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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
associate dean and MBA Program chair W. Carl Kester noted that while the two-cohort system had met its educational objectives and contributed numerous innovations, a special faculty and administrative staff steering committee found that...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the numbers, that's becoming less and less true." —Stacey Childress STUDENT-CENTRIC SCHOOLS "Our old system worked well enough for an industrial-based economy. In a knowledge-based economy, we need an individualized, personalized approach...
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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have to look deeper. And look...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
noncompetitive technology development while contributing to national economic growth and global competitiveness. In Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D; Consortia, Professor Emeritus Ray Corey examines the...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
company in 1979, Mixon had only $10,000 of the $7.8 million asking price. But he managed to raise the rest and led the company to annual revenues of $1.5 billion (those early investors have seen Invacare’s stock grow from 2¢ to $25 a...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Esty shares. "He once said: 'With few exceptions, when a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.' That...
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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Gridlock and Save Our Democracy. The mission of Reform Elections Now is to facilitate election reform through education and engagement, with practical solutions that will enhance informed discourse, increase voter participation and...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to share.” "I didn't understand why people were putting all this View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- Article
On Balance: A CFO Interview
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "On Balance: A CFO Interview." CFO 17, no. 2 (February 2001): 72–78.
- May 2001 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Cisco Systems: Building Leading Internet Capabilities
By: Richard L. Nolan and Christina L. Darwall
Cisco has invested in building a leading IT, Internet-based infrastructure. This case describes Cisco's latest efforts to broaden Internet capabilities in the company from 30% to 60% penetration. The strategy is intended to sustain Cisco's double-digit revenue growth...
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Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Revenue;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L., and Christina L. Darwall. "Cisco Systems: Building Leading Internet Capabilities." Harvard Business School Case 301-133, May 2001. (Revised December 2001.)
- December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
i2 Technologies, Inc.
By: Ananth Raman and Jasjit Singh
Describes the emergence and growth of i2 Technologies and the supply chain planning software industry. In December 1998, i2's market capitalization was in excess of $2 billion; the supply chain planning software industry had annual sales of approximately $1 billion and...
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Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Information Technology Industry
Raman, Ananth, and Jasjit Singh. "i2 Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 699-042, December 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
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The U.S. Cable Television Industry, 1948-1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse
By: T. R. Eisenmann
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Management Systems;
Television Entertainment;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, T. R. "The U.S. Cable Television Industry, 1948-1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse." Business History Review 74, no. 1 (Spring 2000).
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be...
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- June–July 2014
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Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams
By: Pamela J. Hinds, Tsedal Neeley and Catherine Durnell Cramton
Through an ethnographic study comprised of interviews with and observations of 96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in...
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Equality and Inequality;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Groups and Teams;
Applications and Software;
Emotions;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Power and Influence;
Information Technology Industry
Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams." Journal of International Business Studies 45, no. 5 (June–July 2014): 536–561.
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students...
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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
and the recent allegations against the Firm's former Managing Director, Rajat Gupta. Three months earlier Senior Partner, Anil Kumar, plead guilty to providing confidential information about McKinsey clients...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
systemic risk. The reality is that these companies are inefficient producers that have consistently lost out to foreign-owned competition. They’ve had years to get their house in order and they failed. And what we now need to do is to...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional open and VC-backed...
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