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- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
contract with the Iraqi government. In addition, the executives in London and Beijing needed to decide whether it made sense to exercise the option they had just purchased. Would they be throwing good money after bad by investing in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing—when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
culmination of those 130,000 words is a deeply personal and poetic recounting of Casey’s life, crafted not as a memoir, but as an intervention. READ MORE Morrell: We're here to today to talk about your book, but I want to start by talking about your View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto Goizueta really think New Coke was... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications by Professor Chandler, Professor Nancy Koehn, and Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
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company’s ownership model (e.g., going from private to public or vice versa)? What does it take to be good at ownership (vs. management)? Course Content and Organization: The course is divided into four main... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
work and the favorable public reception of the Hawthorne studies, the idea that the central concern of leadership was to create meaning for organizational members was not significantly advanced. We've identified two possible reasons. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
splashing all over my laptop, and I think, that can't be good for a computer. So I'm swerving to avoid some jerk who doesn't realize that a yellow light means "speed up," and I'm trying to put the roof up on the car, and I look at the... View Details
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
you: Are a second-year MBA student graduating in May in good academic and community standing (see Policies & Student Conduct ). NOTE: ECs who complete the MBA Program in December with a March graduation date are eligible to apply in... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
today innovating in a complex intellectual property environment in fields where there is a high amount of cumulativeness. The case highlights the leverage that good strategic thinking can bring to influencing the outcome. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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relations, events and donations - Promoting and organizing other conferences, workshops and events - Participating in coaching of Harvard Business School students and alumni - Supporting other Harvard Business School student activities - Supporting Harvard Business... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer Society. The new Access to Care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
principal can set its payment delay to deter bad-type agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding bad agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues
As the Bulletin celebrates its 75th birthday, this is a good time to reflect on the principal topics the magazine has covered over the years. In paging through 75 years of Bulletins, we found a remarkable amount of ink given to matters... View Details