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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

on informal interactions to develop their offers, connect with customers and investors, and launch operations. Upon entering the growth stage, scaling ventures introduce, often of necessity, increasingly... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

horseback, such representations have shaped the public’s perception of Native peoples and reinforced harmful stereotypes. Many of these objects also portray Indigenous people... View Details

13 Jun 2005
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Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

be the case with new technologies); they may be skeptical of the products because previous offerings have failed to live up to expectations; or they may have personal objections to products or companies in... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

careers; careers in global financial management; senior executive jobs; careers in policy-making. Educational Objectives The educational objectives of the IMaGE course are... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

it's something new; financial institutions are worried about losing money; the federal government is concerned about compliance problems associated with designing a new system to serve so many people; the lawyers are worried about SEC regulations," he says, reciting... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

the coming information age in their dedication to the rapid collection, centralization, storage, and dissemination of data, the credit reports they gathered had little in common with the terse list View Details

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

challenge? Using a tool called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Speed & Scale offers an unprecedented global plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late. Used by Google, Bono’s ONE foundation, and thousands View Details

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual

“Why didn’t I think of that?” I’ve learned to trust that there’s an endless well of good ideas. And when you put opportunities in the hands of wild-eyed optimists—instead View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history View Details

26 Sep 2005
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What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

job seeker might not get a top salary even with a high level of perceived power—but the end result would reflect concessions on both sides and a larger overall pie to be shared. One possible reason: Parties perceived to be on a near-equal... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

October 2016
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24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details

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01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

25 Oct 2004
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Planning for Surprises

independently operating silos and the filtering of information as it passes up through the hierarchies. Political vulnerabilities contribute to predictable surprises when a small number View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

immediately, allowing customers to receive decision-useful information within 90 minutes of placing a request. “We’re building toward actual real-time capabilities,” Minnick says. Giving private companies... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

11 Feb 2013
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Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

robots, or sock puppets. But there is a point at which an object looks almost human, yet not quite human enough, and the result is disturbing. It's called the uncanny valley. And for Christine Looser, it's the starting point for a line... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online

Additional Privacy Disclosures 1. Introduction These Additional Privacy Disclosures (“Disclosures”) provide information on collection and use of personal data about individuals located in a Relevant Region... View Details

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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

allowing for my first encounters with African art, with the art of James van der Zee and Jacob Lawrence, for example.” In his mixed-media assemblages, such as Astro Beeing shown here, and Minor (also in the Schwartz Art Collection) Bailey... View Details

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