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- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
insights; describes how the technique should be adapted for use in an entrepreneurial context; and offers tips and cautions about applying the technique. The techniques include customer surveys, usability tests, market trials, split...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
guilt, and feeling the loss of how things used to be.” Pasricha also gave some leadership advice, as well as tips for individuals to develop a positive outlook. “The best thing leaders can do is have frequent, casual check-ins where they...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
at HBS. Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Steven L. Manchel is a Boston-area attorney and author of I Hereby Resign. [Image: iStockphoto/chaiyon021] What do companies need to do to retain...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
high commitment and broad responsibilities, the leadership intended to provide a level of client service that would justify premium rates. However, the system is not working. Issues include: tips are lower than expected, reducing expected...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
You've held your own while negotiating dozens of successful deals. Even so, you want to take your game to the next level. What's the next step? There are plenty of guides that offer tips on negotiation strategies. As useful as these are...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
company’s CEO, Joe Essa, so we had dinner that night with Thomas, Joe, and two wonderful Boston-based chefs, Jody Adams and Joanne Chang. A pretty heady group for our last restaurant supper! Christian Charnaux: In Georgia, we’re at the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His acceptance to HBS View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
perspective. The book covers Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, the Luberon Valley, Nîmes, St-Rémy-de-Provence, and more, with a special focus on the area around St-Rémy. The authors recommend restaurants with fabulous food and offer tips...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
basis, the riskless asset is not a nominal annuity or Treasury bond, but rather inflation-protected annuities and Treasury bonds (also known as TIPS). The demand for TIPS has grown considerably since they were created in 1997 when current...
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by Ann Cullen
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
people who work in this field, and they develop such knowledge of these companies that they start to get a sense of something that's not right and then they follow up. In over a third of these situations it appears that the press did the legwork, whether through...
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- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
their time at war as family. And the only people who knew what they had seen and done at the tip of the spear, while officially they weren't there. So the story was so obvious, but the reporting was very difficult at the beginning because...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
"suit itself would act as a wake-up call and hopefully would be an impetus for change." "We are just at the tip of the iceberg regarding what we need to know about repetitive trauma to the brain," Kacyvenski says. "The NFL has made a ton...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
with a $50 million government-backed fund that saw one of the country's first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. "In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
management case: “How do you try to understand the experiences and motivations of your colleagues and then pull everyone, together, onto a more sustainable path?” Previously in the minority when it came to proposing reforms, school board member Mark McAndrew says the...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
tipped me off that he had a connection to the LEGO company. With It, it was one of my employees who brought the idea to me in talking about the book and how iconic it was. So I have a team of people. I have a team of 10 employees that...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Companies also are becoming more aware of the need to capture what data they can through first-party cookies, by creating value through content. He offers the example of the website Glossier, whose strategy is focused on serving its audience useful beauty View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
promise of better charging infrastructure, and evolving trends in foreign markets all indicate that EVs are approaching a global tipping point. But with political winds imperiling government incentives in the United States and China...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
what is possible in the new normal of financial insecurity. Travels through Dali: With a Leg of Ham by Mei Zhang (MBA 1996) (Penguin Books China) Yunnan, at the southernmost tip of China, is a cradle of cultural and culinary diversity. It...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
undernourished 20-month-old whose birth mother could not afford to care for him. Less than six months later, a tip from HBS classmate J. Thomas Kolepp (MBA '84) led to the adoption of American-born Sarah, a premature infant who needed...
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