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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these excuses. As a result, sales...
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by Bill George
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
chose Salomon. He was smart, ambitious and energized by the hyper-intense Wall Street environment. Becoming an entrepreneur was not yet on his radar screen. At Salomon, he quickly rose through the ranks and eventually ran information...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
owns. Rising through the company's ranks as a financial strategist, he has been CEO since July 1994 and became chairman in April 1995. An integrated paper and forest products company based in Boise, Idaho,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
increases from the arrangement, but critics claim Google would be the ultimate winner by consolidating more power in the market. Edelman prepared the remarks for a June 27, 2008, hearing, which was later rescheduled. Here is the prepared testimony: Chairman Conyers,...
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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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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
counterparts, Hamilton was an unlikely candidate for success on Broadway. The trio needed to decide which of two popular routes was best to bring their new musical to Broadway: either take the production straight to Broadway in a “cold...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
contemplated becoming a professor, but was persuaded to stay on at the School. In 1963, he completed his DBA and joined the faculty. Over the next seventeen years, he moved up through the School’s ranks — teaching finance, writing cases,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
sure that less-represented vendors have access to contracts. But what we’ve done in this moment is really become much more intentional. I think, to some degree, we haven’t been as intentional as we need to be, particularly in the senior View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
benefits associated with IFRS adoption. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-032.pdf The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The central role of "platform" View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
conscious concept of self, is exceedingly difficult and often painful. The simple fact is that American society has a codified racial ranking system deeply embedded in its very roots. Racism has infected the way we think and see the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
usual domain. A couple of months earlier, in February 2014, Viana had read an article in the newspaper Le Parisien about Biscuiterie Jeannette, a company founded in Caen in 1850 and known across France for its madeleines—the shell-shaped little cakes that View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
on building the morale within our agency, building that morale across the federal government. One thing I’ll mention is that we brought back the Presidential Rank Awards, which is this cross-government effort where you recognize senior...
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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19, 1865—more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
based on our financial thresholds. The bulk of the business leaders on our list were culled from an extensive review of historical biographical references and business rankings. The rankings included historical lists by Fortune, Forbes,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
cardinal preferences than the Boston mechanism independently of whether individuals can submit a complete or only a restricted ranking of the schools, and 2) subjects with a higher degree of risk aversion are more likely to play...
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Martha Lagace