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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s...
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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
women's beauty products enterprise Tweezerman faced the dilemma that every entrepreneurial growth company eventually confronts: "How much bigger can we get—can we handle the risk, the scale, the exposure, and the demands on our...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution...
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April White
- Profile
Evan Rachlin
motivate others to perform at their peak." Experiencing management in action Evan applied to the joint MD/MBA program to "learn how to work in and manage large teams," a necessary prerequisite to success in private-sector View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is the View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company? Should I Keep Control Of My Company? Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between wanting to become rich and...
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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new products or...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
deals with ethics, governance, and legal issues. “At that point the case changed to focus on tensions between pricing as a reward for investment in R&D versus making a product available to poor people who...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
are in the midst of what is often described as a gold rush. Is there any danger that firms will fly so high that they may spin out of control? A: The book is built around a number of the tensions that are inherent in all businesses —...
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Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
HBS. "There's the classic tension of product development versus delivering a final product. We'd come up with lots of ideas for the production, but at some point you have to stop developing and put the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have lower levels of productivity, according to Fuller’s...
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- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
celebrate. The influx of wealthier professionals has driven up housing costs, increased the pace of gentrification, and threatened the city's rich racial and socioeconomic diversity. Tensions came to a head in December 2013, when a group...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
knew or understood. "The goodwill earned and accrued by earlier generations of HBS graduates has paved the way for the current generation of HBS students to enjoy access to incredible opportunities, yet with these opportunities comes a great deal of power," Ramanna...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
108-092 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
stresses Margolis, “but also recreate the tension and excitement that happens in an interactive classroom.” Margolis, head of the first-year MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, explains that developing the courses for HBX...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and influence? Are there alliances or...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
Deletion" (AfD) review process if they believe the piece does not live up to those standards. After online debate about the worthiness of the piece, a Wikipedia administrator reviews the arguments and decides the fate of the article. The View Details