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    Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face--And What to Do About It (March 2010)

    Denial -- the unconscious belief that a certain fact is too terrible to face and therefore cannot be true -- has torpedoed many good businesses and more than a few great ones. It turns challenges into crises, and dilemmas into catastrophes. It is one of the greatest... View Details

    • 09 Sep 2024
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    McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

    It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
    • 16 Dec 2014
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    First Look: December 16

    benefits are at most partially realized. The same institutions and practices that facilitate efficient ad placement can also facilitate fraud. The networks that should be serving advertisers have decidedly mixed incentives, such as cost savings from cutting corners,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2025
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    Forward Thinking

    approximately 155,000 to under 100,000, according to the IUCN Red List assessment. Now certain forward-thinking conservationists, including Susan Reno Myers (MBA 1978), are turning their attention to the special challenges of the gentle giant. Myers found her way to... View Details
    Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture
    • November 2002 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    MedSource Technologies

    By: Robert S. Huckman
    Considers the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Production; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Management Teams; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

    Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

     

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    • 07 Dec 2010
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    First Look: Dec. 7

    Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 May 2009
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    First Look: May 27, 2009

    consumption growth by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper documents several empirical difficulties for the model as calibrated by Bansal and Yaron (BY,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff Citation Purchase Related Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "DRSi." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 225-080, July 2025. July 2025 Case... View Details
    • 12 Mar 2019
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    New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

    emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    Faculty & Research

    "Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Art. 104079. Journal of Financial Economics 170 (August 2025). DRSi By: Richard S. View Details
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    Utah Help Solve Underemployment for People with Disabilities? Re: Richard S. Ruback Katie Holyfield and Taylor Matkins founded Lucky Ones Coffee in 2017, a coffee shop with a... View Details
    • 07 Sep 2011
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    First Look: Sept. 7

    consumer marketing, etc.) in the event that a reverse launch strategy is pursued. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511036-PDF-ENG Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process Richard View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Business Economics - Doctoral

    lens of business. Jointly administered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the program combines theoretical analysis with in-depth, interdisciplinary research rooted in real-world applications.... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2007
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    First Look: January 30, 2007

      Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    Markets Investing Seminar Sara Fleiss Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms Jason Pananos Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) View Details
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    Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Business Administration Kristin W. Mugford Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Community and Culture Jason T. Pananos Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Richard View Details
    • 02 Jun 2010
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    Lead Times Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Journal of Development Economics 176 (September 2025). DRSi By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff July 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Citation Purchase Related... View Details