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- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
embarrassing, and exhausting battling in court, a judge awarded George's branch with 50.5 percent of the company's shares. The judge also wisely mandated a shareholder agreement (unfortunately with a buyout mechanism that was not very...
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Retail
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is finally becoming profitable, the two remaining founders are...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
evaluation of the ideas introduced to see if any of the business models could be applied to a different vertical. That allowed us to be exhaustive in our options and would also ensure that the best industry for the idea could be...
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- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
damage was done, and he came out ahead financially. I've also seen project opponents file frivolous appeals to drag out the approval process in hopes of exhausting the developer. It's disheartening to hear how parties rationalize such...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Upton, the days of installing a system, letting it languish over time until it becomes dysfunctional, and then undertaking a huge, expensive, and exhausting overhaul are gone forever. Replacing this old-fashioned "periodic"...
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by Jim Aisner
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
groups. Moments later I saw a similar plea from a former Black co-worker on LinkedIn – asking for his manager to utter at least one word on the current events. And now there’s this letter series where Black students are yet again View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
said Phillips-Sadler. “What better way to do that than to meet them where they are, and have that seat be in their own home? I can't think of a better way to invite them into our fold while not asking them to exhaust resources.” Out of...
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- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit...
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All Industries
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
modeling he did, the work he accomplished in a short time was exceptional. “Eric did exhaustive research and talked to every single person on the team,” said Dzodan. “The financial model he created was exactly accurate for 9 months (until...
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- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
tell our story so that people could grasp the power of what Facily was trying to do. Ultimately, we were able to put this in action in a number of meetings.” What Westphal accomplished in a short time as the company’s first intern was exceptional, said Dzodan. “Eric...
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Becca Carnahan
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
modeling he did, the work he accomplished in a short time was exceptional. “Eric did exhaustive research and talked to every single person on the team,” said Dzodan. “The financial model he created was exactly accurate for 9 months (until...
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- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
about drop off, then I'm exhausted and I go to little coffee shops and take 30 minutes of just sort of deep breathes and just sort of think about the sort of imprint I want to leave on the day. And so coffee shops are always fun people...
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- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
firm-level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the U.K. retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2002), we look at the contributions of...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
others!)." That said, Gino recently humblebragged on Twitter about the humblebragging research: "So exhausting to keep up with all the people asking for this paper." "That was a joke," she explains. "But people likely disliked the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding, and the business model has yet to gain traction. How should the business model be changed, and should the venture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
these three prompts: I will let go of I am grateful for And I will focus on Thinking about letting go helps crystallize and eject a swirling anxiety. Narrowing our focus helps cut through fogs of cognitive exhaustion and endless decision...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
workers' capacity for growth, and conduct data-based project reviews. To counter the bias toward action—and the unthinking perpetual motion and exhaustion that ensue—leaders can schedule more work breaks and make time for reflection. They...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
for which they lack formal training, and facing painful uncertainty about what happens next, deserve our admiration and gratitude. But that is not enough. At some point (and none of us know exactly when), exhaustion will overwhelm duty....
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by Danielle Kost
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
exhaust can harm children’s brain development and respiratory health.” The question remains whether New York State can access enough electric buses to meet its goals.School bus electrification, with its emphasis on reducing the harmful...
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