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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Built to Last
Weisiger at Carolina Tractor & Equipment: laying a foundation for employee development and company values The third generation to lead Carolina Tractor & Equipment (CTE), Ed Weisiger Jr. (MBA 1986) wants to rewrite the typical Hollywood script when it comes to family...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
distinctively influence buyers' purchasing. (Consider, Google, Amazon, and myriad others in their respective spheres.) I consider implications of these platforms' market power and then suggest strategies to help companies recapture View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
is the secret sauce behind this new franchise? Two alumni on different sides of the process sum it up the same way: be true to the brand’s core value of creative, open-ended play. Movie producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) got the idea for making...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
frictions throughout the value chain. With these structural impediments in mind, we visited WayCool Foods and Pixxel, two innovative companies that are attempting to improve economic conditions for farmers,...
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- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: How can marketing better align with corporate strategy? Can you place a View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
violence against your company if you are not willing to voice support for their cause there are rarely any solutions that would satisfy everyone. CEO’s facing this kind of circumstance have my respect and sympathy.” Peter Fanning offered...
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by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Mae Abdelrahman
world, I realized that not everyone views skin the way that I do. Instead, I learned that some people value skin based on its color and believe it is worth less when it is black. Honing the intentionality of my mother, I started Nour – a...
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- Fast Answer
Sustainable investing and ESG resources
by ERM, this report synthesizes survey responses from investors and companies to assess the value and quality of ESG ratings from leading ratings firms. ESG data (public View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
successful. Mary Barra is an incredible CEO. What we have is a management team that values meritocracy and diversity of thought. To me, it’s less about gender or where I’m from; it’s about bringing in diverse perspectives to make better...
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Julia Hanna
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
largest, most valued companies today are platforms, and you need to know why they’re so successful and how to work with them to stay competitive.” Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this...
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- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Hythem El-Nazer, a young investment professional at TA Associates, believes he has found an attractive investment opportunity for the firm, MetroPCS, a wireless telecomm service provider. However, two months earlier, TA had invested considerable resources on this...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
viewing everyone as a customer, you fundamentally change the nature of the value proposition that exists between you and the entities with whom you interact."2 This theme is echoed in another recent book, Everyone Is a Customer:...
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by Robert Simons
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
feel overwhelming. How will we integrate interns into the team? What project would drive the most value for our company and help the intern learn? Where do we start with this process? If these questions...
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- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
Q: You write a lot about corporate culture in companies such as Zappos. Why is culture so important? A: Morriss: A culture exists to influence how people think, so their discretionary behavior will be consistent with the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
suggestion I have is to increase transparency by requiring all companies that file a proxy statement to include a graph showing executive compensation for the top three or four officers and compensation for the average worker over a...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
evolving, mutually beneficial channel strategies. To navigate the complex distribution environment successfully, companies must map the industry channel, build and continually edit their own channel to best serve customers, and align and...
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Phoebe Peronto
want to be in a position where I can develop other people, especially women.” For her summer internship, Phoebe will take on a corporate development role at Salesforce. “They have a big focus on the company as a family. I View Details
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Tech
- April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Zaplet, Inc.
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey
Start-up Zaplet, Inc., has radical software, prestigious venture capital funding, and a multitude of business opportunities. New CEO Alan Baratz must select a strategy and redesign the organization to deliver. This case describes the roles and philosophies of the...
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Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Information Technology;
Organizational Design;
Venture Capital;
Valuation;
Business Strategy;
Restructuring;
Expansion;
Product Development;
Innovation Strategy;
Human Resources;
Information Technology Industry;
California
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Brian DeLacey. "Zaplet, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 601-165, April 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
not playing by the rules and to recognize and celebrate those who did. —Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) cofounder of West Africa Vocational Education; Social Enterprise track runner-up, 2013 The Value of Slow As one who loves the early-stage...
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