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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Business School Case 409-060 This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
food improvements started with its nuggets, with McDonald’s announcing in August 2016 that the nuggets would no longer contain artificial preservatives. This past March, it revealed that next year it would be using View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Kevin J., and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
lawyers inevitably start to keep work to themselves as the firm navigated an ever-more competitive environment? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-097 Singapore Metals Limited...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
York, Los Angeles, and Denver have worked with private partners to emphasize public transportation and start to de-emphasize single-driver cars. Despite obvious obstacles (e.g., you live in a suburb or own a store that can be accessed...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
what does that reality look like? To further understand the families behind the statistics, we asked alumni to offer stories from their successes and struggles—their doubts, their decisions, and their daily routines. “I returned at Booz Allen Hamilton View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
graduating students to be productive employees from day one. Prior to Covid, most of the new hires that we make come out of, they’re recent graduates of post-secondary schools, within a two-hour drive of Chattanooga. That’s certainly View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the recollections of an enraged top executive who started out with the company as a part-time store clerk in the summer of 1938: "After almost twenty years of steady decline and cutbacks, a debilitating paralysis had overtaken most stores...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
person you couldn’t take your eyes off for a minute. He got me motivated to start a business.” His lectures were so memorable and controversial — he once lectured his students on how to pick a wife — that many former students who have...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other low-priced retailers? Would the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
the team decided to descend. The storm lasted four more days. When it was finally over, the men crawled through the deep, fresh snow in the unending Alaskan twilight. Just after sunrise on June 8, they reached the elusive summit. Those...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
started probably on the order of 20 years ago, that has just grown hugely and become a very influential force in the software industry from a standing start. Tell us about your journey into the company and how you find yourself in your...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Business School Case 517-073 BASF: Co-Creating Innovation (A) In 2016, BASF's chief executive officer and chief technology officer reflected on the co-creation innovation program started almost 18 months ago as part of BASF's 150th...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't...
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by Martha Lagace
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Art Nature Business
does the earth feel like to touch? What does the smell of fresh icy mountain breeze taste like? Painting is my gateway to connect with nature on a deeper level." KIM KEEVERJuly 6, 2004Chromogenic printSchwartz Art Collection, Harvard...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his promises of a View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Your Way through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky (MBA 2009) Portfolio We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and...
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