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- 30 Apr 2014
- News
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
- 04 Feb 2016
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Research Explores Consequences Of Revealing Embarrassing Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
give them the opportunity to build their businesses.” —Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) Back to top “Lisa Sherman” A successful executive at Verizon, Lisa Sherman is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from the Census Bureau and the Federal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely Tale of Happily Ever After by... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
in a summertime interview in her temporary office space in northern Virginia, preferred not to reveal too much about the thirteen-member operation. But the excitement of running her own firm with a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
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Rowing Upstream
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored by advertisers, “The Army Crew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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The Father of Modern Advertising
made promises that reality couldn’t keep, such as claiming Lucky Strikes (“Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”) improved throat health. He preferred to do business directly with chief executives and made many powerful and lasting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
the world’s top athletes. They reveal the secrets behind ESPN’s success and the many scandals, rivalries, and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent. (For more, see Miller’s “My Two Cents” in this issue.) The Little Black Book of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
leading from the sidelines, where their most valuable, freedom-loving employees preferred them to be. It’s a model that reveals another foundational truth about leadership: some of your best people don’t... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
discussion in particular that foreshadowed the rise of women in the workplace. “It was the only case featuring a female, but that fact was disguised,” Brandt says. After letting the predominantly male class discuss the case and come to their conclusions, Levitt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
offers hard-earned wisdom about the true spirit of networking, a learned skill that can be mastered by anyone, even introverts. She debunks the notion that networking is a self-interested act. Instead, she reveals it to be a lifelong... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
Finally Peter said he would do it,” reveals Baer, “but only if I would be the day-to-day operating person. Neither of us had any prior intention of leaving our jobs, but that’s how the deal went through.” A Likable Leader Baer Facts —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
organization, had abused his daughter over the course of many years. The trauma of the victim’s experiences was gutting; the way it had been handled by leadership amounted to a particularly bitter betrayal for staff. The newspaper’s 10-month investigation View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
or gravimetric data, or things, you know, indirect measurements. They have no way of seeing what’s under the ground, they can only estimate what’s under the ground. Another aspect of that, by the way, is it reveals that the bidder who's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the insistence of the venture capital community, former Intel executive Mike Markkula joined the team. “So in that way,” Sahlman continues, “it’s different from real estate. It’s about, how do I create experiments that reveal to me, and... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
equation" seems to be at the forefront of each of their leaders' minds. "I really believe that the most important competitive element a company has are the people who work in it," notes Boise Cascade's Harad. Harad prefers to lead by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry