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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
funding. Guided by cofounders Sapone and Beck, the service currently operates in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. It wasn’t the only great idea to come out of the initial Lockdown. “At the end of the week we were very sure this...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
say, 'I want to help. I may not be perfect, but I buy into your vision.'" Other recommendations are more intuitive, such as learning the new CEO's working style, understanding his or her agenda, and helping him or her look good in the new position by achieving...
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Martha Lagace
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
The tunnel is being completed on time and under budget. A private investment firm operates the concession under strict performance standards. Infrastructure doesn't seem cool to the young. Rising entrepreneurs think small, private, and...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia should absolutely not be in the cell phone business. (Nokia...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a German subsidiary under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. To successfully reorganize as a going concern, the company sought to raise over $8 billion in a super-priority...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
were you doing when you heard the news? Merton: I was just about ready to leave for an early morning flight to New York. The phone rang in my apartment at about quarter to six. I could easily have been out the door. I answered the phone,...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
car care. Acquiring eight auto shops in Utah in 1979, he launched Jiffy Lube International Inc. (JLI), which today operates more than 1,300 stores nationwide through franchised and company-owned service centers. In 1990, Hindman sold JLI...
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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
[Harpo Productions] has a sense of that.—Nancy Koehn "For example, no one starts a meeting at Harpo without stating, 'Here is my intention.' It operates this way at high levels in the company as well as on day-to-day tactical...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
do have so few opportunities in today's world to do that kind of work. It seems we always have our phones with us and our work with us, and it gets harder and harder to step out of that, I think. DiDonna: One of the questions I often get...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
communicating, such as letters and phone calls. Robert C. Berner (MBA '36), who has served as class secretary for 43 years, is in regular contact with his classmates. "The class is my extended family," Berner says. "Not many days go by...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects investment decisions in multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that foreign subsidiaries in country-industries with more transparent information...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
This case study explores organizational design and incentive choices related to building a middle management layer as a company scales up its operations. Go Mobile, an Indian mobile phone retailer, uses high-powered incentives to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
ended up placing several players there, and within a matter of a couple years, all of a sudden I found that I had about three dozen players in maybe 10 different countries. And then calls started coming in. Remember, this is before emails and the-- so most of the...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
made.” Richard Bailey: Paradise Saved PRESERVING TWO ENVIRONMENTS: Bailey at his workplace. Tetiaroa © timmckenna.com On the phone was The Godfather, calling to ask a favor, and Richard Bailey (MBA 1981) just couldn’t refuse. It was ten...
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- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Wilson. Paul Milgrom: Yeah? BW: You’ve won the—you’ve won the Nobel Prize. And so they’re trying to reach you, but they cannot, they don’t seem to have a number for you. Mary: We gave them your cell phone number. JH: Actually, they both...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
substantially fewer violations. With improved compliance, channel prices increase by 2% without loss in volume. The reduction in violations is particularly stark among authorized retailers with lower sales volume, those that previously View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
technology and processes to support customers that align with their entrepreneurial culture. If you are a professional today buying from Home Depot, an app on your phone lets you order directly from the job site and gives you the option...
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- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
was always trying to come back to that and find answers that fit within their needs that also fit in the needs of the others. You don't learn those things at a negotiation table. You learn a bit of it. A lot of that comes through talking over coffee, talking on the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particularly well. Kerr: Matt, let me build upon that final thought about, what is the competition for talent. And if I think of the two markets you’re operating in—IT and life sciences—both are characterized by vigorous competition for...
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