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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative...
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- 07 Jul 2017
- News
Can money buy happiness?
- 20 May 2013
- News
5 Ways Money Can Buy Happiness
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are...
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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
enterprise is the best contribution he could ever hope to make to society. "Will the research capability of the company-our ability to discover breakthrough drugs-be stronger when I leave than when I arrived at Merck? Will our company be...
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- June 1999
- Teaching Note
Best Buy TN
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Balaji Chakravarthy
Teaching Note for (9-598-016).
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Retail Industry
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Can money buy happiness?
- 19 Nov 2021
- News
2021’s Best Things to Buy on Black Friday
- 20 May 2013
- News
Use your money to buy happier time
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
cliché that “money can’t buy happiness” and shown it to be false. MN: My collaborator, Elizabeth Dunn [of the University of British Columbia], and I started out looking at whether giving money to others View Details
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April White
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy big, sell small
cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of...
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- 31 Aug 2021
- News
Why the Global Chip Shortage Is Making It So Hard to Buy a Ps5
- October 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)
It is 1995 and Steinway & Sons has just been purchased by two young entrepreneurs. For 140 years, Steinway has held the reputation for making the finest quality grand pianos in the world. The past 25 years have proven to be a challenge, however. First, the company has...
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Business Startups;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Crisis Management;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Quality;
Competitive Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
New York (state, US)
Gourville, John T., and Joseph B. Lassiter III. "Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-028, October 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Which will make you happier: Buying a new couch or going on a trip?
- June 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home
By: Charles F. Wu, Steven Hirsch, Beatrice Liem, Kevin Ryan and Derrick Snyder
Peter and Kate Rose are a young couple looking to buy their first home in the Boston area. They have narrowed down a target list to three homes, but are also considering whether it makes sense to buy a home in the first place. They must make decisions regarding which...
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Real Estate;
Real Assets;
Investing;
Personal Investing;
Brokerage;
Housing;
Property;
Private Ownership;
Investment;
Real Estate Industry;
United States;
Boston;
New England;
Massachusetts;
North America
Wu, Charles F., Steven Hirsch, Beatrice Liem, Kevin Ryan, and Derrick Snyder. "To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home." Harvard Business School Case 215-080, June 2015. (Revised January 2016.)
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
Video directed and produced by Joanie Tobin Conventional wisdom says that money can't buy happiness. Behavioral science begs to differ. In fact, research shows that money can make us happier—but only if we...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
and make decisions based on assumptions about the future. The problem: Most of these prophecies about what is to come are basically straight-line extrapolations of a few weeks of data or sermons about what that prophet believes should...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- August 2018
- Teaching Note
Magpie: Developing and Using Buyer Personas
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-013. Magpie is a startup with a platform that allows publishers to natively tag the products discussed in their content and thus allows consumers to purchase those products without needing to leave that publisher’s web page. A key aspect...
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