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John C. Mulliken
Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.
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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
it, “The acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon (which took place after this month’s column was posted) shows that there still are vast opportunities for Amazon to avoid the mechanics of the wheel The wheel begins to turn only when volume... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
in India Show Hide Details Concepts What Are Power Hierarchies? Why Do Power Hierarchies Persist? Overcoming the Impact of Stereotypes Empowering Smallholder Farmers in India Featured Exercises Identify and describe the mechanisms behind... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
affair was an expression of rebellion, his doctor says, “I tell you, Carl, nobody will ever be able to measure all the human misery that is the indirect result of the inescapable boredom and sense of purposelessness that derives from a civilization so View Details
- 01 May 2019
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What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
Silicon Valley's culture as a whole—‘an algorithm solves everything’ and ‘just put it out and we'll fix it later.’ In traditional media, for example, considerable debate can go into the production of a program ... With YouTube, Facebook, and others, there is no View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
bookselling industry, is growing. The American Booksellers Association counted 2,321 physical independent bookstores in the United States in 2017—40 percent more than there were in 2009. Raffaelli, who has also researched what he calls “technology reemergence” in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities
My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
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Chicago and the Farmington Bank Foundation. White was previously employed as CFO of Rockville Financial, vice president of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, and senior vice president of Mechanics Savings Bank. Popup content View Details
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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
- 03 Feb 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
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Isaac Robinson | MBA
Isaac Robinson Computer Science/Mathematics Eliot 2023 Cohort 5 I am excited to have a space and cohort of peers dedicated to conscientiously using technology and computational thinking to improve society. Tech areas of interest: View Details
Joseph N. Pew
Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew developed and patented the first View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the index selected 400 large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Alejandro Gracia-Zhang | MBA
Alejandro Gracia-Zhang Mechanical Engineering (SB) Quincy 2020 Cohort 1 I am really excited about being part of this amazing team and I'm looking forward to learning about how entrepreneurship can help us make a greater impact! Tech areas... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008 By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman