by Michael Raynor - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2004
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09 Nov 2015
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The World's Most Influential Business Thinkers 2015

08 Sep 2010
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Proposed Obama tax cuts aren't enough for companies to start hiring again

03 Mar 2003
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The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

to helping the combined companies compete with rivals such as Disney and Cap Cities/ABC. To get the deal done, however, Michael Ovitz, talent agent turned unorthodox corporate matchmaker, kept the parties mostly apart during the process,... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

30 Apr 2015
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Business bookshelf: 'Strategy Rules' about Gates, Grove and Jobs

29 Jun 2017
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An Eye to the Future: How the United States Navy is Managing Climate Change

2020
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The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World

By: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman

Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of changes to an... View Details

Keywords: Experiments; Randomized Controlled Trials; Organizations; Decision Making; Analytics and Data Science; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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25 Oct 2020
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How Consumers Really Use Online Reviews

18 Jul 2013
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The Two-Minute Game that Reveals How People Perceive You

24 Jan 2012
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Free-Market Socialism

March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
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Dell Online

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Market Transactions; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Retail Industry

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20 Jun 2018
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Here's what CEOs actually do all day

17 Jan 2013
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Reshoring manufacturing: Coming home

08 Jan 2016
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Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

indicates the answer is yes. That is, by enhancing employee value managers can potentially add significant value to an organization. This research is particularly important to recall this week, when, with the close of the NFL’s regular... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

23 Sep 2011
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Environmental policy globalisation means better reporting

02 Jan 2001
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Gurus in the Garage

interviewed share one habit: they refuse to make decisions for the entrepreneurs. Otherwise, their teaching methods vary tremendously. Learning by Doing When Michael Chiarello, founder and CEO of NapaStyle,... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

05 Mar 2018
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Our Newest Culture Warriors: Activist C.E.O.s

January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
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Zaoui & Co. (A): Consigliere for High Stakes M&A Transactions

By: Ashish Nanda, Alex Kitsberg and Zack Kurtovich

In September 2019, Zaoui & Co.’s close-knit team of professionals convened for their annual off-site. In its nine years of operation, the boutique investment bank founded by the brothers Michael (HBS ’83) and Yoel Zaoui (Stanford GSB ’88), had garnered a track record... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firm; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Strategy; Investment Banking; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Europe; United Kingdom

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