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07 Feb 2019
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New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes

Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Constance Jones (MBA 2008) understands the importance of demonstrating change: As detailed in the... View Details

03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

investments from overlapping funds, left the Berkshire team in a difficult situation. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-034 Fair Value Accounting Controversy at Noble Group... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Scott St. Germain

people I inspire will, in turn, play a role in serving as a guiding light for future generations after my one wild and precious life has passed. Professionally, I'd like to serve as an example by demonstrating how work can actually be a View Details

Martha R. Ingram

After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram Industries and Ingram... View Details

Keywords: Services

01 Dec 1998
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Scott P. Mason Remembered

in finance in 1980. Memorial donations may be made to A Better Chance, Noble & Greenough School, or Chapel HillChauncy Hall School, located in the Massachusetts towns of Wellesley, Dedham, and Waltham, respectively. View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value

When Barnes & Noble rolled out a line of “store-brand” classic books last summer, the publishing industry gasped.The company aimed to provide consumers with high-quality books at prices significantly below what they would pay from... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

companies with widely recognized brands. Eisenmann cites Barnes & Noble as a clear example of the latter. "It took Barnes & Noble 18 months to wake up to the threat posed by Amazon.com," he... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

Fall 2021
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When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble

Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis

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Lucasz S. Babiarz

in finance, accounting, business strategy, and leadership—"all the things," he says, "that aren't emphasized in medical school. Many doctors have noble or genuinely new ideas for medicine. But most of them are not... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World

publication date) sold between twenty and thirty thousand copies in fiscal year 2001. “Leadership Online: Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com (A),” by P. Ghemawat and B. Baird (9-798-063), 2000 “Dell Online,” by V.K. Rangan and M. Bell... View Details

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Eric Justin

I too should be great. That I should welcome personal sacrifice, be dedicated to noble causes, and make transformative improvements to people’s lives. But these biographies often overlooked the virtues of goodness I learned from my... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Noted & Quoted

with stories of humble beginnings and noble struggles against overpowering adversaries, providing underdog narratives for consumers.” — HBS assistant professor Anat Keinan describing the market power of “challenger brands.” (Financial... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE... View Details

25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?

secretary. Talk about a nonstarter: no way am I going to voluntarily pay more. That noble act would neither correct the unfairness of the system nor make much of an impact on the country’s unbalanced budget. Perhaps I could justify my... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I have long aspired to make our Company a noble prototype of industry: penetrating in science, reliable in engineering,... View Details

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Jake Cusack

seen those things that separate war in the abstract from war in reality: how hard it is to successfully intervene in another country, no matter how noble the goal, no matter how great the effort. The difference between writing... View Details

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

working to expand a fledgling business operating in a new, as yet largely undefined, market. Heinz and Noble believed that they had no time to lose. To make the most of the opportunity they saw before them, they would have to use their... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

building a better car. When Amazon.com bested Barnes & Noble on the Internet, among B&N's responses was to sue Amazon, alleging fraudulent advertising. Then the laggard company enters phase three: Cosmetic change. Executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce

reflects what they like, for example, in books or music. Online services equipped with Firefly's "relationship management" and "advanced personalization" software (such as bookseller Barnes & Noble or information provider My Yahoo!)... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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