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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
resists the change. You take a 300-ton press, and you have one tool that looks like the back side of that and one tool that looks like the front side, and you go like this—BAM!” he says, pounding his palms together. “And the whole...
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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a vendor selling...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to somehow get View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions, and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded put-option in non-recourse mortgages. Our simulations generate...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
invested in India. Companies that stripped out costs in the more competitive environment were able to compete and grow; those that didn’t went bankrupt. That created new opportunities for financial services, Kejriwal adds. “When I came View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In 15 minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal, financial, personal, and funeral documents. For...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Two Great Men of Goldman Sachs In his book The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs (Penguin Press, 2008), Charles D. Ellis (MBA ’63) explores the growth of Wall Street’s most celebrated firm, from its humble origins in 1869 as a dealer in View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
to monetizing news in the digital landscape, which is real-time, searchable, sharable, multi-sourced, anytime, and any screen, were emerging in 2010. Could content creators get people to pay for what they watched, read, listened to, and shared online? Were news...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Another provides a secure portal for patients to make appointments, request prescriptions, and see their test results. Yet another helps doctors get their claims paid on time more easily—according to company research, providers see a 12...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
them. Welcome to you both, thanks for joining us.Pat Petitti: Yeah, thanks for having us, future of work, let's do it.Kerr: All right.Rob Biederman: Great to be here.Kerr: For the record, that was Pat that was quite excited and Rob who was a bit more reserved. So, Rob,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
security types of topics. And that led to my last role at SAP, where I was leading all of what we typically refer to as “sales plays” across applications and infrastructure. Then about six years ago, I got this tremendous opportunity here...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi capabilities to attract...
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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And, to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. This book shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
agricultural innovation, Ibrahim Mustapha is at the vanguard of what could be a green revolution. He belongs to a new farming program called Babban Gona, the brainchild of Kola Masha (MBA 2006) that is aggressively transforming Nigerian subsistence farmers into View Details