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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
capabilities in maintaining and upgrading product portfolios through acquisition and divestiture. Acquisitions were financed almost wholly out of retained earnings and income received from divestitures. The resulting overall financial record was impressive. In 1991 its...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a "thank-you" to the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
participation have gained strong support among scholars and practitioners of development. Yet the questionable assumptions about culture and development that inform these initiatives render it unclear as to whether and how community...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J....
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unexplored, Whitman and Katzenberg say. (photo by Getty/Bloomberg) The demo is the work of director Doug Liman, one of several filmmakers Whitman and Katzenberg consulted to reimagine how a film could be shot, edited, and rendered with a...
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
managerial paradox: executives must both preserve and change aspects of the business that once made them successful but could render the organization obsolete in the near future. This module will examine several mature businesses that...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
exploitation tends to drive out exploration, rendering organizations rigid and vulnerable to environmental change. Drawing on the Carnegie School, we propose a model where perturbation moderates the relationship between exploitation and...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that’s really been rendered out there—those are some of the things we really worry about, particularly as coming back to work is slower. Those are the businesses that are really going to suffer. I look out my window here in the financial...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets within nonprofit organizations, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less effective. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one thing in common: Each had assisted HBS professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin in their...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
things only. They're either trying to surf the web and word process or they're trying to do that plus render photos and videos. MacBook, MacBook Pro. For cost differences, here's one that's mobile. Here's one that's not. There's a four...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
entity and everyone’s journey is different. Right at the beginning, however, I got my first look at the tangible impact to people’s lives that made my experience truly unforgettable. It was only my second week as a Naval officer when I found myself conning the ship in...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
operations researchers have recognized that organizations can increase efficiency by adhering strictly to proven process templates, thereby rendering operations more stable and predictable. For several decades, researchers have also...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
firms often fail to take advantage of innovations that involve combining resources from distinct divisions. This failure of cross-line-of-business innovation is a consequence of design choices employed to execute the firm's strategy: in organizing around its core...
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Martha Lagace
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Print View - Course Catalog
field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the present. At the same time, the course will take deep, vertical looks at both the differences and nuances that render...
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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