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- 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
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
experience got me thinking that my employment opportunities had been geographically circumscribed by differences in the enforcement of noncompetes between states. While no one has conducted an exhaustive survey, several scholars' results...
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by 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 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
players—for example, McDonald's in fast food—have the resources that allow them to exhaustively study locations and build at only the most sure-fire of them. Other fast-food outlets and retailers seeking roughly the same customers may...
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by David Stauffer
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
remaining founders are embroiled in exhausting fights over how aggressively the company should try to grow, and those fights are threatening to derail Lynx's recent success. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
exhaustive search during which she learned a lot from all kinds of constituencies. I have had the benefit of hearing her distillation of that input. I’m also talking with key staff, and I’m reaching out to our alumni around the world. I...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and we'll work together to fix it.' They weren't encumbered by a lot of the exhaustive self-doubt that you often find in other disciplines. That was surprising and appealing to me. HBS gave me much greater precision about motives,...
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- 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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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
away by hand. In the air was an acrid smell, unlike anything I'd ever experienced. Everywhere on the ground, there were empty shoes." Exhausted in body and spirit, Lhota went home and napped. When he awoke, for a split second his mind was...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
electronic ink — not end products,” Wilcox says, “and we bet everything that electronic publishing would become a big industry.” The move came too late, and by January 2004, the remaining technical issues had exhausted the last of the...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of September 11, 2001. She spent a year...
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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
strategy to provide textbooks for college accounting courses. The Joffes are trying to raise private equity financing, but market conditions have made it difficult and the company is at risk of exhausting the senior Joffe's savings. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
affairs in our chapter in The Support Economy called "The Transaction Crisis." Cost reduction has continued to be the dominant strategy under managerial capitalism because new sources of wealth creation are increasingly elusive. That very problem is the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
I was surprised by how powerful my baby's smiles are! I find myself saying "Kaleel you're so cute" like ten times a day. There have been times when I'm exhausted at whatever time in the morning breastfeeding and he'll give me a little...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
process, just grueling. Public and, you know, Jack was like the most famous business leader probably in the history of the world. Because, you know, the markets were booming. He was really famous. And so, you know, it was all like spotlights all the time. So it was an...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the ability to choose when you work and not being physically tied to a nine-to-five commuting setup. Then, especially if people are in a lot of different time zones, a downside of it is work can spill over into every waking moment and become totally View Details