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- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
activity in a way by which that goal can be realized. You’ll see much more in this arena in the new year. Second, I see many opportunities to leverage the many digital assets we have built and to think about how we might use the case... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to book value); (2) Return on Assets Ratios; and (3) Market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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because it is about trying to allow every individual to be the best that they can be and for us to be able to support that activity in a way by which that goal can be realized. You’ll see much more in this arena in the new year. Second, I see many opportunities to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a single, simple portal and an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
environmental, social, and governance proposition to value creation, both in top line growth, cost reductions, regulatory and legal interventions, and avoiding some of those interventions, productivity uplift by their workers, and asset... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
Traditional investment criteria such as proprietary technologies and experienced management teams are also important in social purpose investing. The most important finding was that if investors follow a disciplined strategy that... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the decision facing top View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
sectors. In November 2022, Enan joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The flight deck had taken a beating from takeoffs and landings and needed to be resurfaced. Being a supply officer is like managing a small city. At the Naval Academy I was intrigued by the glamour of being a pilot or a ship driver, but... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and occupational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
daunting challenges, but they each expressed a zealous commitment to their work and a heartfelt belief in their products. Brand Recognition: Michael Moynihan Michael T. Moynihan (MBA 1993) was reintroduced to LEGO as an adult when his job as a Cheerios brand View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details