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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
seemed to be a different kind of conversation going on among the women. I thought it would be worthwhile to bring a group of them together to pursue these conversations further. In addition, I knew that there were (and are) a lot of programs for women around the...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
what visibility they give you, and what challenges they give you. I've had the blessing of great bosses, one after the other. I believe that I owe a great deal of my success to my early bosses." CURRENT READING Just for Fun: The Story of...
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- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting
balance. While it's critical to love and enjoy the work, you also have to consider your level of skill and the prospects for continuous improvement, how the work is valued by society, and the daily rhythm that the job creates. After about...
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Consulting
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
the business world, succession planning.” Yet the impact and frequency of disasters has increased, Beer notes, making it even more important for businesses to integrate disaster preparedness into daily operations: “The vulnerability of...
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Julia Hanna
- Profile
Kimball Thomas
administration, and I was the only intern in the West Wing,” Kimball says. “Practically every advisor was at my door, vying for the President’s time. I prepared his daily calendar and conducted preliminary trip research. All this – and it...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
address these challenges. We presented those discussions and the results to our colleagues at the colloquium and asked for their views. Do CEOs see these threats as imminent? In a sense, some of these issues are now factoring into daily...
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- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
food safety inspectors on their daily rounds. This allowed her to see firsthand how seriously inspectors took their jobs, how they made decisions, and the challenges they faced in the course of their workdays. “I’m impressed with...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
addressed at the same time to keep the deal on track. In the end, management devised a whole new way of reporting the company's earnings, to address a deficiency in GAAP reporting rules as they pertain to employee buyouts. It took more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
business and the company's strategy. In a service business like Tesco's, the health of the brand depends heavily on the quality of the millions of daily transactions between shoppers and staff. Motivating the front-line personnel is...
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by John Quelch
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
in sales respectively. Most companies in the industry were valued at $1 million per employee, and this company had 40. However, NASDAQ had just dropped about 20% (April, 2000), and voices predicting the end of the tech stocks' ride were appearing View Details
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
agreement to pay Media General $142 million for its weekly and daily newspapers and real-estate holdings, and a credit agreement that included a $400 million term loan. Speculating about Buffett's apparent change of heart regarding...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
growing up in Bern, Switzerland, centered around a daily occurrence that is almost unimaginable in today's world: "You always came home for lunch," he says, recalling that the family would sit down to eat and listen to the news on the...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
study topic." Buffett's offer consisted of an asset agreement to pay Media General $142 million for its weekly and daily newspapers and real-estate holdings, and a credit agreement that included a $400 million term loan. Speculating about...
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- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the scene, which had seemingly possessed all that was needed for a successful rescue. Yet they failed to save anybody. Drawing on the recollections and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
party are past. But you must deal with the people who can run the country. The USA will end up imposing a regime similar to that ousted. Internationalising the conflict by handing authority to the UN would restore legitimacy but not...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Integrity in all dealings means taking the interests of other parties taken into account, operating with a long-term perspective rather than short-term greed or sensationalism. Anything for a deal or...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Strategic Channel Selection with Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Industry By: Zhang, Lingling, and Doug J. Chung Abstract—The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
people in their environments, to help them deal with triggering experiences. That’s when I thought, Wow, people need to know about this. Now I teach workshops with Black employee resource groups about how mindfulness and breath work can...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
get. Our intelligence community has become too risk averse, and we've erected legal barriers that prevent us from dealing with the very kind of unsavory individuals who have access to the sort of information we need. Those shortcomings...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
leader in question is experiencing a life-and-death dilemma—if he doesn’t get it right, he’d be killed. It’s very, very exaggerated. We’d ask, “How is this speaking to you?” Everyone would start by acknowledging that death was not a serious View Details
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Julia Hanna