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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
grenade, which is a very unsophisticated weapon, in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountains, where you can't get around easily. And so to be in the right place at the right time with that kind of a weapon system, it just wasn't making...
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- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
PublicationsPricing to Create Shared Value Authors:Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
"Clicks and Mortar." [Image: iStock] Related Reading How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Research Paper Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
joined this train of thought as he commented, “A new economy has not arrived, if we define it as one that will sustain humanity on the planet for eternity ” The reasons it has not arrived are many, he continued. “(Unsustainable) global population terror View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
in the bud if the United States had handed over administration of the country to the Iraqi opposition. The Americans could have come in, overthrown the regime, spent maybe a few weeks looking for weapons of mass destruction, and then...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
heartbeat spiked and my hands started to tremble slightly. I took a couple of deep breaths and started scanning for targets. Through the remote weapon system, I saw five individuals maneuvering amongst prepared fighting positions. I began...
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons of choice. It worked so well that spending by US...
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by George Riedel
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
content, Kate’s finding suggests that the interviewer might infer that you’re shallow that you do not like intellectual programming, for example.” Finally, the research findings provide a weapon against self-doubt. John recalls a recent...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
then relatively obscure field of microfinance. As the head of ACCION International, a global microfinance organization, Chu helped develop microfinance into a global weapon against poverty while establishing it as a legitimate component...
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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the 19th century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
wouldn’t participate in the protest, and some hurled rocks and other projectiles at those in Go-Jek uniforms caught in the fray. Police wielding semiautomatic weapons were called in to help restore order. What was different in Jakarta...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measure of trust from the mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives living at the compound. The CSTs were able to search adult women for weapons and gather crucial intelligence. They could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
increasingly aggressive rival as the century lengthens. These threats will take on many forms including terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the breakout of wars with the potential to become nuclear exchanges....
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
divisiveness and elevate their stature, which will soften the opposition block. Biden and Harris have a secret weapon in the quest for unity: the idealism of young people. Let the young lead. National service programs can be used to bring...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
destroying individuals and families. In recent years, as the opioid crisis swept the country, the organization shifted to a broader focus, re-branded as the Georgia Prevention Project. Now Langford wants to stem the spread of opioids with those same View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/617039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-060 Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang Napalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
be allowed to play. Sanctions add teeth to accountability. But the work should be a motivating opportunity for success rather than a weapon for punishment. Leaders of successful teams and organizations have high standards and punish...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter