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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Stackpole Books On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
that of Kentucky’s established breeding farms, some of which managed over forty stallions. Clay adopted a boutique approach to guarantee personal service for both the owners and their horses, and serve as a point of differentiation to...
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Art Nature Business
uses a large-format camera to capture the ephemeral atmospheres on film. The result is a strange and beautiful image, one that initially seems to be a document of a real environment, but in the end is merely an artistic illusion. His works View Details
- 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
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
the privilege of collecting loyalty card customer data. As former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy put it in his recent book referring to the 1 percent loyalty discount: "It was a thank you, pure and simple." Can such small rewards...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the copilots, essentially mean that someone with very minimal training up to this point can essentially over a weekend figure it out and, with the copilot, do some level of programming. And that’s pretty powerful. And if you think about...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
madeleine’s iconic shell shape and, if they’re baked properly, the bosse that pops up to create an enticing little bump. Viana points out the bosse as he breaks off a small piece of golden-colored sponge. “I taste them like wine,” he...
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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal The View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
managers. They quickly understood that world-class institutions can't be built by one person. Business is all about helping people do together what they can't achieve on their own. LR: Since RCA and IBM figure prominently in several of your books, let's return to them...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it became is past its apex, and all signs View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
maintaining a long-term strategic plan is of value in thwarting such investors. Executives and directors are advised to analyze their corporations from the point of view of an activist investor, to create harmony within the board of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
studies were less likely to criticize the actions of others when their behavior eroded gradually, over time, rather than in one abrupt shift. We refer to this phenomenon as the slippery slope effect. Our studies also demonstrate that at...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
expatriate employees ride them. By comparison, through the Go-Jek app a user could now summon a ride in seconds just as a New Yorker could summon an Uber. Routes were traceable, fares were calculated transparently, and passengers could pay with cash—a big selling View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
discussion in a way. There isn't a lot of reference being made to principles or broader goals for the tax system, or what we're trying to do with the tax system, aside from growth. Especially in a time where you see a lot of division...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
point repeatedly stressed by transaction cost economics is that the more specific the asset, the more likely is vertical integration to be optimal. In spite of the profusion of empirical papers supporting this prediction, recent surveys...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
got new tools, we’ve got new technology, but in most cases, we’ve leveraged that new technology to just do the same things we’ve always done—faster, maybe. Maybe a little bit better. The opportunity that we’ve taken at Shopify is, actually, what we View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
paid $10,000 tips in cash for chauffeuring these drug dealers. So the point that you make really clearly is that for all of this amazing money that was pouring into the city, the drugs—which were coming with it—were really damaging Miami....
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