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- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
their next venture-backed firm, compared with 23 percent for those who previously failed and 22 percent for first-timers. "The size of the effect more than anything was surprising," note HBS professors Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive environment created View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
Teaching a case study on the National Geographic Society for the first time, HBS professor David A. Garvin walks out to the middle of the horseshoe-shaped classroom and asks his students, "How many of... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Walter A. Friedman's new book Birth of a Salesman chronicles the rise and development of modern sales management from the 18th century to the present day. Its fascinating cast of dynamic business figures and academic leaders includes John... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
that no one had ever seen and that no one understood what it did was brilliant” Those are the questions David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano address in their new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
I am also looking at how incentive systems can be designed to promote long-run performance. Excerpt From rethinking The Mba: Business Education At A Crossroads By Srikant M. Datar, David View Details
- November 2008 (Revised January 2011)
- Exercise
Breaking Through Action Plan
By: David A. Thomas and Karen J. Watai
The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Power and Influence; Trust
Thomas, David A., and Karen J. Watai. "Breaking Through Action Plan." Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059, November 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
realize that it involves skills that can be learned and refined, according to Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis. Highly skilled advisers pay close attention to how... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
you need heroic leaders in order to have meaningful, sustained change. Why Change Efforts Fail "Change is one of the few areas where experts have been in violent agreement for decades," declares David View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 30 Jan 2009
- Other Presentation
Advice to the U.S. President on Competitiveness
Session moderated by Michael Porter and featuring Scott Davis, Ellen J. Kullman, Rupert Murdoch, Duncan Niederauer, David M. Rubenstein, Ronald A. Williams. View Details
"Advice to the U.S. President on Competitiveness." World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009.
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenges and opportunities posed by digital platforms, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power is a new book by Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
at MIT during the late 1970s. "I began to ask myself why I didn't feel more satisfied even though I'd reached these goals and experienced these milestones after graduation. I also began to read more theoretical work on motivation and was influenced View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
available shortly, Marketing Marijuana in Colorado, Harvard Business School marketing professor John A. Quelch and coauthor David Lane look at lessons from the first few months of legalization to see what... View Details
- February 1985 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Puritan Drug Co.
David Thomas takes his first sales management assignment and is faced with a sales rep revolt because of a possible territory reorganization. In addition, his sales division is performing well below the national average. Rewritten version of a case by R.Z. Sorenson. View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Conflict and Resolution; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr. "Puritan Drug Co." Harvard Business School Case 585-158, February 1985. (Revised July 1993.)
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Business School and a principal of Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation strategy firm. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. David A. Lax, a former faculty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
Working PapersUnfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring Relationships Authors:Stacy Blake-Beard, Audrey Murrell, and David Thomas Abstract W.E.B. DuBois's 1903 words are prophetic,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
Online—was coauthored by Nancy P. Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor of Management of the Wharton School of Business; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka