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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Growing Up Creative: Nurturing a Lifetime of Creativity. More recently, Amabile drew on that interview and subsequent correspondence with Irving for an article she wrote for a special section on creativity in American Psychologist....
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Cases & Course Materials The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A) Carliss Y. BaldwinHarvard Business School Case 210-035 The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
How did the pipeline grow? Did we add lower- or higher-profit and lifetime value customers? Are we targeting shorter or longer selling-cycle prospects? What are the implications for the "center of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
proceeded to close an assembly plant last year to take down capacity by 25 percent. We also reduced our indirect workforce by 20 percent, becoming one of the first major Japanese companies to take such a decisive step. Lifetime employment...
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- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
introspection, and the first one, capability, is about knowing your superpower. To discover your superpower, your unique capability, you need to dig deep into both the skills you've acquired over your lifetime and the unique talents that...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
The survey showed, for instance, that 1) the highly educated, ambitious women and men of HBS don't differ much in terms of what they value and hope for in their lives and careers; 2) it simply isn't true that a large proportion of HBS...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
distinguish between these mechanisms. Approaches that seek to identify true value from demand, without specifying mechanisms behind this wedge, are most useful when researchers are interested in evaluating allocation policies that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
it happens), they often see dollar signs first and foremost. Salaries are soaring - even a journeyman player can earn in a few seasons what the average fan makes in a lifetime - and ever-increasing revenues are required to fund expanding...
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Garry Emmons
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
manufacturing. And thanks to the war, Doriot has gained a lifetime of experience in organizing and managing new ventures in a pressure-cooker environment. It is not surprising, then, that the former head of the New England Council's...
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by Spencer E. Ante
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
approach was not a universal panacea to competing in the global economy." Porter went on to suggest that even the profitable Japan had serious limitations. "Total quality management, lifetime employment, close relationships with...
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by Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
executive table. I do think, however, we’re setting a good pace for change. We’ve introduced an approach we call One Anglo that’s based on the core values that underpin the company in all its activities. With the support of the executive...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Eleanor W., and Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others who are self-employed have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
how well he can create shared value in that context. A lot of negotiations are also about leverage, and for the most part, he’s gotten himself in a very favorable position where he usually has the negotiating leverage. He may not have the...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the tumultuous path to publication that begins for many of us with trying to publish our dissertation. We invited Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan—the 2013 and 2015 recipients of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA
and only Waste-to-Energy plant. Here we talked “trash” all day – from how much of it is produced daily, to how it is transported, to creating value from it by converting it to energy. Our objective during the IFC was to learn as much as...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
much in the employer’s interest to also be there for them. I ask you, does it maximize profit to treat customers well by selling them products that represent good value for the money, or is it best to charge them as much as you can while...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
overestimating the value of an item—and overpaying for it. Nobel Committee: In the 1960s, Robert Wilson started to investigate auctions with a common value. That is, a value which is unknown beforehand, but...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,...
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