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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
exhaustive search during which she learned a lot from all kinds of constituencies. I have had the benefit of hearing her distillation of that input. I’m also talking with key staff, and I’m reaching out to our alumni around the world. I... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
strategy to provide textbooks for college accounting courses. The Joffes are trying to raise private equity financing, but market conditions have made it difficult and the company is at risk of exhausting the senior Joffe's savings. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
affairs in our chapter in The Support Economy called "The Transaction Crisis." Cost reduction has continued to be the dominant strategy under managerial capitalism because new sources of wealth creation are increasingly elusive. That very problem is the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
this activity in established institutions. At HBS, he racked the exhaust pipes on his old, turquoise-blue Ford pickup with the express purpose of setting off car alarms in the Soldiers Field Park garage. He used game theory in a classroom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
electronic ink — not end products,” Wilcox says, “and we bet everything that electronic publishing would become a big industry.” The move came too late, and by January 2004, the remaining technical issues had exhausted the last of the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
I was surprised by how powerful my baby's smiles are! I find myself saying "Kaleel you're so cute" like ten times a day. There have been times when I'm exhausted at whatever time in the morning breastfeeding and he'll give me a little... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
process, just grueling. Public and, you know, Jack was like the most famous business leader probably in the history of the world. Because, you know, the markets were booming. He was really famous. And so, you know, it was all like spotlights all the time. So it was an... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of September 11, 2001. She spent a year... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
the future. Understanding these stories offers vital perspective on our own hopeful, anxious, and, at times, exhausting moment. The past is where we came from. We cannot afford to ignore it. View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
profitable, the two remaining founders are embroiled in exhausting fights over how aggressively the company should try to grow, and those fights are threatening to derail Lynx's recent success. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
they knew to be hiding in the mountain range. Still there was reason for hope. Green had managed to send a message to his superiors in Bari through British radio channels: “All equipment lost[.] Majority in bad condition because exposure[,] frozen feet[,] View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
RunKeeper became allergic to revenue, ramped up its burn, and tried to pursue both the running app and the Health Graph—but did neither well. At the end of the case, the company is almost out of cash, and Jacobs has exhausted his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
launch were exhausting but exciting as we raced to hit our deadlines. We were living the Silicon Valley dream. The afternoon before the launch, I had retreated to a quiet restaurant to work alone when my phone rang. It was our data center... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios