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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in the sales cycle. Things were going quite well, Riesenfeld...
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- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
means to live in an era of globalization in a way that is far from abstract or academic." Needless to say, there are also many moments of revelation in the classroom. In a case discussion on Mary Kay cosmetics and the company's strategic use of pink Cadillacs as a...
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- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
me whether almonds or peanuts were healthier, I would have said almonds, hands down. But it’s not true! Peanuts are just as nutritious as almonds, except that the almond companies were able to much more effectively market their product,...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
stepmother's homespun culinary skills, he created "Uncle Dave's Vermont-Made Old-Fashioned Ketchup," an all-natural, spoonable condiment in a jar whose time had apparently come; after just two weeks of sales the tasty sauce brought in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workers or inventors or Nobel—they’re all going to point in a similar direction, and it’s really going to be more of a matter of degree. How strong is the effect that we’re talking about that does that? I have one kind of funny, I...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
place?Silas: So we’re very focused on collaboration tools. We’re very focused on studying the effectiveness of teams. We’ve had a lot of chatter around how we’ve thought about meeting times, and we have a great philosophy around, we call...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
of product, and then more than quadrupled sales the following year. In 2012, a year the company invested in a dedicated processing facility, it sold more than 70 tons, and were on track to source 100 tons from smallholders in 2013. In the...
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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
considerably more to the community and were much more involved in civic leadership at the local level than non-locally headquartered companies. So, while companies may be globalizing in terms of sales and operations, their social spending...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
emphasis toward xerography characterized the Haloid Company in the 1950s. In 1961, in recognition of the spectacular growth of sales engendered by the first plain-paper copier, the firm was renamed the Xerox Corporation. In response to...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
address, "We don't use the word 'revolution' lightly, loosely, or often at Harvard." Yet as he and almost every other conference speaker went on to affirm, the radical changes being effected by today's information technology amount to...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
humanizing effect on a lot of us and on how we approach business. I always knew that success would enable me to be able to take care of my family and have control over my own destiny. But what I didnÕt realize is how much it would mean to...
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Deborah E. Blagg
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
discovery, in drug development, in clinical trials, and in sales and marketing—where AI helps individuals make better decisions faster based on more data than they could possibly understand on their own. So I think that AI is an enhancer...
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- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
thermometer, like those often used in fundraising campaigns, to hang in her salon. Each condom sale garnered a star stamped on the thermometer, providing a visual measure of the stylist's contribution to AIDS prevention in her community....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. Millennium Pharmaceuticals: Alan Crane (photo: Shelly R. Harrison) As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic material is developed, however, many believe...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing" decision. Very few respondents choose declining real payout streams over flat or increasing real payout streams of equivalent expected present...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Economic Council Larry Summers—examined the decisions they made and steps they took to try to stabilize the financial system. Professors Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein co-chaired the conference to, in Greenwood’s words, “better understand the past and prepare...
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- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred to as the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. Towards the beginning of the selling...
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Carmen Nobel