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- 01 Oct 1996
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Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
failed in the face of an economic downturn in the United States and an onslaught of competitors. After a period of consolidation, the company is now looking for more opportunities abroad and has recently...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
less than $30,000. Wearing her global hat, Erika congratulated Europeans for their EV adoption and lamented that fewer than 2% of vehicles sold in the United States are electric vehicles. She noted that...
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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
"changes in firm performance account for only 4 percent of the variance in CEO pay." That said, to what extent can you really argue that a CEO can affect the stock price of a company? There may be some connection, but the state...
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by Jim Aisner
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007 highs. While the United States...
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- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
and risk-taking was especially high," he says. "But this was widespread across Europe, and has been observed in India, China, and the United States to some extent. Politicians are kind of the same all over...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
in the U.S. Army following the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Dan attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 2010 with a B.S. in French. An avid fan of RuPaul's...
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Working with Professors at HBS - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author...
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- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
taking the organization in the wrong direction. How will the divisions between the northern and southern units play out? Will they tear the organization apart, just when it is becoming a global player?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
of Business Administration at HBS, and Karim Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who gave a talk entitled, Competing in the Age of AI. Iansiti is head of the HBS Technology and Operations Management (TOM) View Details
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Maurice Taylor
from those motivations and fears. The reality is, a strong financial system requires the best and the brightest to develop appropriate regulations – not just for the good of the United States, but for the entire global economy.”
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Michelle Giguere
inherent differences between running a brand in China versus running one in the United States." Overall, Michelle's HBS experience to date has given her renewed perspective on her career. "Realizing how many options there are...
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Clayton Christensen's Cold Call, by DeLonn Crosby, HBS Class of 2007 - Forum for Growth
profit” because focusing on the wrong measures and receiving money from the wrong sources can be destructive. It certainly seems that there is a lot of “bad money” in circulation today. For example, the United View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
environment. The impact of a $500 million deal here is probably greater than a $5 billion deal in the United States — typically such a deal would be an industry trendsetter or a sector’s first-ever...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
chosen a leader from outside its ranks in its century-long history in the United States. Recruited from Becton Dickinson, a maker of medical devices, he was an outsider not only to Merck, but to "Big Pharma" as well. "Members of the...
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Florence Evina-Ze
and improve customer satisfaction. “In the United States,” Florence says, “the waitstaff are motivated by tips. That doesn’t exist in Chinese culture.” The team spent a week interviewing employees and customers, then arrived at some “very...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
the biggest medical insurer in the United States; one of the top-ranked hospitals in the world; and a multiyear research project at HBS that aims to repair the American health-care system. In billing for services, value-based health care...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the ship apart and putting it back together again. It should be getting under way again in the spring, probably without me. I think I’ll be transferring to a shore station next. (JH, ed.) A former ambassador to the Netherlands and a 23-year veteran of the View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according to Robert S. Huckman, Professor and Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum. Studying teams in...
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- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600 firms in the United View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow, her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone...
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