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Ralph E. Ward
Sauce, Bass Shoes, and Health-tex Children’s Clothing are textbook examples of successful mergers. He used Chesebrough’s marketing clout and presence to achieve stellar financial performance for over a decade. View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Under his leadership, McGraw became the largest publisher of trade magazines and newsletters in the United States, accounting for 30% of its sales. In addition, McGraw-Hill published 20,000 different books a year, ranking as the largest publisher of View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production The Worker The Audience Chapter Introduction Chapter Images Bibliography The Audience: Public Relations and the Archive The photographs not only supplement instruction secured from textbooks and lectures, but they form the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
through case reading, case discussions, reading the textbook and having informal discussions with classmates, the more intuitive and clear the material became. At HBS, we learn finance and accounting through the case method just like... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
Nestlé's sales of nearly $46 billion represented growth of 3.6 percent in real terms, with profits up 12 percent over 1998. Corti -- who has a doctorate in economics from the University of Lausanne -- speaks five languages, reads widely, and still studies View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
essential values: customer sovereignty, innovation, excellence, integrity, people orientation, and social responsibility. "It's not really a textbook leadership style," says Natarajan, who treats staff like extended family. "We have... View Details
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Lauren Park
learn Algebra in this room today. Without chairs. We already operate with too few textbooks and a consistently-jammed copier. I take a deep breath. ... The day was a resounding success. We were productive despite our missing resources.... View Details
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
frequent and important component of the class. Polling will be done frequently. Textbook readings and technical notes supplement the cases, while additional optional books and articles are suggested for more exposure to theoretical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
structure is a textbook duopoly, they add, surrounded by a “political industrial complex” of special interests, donors, and lobbyists, resulting in competition that fails to deliver what citizens should expect: practical and effective... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
principles to guide it. This is the challenge. Managers must rise to it, for they are the force at the center of the storm." Managerial Decision Analysis Series four new titles by David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. (Course Technology, Inc.) Decision-makers take... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511065-PDF-ENG Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman, and Evan W. RichardsonHarvard Business School Case 811-077 In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Tomiwa Igun
eyesight worsened from the faint beams of flashlight hitting my textbooks as I studied at night. When Nigeria finally won Olympic Gold, I watched the television flicker to darkness due to power failure — I had missed a monumental moment... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
coauthored the textbook and its updates with the late Sumantra Ghoshal (HBS DBA '86) and Paul W. Beamish of the University of Western Ontario. "The Japanese juggernaut had just come driving through the United States, challenging the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
a bridge, a launch pad and a new rite of passage. It’s the students who find the courage to step off the treadmill—replacing textbooks with experience and achievement with exploration—who are best prepared for life after high school. And... View Details
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John Clayton
to textbook teaching – through the case method. But with cases, you interact with and engage your classmates to learn not just the ‘how,’ but the ‘why’. The case method puts you at the helm of the ship and forces you to think through your... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
endorsements of the umbrella organizations. The big contracts did not come as quickly as the founders had expected, and in early 2001, the company was no longer in business. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
scary, as a marketer, is that if you were to pick up a classic marketing textbook and do everything that was prescribed in that textbook, you would end up being just like every other marketer out there. In other words, you would end up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
Ballou worked on the front lines with local parent-teacher associations in Liberian villages to raise funds for textbooks and teacher salaries. The experience provided ample insight into "the huge problems that nonprofits have in getting... View Details
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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
are not historically wealthy high-income democracies, and where many of the textbook assumptions regarding how markets function—such as the enforcement of contracts, anti-trust laws, universally low or absent tariffs, governments acting... View Details
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Richard Lou
thought and effort into my analyses." Hands-on at HBS and in China For Richard, leadership is not about learning from a textbook but being able to develop the skills. With colleagues from the Real Estate Club, Richard put together a... View Details