahani's words, to "pitch their dream"—a tactic meant to identify a pool of potential Godrej employees who can help shake up the brand. It, too, has Nisa's full backing. "She's very much a Renaissance...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
were a nonprofit enterprise, a tactic tried by a previous owner, was another untenable option. BookHampton needed to sell something that its competitors could not. The name and the brick facade of the Main Street building would stay,...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation Can you outnegotiate Wal-Mart? Can women overcome gender stereotypes to win equitable pay? A compendium of recent research from HBS looks at important factors to consider before sitting down at the bargaining table. See...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
real market would permit Americans to buy health insurance for themselves, not from a shopper like an HMO. Americans are rejecting what they view as the unfair tactics that HMOs use to keep their costs down: discrimination against...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts. Interventions have shown little...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
With 40,000 employees, Singapore-based Keppel Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of offshore oil rigs, both floating deep-water semisubmersibles that anchor to the seabed and "jack-up" rigs that stand on legs on the ocean floor in shallower depths....
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- 01 Mar 2015
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The Next Big Swing
in 1987, the game puts players in the manager’s seat, letting them make tactical decisions against a mathematical model that determines outcomes based on everything from how a batter has historically fared against a certain pitcher to the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Action Plan: A New ’Cue
Chinese steamed bun with hickory-smoked pulled pork, pickled daikon relish, and Asian plum barbecue sauce. How to: Build a Brand Know what you want to build. “Food, music, and art are the three pillars of our brand. Those are things that come from me and my...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
noncompete clauses that could limit their work options should they decide to move to a new company—or even start a company themselves. Kevin Johnson (MBA 1986), who has worked for both large tech companies and small startups, wants to change that, using a View Details
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
"Never apologize, mister," John Wayne's character famously said in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. "It's a sign of weakness." And while previous academic research has similarly concluded that apologizing during negotiations hurts perceptions of power, those ideas were "never...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who teaches in the School's Management...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
6, 2000) + ONLINE web-only content It’s all about social media! This business will grow from robust word-of-mouth recommendations, and based on my experience, these tactics should work well: (1) Send samples to social media influencers...
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- 15 Jun 2023
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