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01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

feeling really privileged and tremendously excited to be given this opportunity to shape the next chapter of the School that we all love. I am very eager to get started, and even as I say that I am aware that we are in a highly unusual View Details

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

for somebody like me, I could see people not being wild about Hillary Clinton. Maybe she wasn't warm enough. People talked a lot about oh, the only time I really saw her as warm and authentic was that night in New Hampshire in the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

understood the banks’ response, but I also knew my strategy and business plan would revive the company,” he says. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution.” Viana had been in a similarly tight spot at other times... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Satyam), a troubled Indian IT company managed since January 2009 by a six-member government-appointed caretaker board. Anand Mahindra, chairman and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

him are heroes, plain and simple, because they have the capacity to change the world for the better. “Tim recognizes the difficulty of effecting change, and the need to celebrate the people who do that work,” says Jennifer Fonstad (MBA 1997), a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

likes to do operations like housekeeping and food and beverage. And there’s a third entity that has the brand. Companies like the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton, we say they “flag” a hotel. They don’t manage it; they “flag” it. Trump has a... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

to click your knitting needles if there is no demand for sweaters. You should get out of your rocking chair and prod the market. Managing complements is a smarter way of doing business, and there are endless possibilities: Michelin tires... View Details

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

sequencing and a sustained effort, you don't make progress. Our single-issue focus lately works against us. There's also a tremendous mismatch between the time horizons of politics and of competitiveness. Most things that matter for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

has really become a part of the modern business canon. And he has a new book coming out next month, Competing Against Luck, which argues that understanding customers' motivations, what quote unquote, "role" consumers are buying a product to fill, can help View Details

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

And so the manipulation of the alternatives was really straightforward. Q: What can managers and other professionals learn from this research when they find themselves in negotiations? A: I think the critical piece here is the distinction... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

the time the feature was introduced, about 3.6 percent of Hinge’s users were married, engaged, or “in a relationship.” For comparison, recent research from GlobalWebIndex estimated 42 percent of Tinder users are in relationships. Of... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

encouraging, how and when we set overall rules for encouraging (volunteerism) and how we plan to assess, monitor, and manage need to (be) addressed." Alden Cushman added: "how information is collected, put into context,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

professional women navigating the workplace as new hires, managers, and leaders in a “post-#MeToo” environment. Co-organizer and moderator Laura Fortner (MBA 1995) says the event, held at creative space MONDO in Summit, NJ, was an opportunity to address a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

the state-owned power company, is one of the best electric companies in the world," says Vietor, adding that South Africa is the continent's primary provider of electricity. In a recent Cape Times article describing ESKOM's importance in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; Herman B. Leonard, George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration; and Lynn S. Paine, John G. McLean Professor... View Details

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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