Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
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The Father of Modern Advertising

Don Draper and the rest of the Mad Men crew can thank Albert D. Lasker for their fame. A new biography convincingly nominates Lasker as the “father of modern advertising,” noted for creating brilliant ad... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

the mid-1920s, Bruce Barton produced The Man Nobody Knows, comparing Jesus to a sales and advertising man. In the middle of the Great Depression, Dale Carnegie, a former Armour salesman, wrote the bestseller... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

dancing, just a gorgeous display of things going on. At midnight, there were these tasteful nude dancers, if you will, a man and a woman brought in to kind of wrap around a... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

diversity and inclusion. Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was a little nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

19 Nov 2013
News

Rescuing JFK From Abstraction

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and host of Slate’s new How To! podcast; author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better MUST LISTEN The Clearing “It’s a true-crime... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty

Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

Seventeen years after the dawn of social media marketing, this medium continues to be an intriguing puzzle—a place where brands are investing more time and money, but are still struggling to determine what works well and where the returns... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

2016
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Wrong Paths to Right: Defining Morality With or Without a Clear Red Line

By: Ryann Elizabeth Manning and Michel Anteby

The extensive literature on organizational wrongdoing tends to assume that a clear red line divides the moral terrain. However, many organizations function not as moral orders, but as moral pursuits in which there is intentionally no explicit definition of right and... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Organizational Theory; Sociology Of Ethics And Morality; Morality; Organizational Culture; Culture; Ethics; Africa; North and Central America

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23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise started life with a clear idea of... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

breakfast and sometimes other meals, during which time each person has the opportunity to raise an issue she would like help with from the group. EE: Can you offer some examples of these issues? Hart: At one session, we had a woman who... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

Awards

21st Century Fund (Brookline, MA) Distinguished Alumnus

By: Arthur I Segel

Honored as 2007 Man of the Year by the 21st Century Fund, a foundation in Brookline Massachusetts that supports new initiatives in public education. View Details

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

August 2005
Case

Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock

Genius? That is not what they were calling Bill Belichick in Cleveland. Why? Four losing seasons in five years. Fans hurled trash and insults. The media resented him. Ownership abandoned him. Players quit on him. Very different from the three Super Bowls in five years... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Sports; Sports Industry; United States

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01 Oct 2002
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HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad

paid the bill.” Barry, who joined the HBSAI when he returned to Dublin, first served as its secretary. He jokes that he became president in the summer of 2000 “because I was the last man left standing.” In... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

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23 Jan 2017
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Does Jazz Music Need Star Power?

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

“Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Millions upon millions . . . of the most varied designs were thrown on the market. . . . Hardly a business man in the country has not at one time or... View Details

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