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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
You can’t be that impatient. Another lesson from top-tier venture groups is the importance of a global perspective when it comes to best practices and competitive strategies. The smart venture firms make global connections. Too often,...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
at-home access to devices and the internet is a must-have. I hope this crisis changes our mindset about that. Khan Academy doesn’t solve that problem, but we can use our soapbox to help advocate for that. There seems to be writing on the...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
worked at Bain long enough to get that “business is war” mindset — don’t turn your back too long or else.... What’s the most rewarding aspect of your job? Seeing the impact of HBR. I recently gave a speech to a group of CEOs, and one of...
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- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
"Early on, they may think that they understand the other side, but sometimes asking a question once is not enough," Mohan says. "You often need to explore the other side's interests and true alternatives more deeply, or things can go wrong. We get people...
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- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and reissued this spring, “Leadership has always been hard, and in a world in which the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
"get excited"), which lead them to feel more excited, adopt an opportunity mindset (as opposed to a threat mindset), and improve their subsequent performance. These findings suggest the importance of arousal congruency during...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to relax, to engage with and develop...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew the consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
insurance and bank supervision) worked to stabilize the financial system; (2) that the financial catastrophe of 2007-2009 was not an accident, but rather a mistake, driven by a deregulatory mindset that took 50 years of post-New Deal...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
control our own destiny and what our funders might want to prioritize? What makes our work distinctive, and what competitive advantages can we sustain over time? If we give ourselves permission to change the way we present ourselves to...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
finance, when more attention should be paid to getting out in the field to find out what’s really going on and why. If teaching becomes largely quantitative and the computer is the dominant resource, case writing and field research become relatively less important, and...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high rates of property crime, a strong presence of multi-market vs. local banks, higher levels of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
not enough if we want a competitive advantage. In Smarter Together, Coupa Software CEO Rob Bernshteyn explains how we will soon be able to draw upon the intelligence of the community—collectively what we, and the organizations we work...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
philosophical tone in his 1981 inaugural address when he famously observed: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a "market knows best" mindset took hold in...
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