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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
customers use Starbucks as a regular hangout or informal office — a "third place" between home and work. How has this aspect of the stores evolved over time? In the beginning, we knew on an intuitive level that Starbucks was about far...
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- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
findings, we consider both information and social factors. We find that firms are more likely to protect proximate employees in soft information industries (i.e., when View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Program
Program for Leadership Development
step toward becoming a member of the global HBS alumni community Who Should Attend PLD is designed for executives preparing for career growth who want to expand their hard and soft skills and refine their personal leadership style to...
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- 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12
and other service providers, lessons from this case are applicable for teaching about institutional change, procurement processes relevant to many fields, and how to increase rigor in typically informal business processes. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 5-Year Data SummaryCFO LetterFinancial HighlightsStatement of Activity & Cash FlowsConsolidated Balance SheetSupplemental Financial Information Harvard Business School (HBS) remained financially...
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- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
purchase that follows an ad-click (CPA). Our analysis extends classic auction results by allowing players to make bids using two different pricing schemes, while the driving information for bidders' endogenous selection—the conversion...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
Case 706-447 Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges in 2006 include boosting flagging carbonated soft drink (CSD) sales and finding new revenue streams....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
tight security worldwide. There could be no soft targets anywhere. That was the wake-up call.” Bonnie Rubenstein Cohen (MBA ’67) grew up in the blue-collar “Shoe City” of Brockton, Massachusetts. Her father, Harold Rubenstein (MBA ’40),...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
reenter the workforce in the case of career break people or overcome other issues, everything from neurodiversity to creating pathways for veterans whose skills are usually overweighted on the soft skills, underweighted on the hard side....
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
have been engaging in research examining the linkage between meaning and economic life. Through informal discussions, we came to understand that while our methods were different, we were each absorbed in trying to answer similar...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-outs, overstock, and discounting....
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54078 Stock Market Returns and Consumption By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi Abstract—This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
there’s just less appetite and acceptance for failure. Lazarow: In many emerging ecosystems, failure is real. Failure is a black mark on your career. It isn't something that you can get a soft landing and sell your company for an...
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- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
certain. What worried the company's leadership was the prospect of Reb A taking off—that is, being widely accepted by consumers and used by food and beverage (F&B) companies in mainstream mass-market products such as carbonated soft...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
to handle changing workforce needs that make sparing use of staff reductions and ensure that if they do happen, the process feels fair and the affected parties have a soft landing. Most successful approaches begin with a philosophy that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between...
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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
our partners, The Burning Glass Institute and the Schultz Family Foundation, rates corporate employers on how they promote upward mobility for workers without college degrees. Amy’s focus on education and training is informed by her own...
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