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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
is of serious concern to the manager(s) at OppenheimerFunds as well as to other investors. This leads a media turnaround firm to contact OppenheimerFunds and other large Take-Two shareholders with the intention of ousting the company's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
This realization led her to pursue inclusion program manager roles at Netflix and later at Amazon. “Each transition has been about a question that needed to be answered or a problem that needed to be solved,” Ramirez explained. With that in mind, she has been View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
election, what's in the news, what your mom just said to you on the phone, whatever. And the remaining 40% are your intentional activities. And this is where the new body of research is really coming in handy. That 40% is the part we can... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
who have practiced on the Charles for four years." The company announced a strong board of directors and an all-star advisory board of business leaders, educators, and two former governors. It signed a letter of intent with Coca-Cola... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
where he worked on rebuilding subway tunnels at the World Trade Center disaster site. Intent on adding business management skills to his tech-nical tool kit, he applied to HBS. To his dismay, midway through his first year, the Army called... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
dollars if you can translate the traffic into transactions. That's the idea, to get you more compellingly engaged. Even the standard 30-second TV spots are often used to capture the attention of the viewers and then direct them to the Web with the View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
integrate acquisitions quite successfully, including clear strategic intent and the fact that employee resistance was reduced because most acquisitions were agreed. Finally Unilever could take a long-term view because of its size, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
belonging by socially connecting with colleagues in a meaningful way. When these needs are satisfied, employees feel more motivated, engaged, and committed to their workplace—and they report fewer intentions of leaving their jobs,... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
module includes at least one business case where the leadership team failed to achieve their goals. Students will discuss how to manage failure, seek feedback, and make mid-course corrections. The intent is to develop the student’s... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
distributions to support operations in accordance with the donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. The University determines each year’s endowment payout rate—that is, the percentage of the endowment’s prior-year market value... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The course is founded on an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
years, and then something good happening. They came about through intention and openness to opportunity and willingness to act in that hardship and for that opportunity at the right time. An example of this is my father's hearing. So my... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
women." Leaders need to set bold goals and provide the resources for people to reach those goals. It doesn't help to have legislation with a very grand sounding name like No Child Left Behind and not give it enough funding so that schools can actually live up to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
meth, and he went to work doing that. And he spent $25 to $30 million of his own money to figure that out and to create a campaign. And so some of those ads were scary, but that was not their intent. Their intent were to be reality based,... View Details
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Figuring Out Her Mission Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015) had a very specific intention in mind when she applied to HBS. After an early career in investment banking and corporate strategy, “I wanted to apply my business skills to something more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
about their intentions to start Seattle Avionics. Hamilton approached them on the spot and talked his way into becoming a partner. “It’s worked out beautifully,” says Hamilton. “It’s fun to work with other entrepreneurs to build... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle... View Details
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
you do in a traditional HBS class. However, the intent of these cases/vignettes is to help you understand what the person being described did, and for you to reflect on your own reactions and what you would do – not to judge what they... View Details