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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
always a good thing. Getting excited too early can lead you to act rashly and gloating about the final terms can alienate your counterparts. But if feelings of excitement, like other emotions, are well managed, everyone can feel like a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
terms of the strokes or putts gained per round relative to the field. Using this metric, we can determine what portion of a player's overall performance is due to advantage (or loss) gained through putting, and conversely, what portion of...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
term and long term trade-offs. Christina Feller (MBA 1982), principal, Heritage Health Consulting & Publishing, Portland, Maine Leaders are open to change. But the basics still apply: Leaders move people...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political and business leaders in View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
those with strong financial performance (which are very highly correlated), are likely to receive an "initial bargain" and then switch suppliers or use legacy systems, rather than pay locked-in rates. The "best" customers in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
is a no-brainer in terms of quality of life and money saved over the time your children are in school. I know it’s not easy to do, but spend time researching and if necessary downgrade jobs or move to a different school—you will not...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
goods marketing, what we collective teaching novices (Professors Cunningham, Cox, Heskett et al) termed the “armpit” portion of the first year marketing course. While we were also taught the mantra that “wisdom can't be told” and that we...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Dean Nitin Nohria. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big dreams—in effect, spurring our intellectual ambition—he set the School on a remarkable trajectory.”...
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Dean
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
market price and things like that. So I guess I could give a lot of credit to the Harvard Business School training, you know of really looking in detail There are actual people that are, you know, handling orders, setting prices,...
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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Economic Forum, 2009 Abstract Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
is going to improve their bottom line is a start.” #2: Change the Image The Perkins Fund does not invest exclusively in women founders, but in the 10 years since Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) founded the firm, about 50 percent of the companies she has funded have had...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
component firms and sustain overall system-level innovation over the longer term. We present two longitudinal case studies, drawn from the IT industry, which provide contrasting examples of outsourcing strategies in terms of the number of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
requires upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
convertible preferred stock? Why do they stage the commitment of capital? Why do they intervene and try to be helpful—or in some cases, screw things up? “So our thinking got sharper. Yes, from whom you raise money can be as important as the terms—but the View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
is going to improve their bottom line is a start.” #2: Change the Image The Perkins Fund does not invest exclusively in women founders, but in the 10 years since Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) founded the firm, about 50 percent of the companies she has funded have had...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
have had women founders. Perkins credits this balanced portfolio to her extended network, which includes more women entrepreneurs than that of the typical male venture capitalist. In her experience, the same pattern-matching and emphasis...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
needed something where they wouldn't get slapped on the wrist by procurement or by their boss. You know they couldn't use something where they were describing a proprietary project launching into the ether paying in a credit card. We...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
diversity in the field of economics. Bill Kerr: What’s the cost of discrimination? We typically think in terms of the individuals or the groups affected. But racial and gender inequality also depress productivity at the national level....
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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
driven retailers is that all players are reasonably satisfied with their current market share. If some players want to gain share at the cost of profitability, then loyalty systems can escalate into intense price wars from which shoppers win short View Details