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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
how each of them had a great influence on the way my thinking has been applied in my chosen field." "C. Roland Christensen had the greatest impact on me," notes Feeley. "He got me focused on strategy and policy issues. I've spent all of...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
former partner and current HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart (MBA '81, DBA '95) - Stemberg created a company whose sales of $3.1 billion in 1995 are expected to surpass $10 billion when a merger with Office Depot becomes official...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
was terrible.” But he did seem to have something to say. During his summer breaks, Singer interned at Nickelodeon, working in the strategy and legal groups and later following up that experience with a stint at the Disney Channel. “The...
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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal strategy of targeting such threats. As a result, the American financial system was left more vulnerable than ever to a major shock." Given this record of regulatory failure and neglect,...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
the goals of marketers and its employment of technology to facilitate using the Web as an advertising vehicle. In addition to acting as a sales representative for select Web site publishers and advertisers, the company licenses the...
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Susan Young
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
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
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big data obtained from Google Analytics and the company’s own sales and customer databases to select the next season’s assortment. Peck was...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-403 Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy By 2015, there had been an upsurge in activist shareholders arguing for radical changes in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
We close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
find yourself as someone with such a deep and distinguished history in working with HR professionals and studying these issues?Bersin: Well, in my case, it was a complete accident. I spent about 20 years in sales and marketing and product...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
and he saw soliciting other firms’ clients as unprofessional. Sidney Weinberg would see no merit in making any change . For Whitehead, there were two important dimensions to the problem with Wall Street’s traditional practice of just one investment banker doing it all...
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Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
without their consent. Yet, sometimes honesty does hurt and bad guys do win. Thus, the fact that creative managers can often come up with strategies that are fair to non-shareholder constituencies while still maximizing shareholder value...
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by Carla Tishler
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Laurel House, he walks by a dresser bearing a runner woven by a student, along with a note explaining that similar runners are for sale at the school’s gift shop, which Marietta’s wife, Sky, has stocked with locally produced body...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208147 The Concept of...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
harming its own sales or those of its retail customers? Could Unilever encourage industry-wide changes to have a real impact on global environmental sustainability? Purchase this case:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
leadership position in the cosmetics industry. "I researched different companies in Baker Library, called HBS alumni to find out about contacts, and finally wrote directly to L'Oreal," he recalls. "The HBS name certainly opened doors." Baeza is pleased with his career...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
is related to higher UK CEO pay; however, the effect is similar when UK firms have a listing in any foreign country implying a foreign listing effect not unique to the U.S. Product market relationships measured by the extent of sales in...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
have all been to training programs. And then you go back, and then you are in a poisonous environment. And so nothing happens. A big lesson is that, as important as the strategy work, as important as training, as important as values, is...
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