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- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already economically View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
Managers are oriented to process, while leaders are attuned to substance. Process is concerned with establishing procedures for solving problems, while substance deals directly with the problems at hand. Process is soon related to obsessive thinking and View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
further developing their product lines to address the emerging need." "All of which must have been faintly depressing if you were the originator of the idea, now seeing your idea being imitated," continues Quelch. "On...
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- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
expressed the frustration that many people in the biotech industry feel as he clicked through the depressing data in gloomy graphs on a big screen. "It's not a very profitable sector of the economy" based on the performance of...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew. I think there's a lingering...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United States and Europe,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
to be clarified. You have to make them when you have to make them. And try not to get too depressed in the journey, because there's a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can't motivate your staff to extraordinary...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
an archaeologist; he said that he was depressed because his life was in ruins. In 1985, I felt the same way, having just been involuntarily released (fired) as CEO of a bank. My late father had founded the parent organization, Michigan...
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
company he built. He was also a gifted entrepreneur. Revson founded a nail polish company, Revlon, on March 1, 1932, in the depths of the depression with paid in capital of $300. When he died in 1975, the market capitalization of Revlon...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
written himself. He oversaw the conversion of an economy that had long been in depression to one of booming prosperity, and he knew that he himself had been the major contributor to the change. As the historian Richard Sylla has pointed...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
We also identify the mediating role that communication and leadership play in generating these effects. We find other-regarding workers tend to depress efforts by 15% on average. However, selfish workers are nearly three times more likely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
performance. To perform the modified Dupont Decomposition, students learn how to reformat and condense the balance sheet and income statement to separately measure profitability arising from operating activities and financing activities. Students also see how excess...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,...
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Garry Emmons
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(like 2008) but a depression (like the 1930s.) Accordingly, we must be prepared to act in ways we’ve never done before. Second, just as doctors in overburdened hospitals, we need to triage with iron discipline. Our support must go to...
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by Danielle Kost
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
business model. A leader in trade analytics and execution for institutional equity investors, ITG had grown since its establishment in 1987 in step with the dramatic rise in equity trading volumes. During 2009, however, investors curbed their equities trading, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from dirt roads to superhighways,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
income, adjusted for inflation, was 300 percent higher than in 1869. Combined with the early 20th century’s rise in leisure time, the use of installment credit, and advertising, Americans acquired a taste for consumer goods and recreation. Even the Great View Details