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- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
the heart of the company is very much tied to the economy. And so with the amount of debt we had, we had no margin. So we had to file for bankruptcy in late 1990. My hope was to preserve the company and family control. And what I ended up...
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- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
required to produce four reports for Congress, the last of which is due on March 11, 2009. Read the reports at www.cop.senate.gov/. In addition to shoring up ailing banks, should TARP funds be used to help homeowners avoid default on their mortgages? I believe that the...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, was a driving force in PELP's creation. He stresses that raising educational outcomes across the board is at the heart of the initiative's mission. "The challenge is to build great...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
businesses are shut out of the Paycheck Protection Program. How long do you expect people to tolerate such consistent failure to uphold a semblance of equity? The movements also represent a refusal to continue accepting a fallacious and...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
platforms, and hybrid platforms. We suggest that the world is moving towards more and more hybrids, and we identify the key steps in building a successful platform. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all: mispricing, mistrust,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Heart Harvard Business School Case 507-025 The firm has to choose between an established brand, Tanishq, and a new skunkworks brand, GoldPlus, to go after the Indian plain gold jewelry market: Tanishq, initially targeted at a western...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55514 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Innovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. They’re characterized...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes in cortisol level, heart rate, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win by Chris Kuenne (MBA 1989) and John Danner (HBR Press) The most important factor shaping the success or failure of a new business is the personality of the builder―the founder or leader’s...
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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
innovation. In this episode of Skydeck, I talk to Professor Christensen about the theory at the heart of his new book, and how it has affected not only how he thinks about business, but how he thinks about his family. READ MORE Dan...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
for a better future. What is the role of research at HBS? Roy Zider (MBA 1970), Oakland, California NN: Research is the heart and soul of any great university. It is the way our faculty members develop a deep understanding of management...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a...
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Julia Hanna
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
research on the ways in which work and workplace quality influence people’s well-being around the world. It also highlights a number of best practices that may inspire policy-makers and business leaders in putting well-being at the heart...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on transient public policies and...
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Sean Silverthorne