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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
secret recipe that has sustained the roughly 700 Japanese companies that are still in business after more than 300 years? How do they survive and adapt? These are the questions Harvard Business School Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi and...
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by Kristen Senz
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
happens to have a secret marriage), the love we share and the genuine care we have for one another are among the greatest gifts HBS has given us. Leila Meliani, Class of 2020 & Mike Cox, Class of 2021 It’s hard to believe that we met...
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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
capabilities to your customers' needs and to match your customers to your capabilities. You must focus your capabilities where they will mean the most to the customer. The real secret to being a price maker is to walk away from business...
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by Benson P. Shapiro
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiations be secret or open, separate or collective? How can you avoid being harmed by the sequencing tactics of others? Here's some advice: Study Patterns Of Influence And Deference Would-be coalition builders learn quickly that...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
with the passage of two bills: the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, which prohibited sales below cost and secret rebates; and the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which made fair trade contracts enforceable in...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a small part of a much, much bigger problem.” He explained that the country's principal...
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- Profile
Casey Gerald
design-based approach to innovation in the public sector,” and the latter through Neiman Marcus, where he worked on the president’s five-year strategic plan. Now in his first year at HBS itself, Casey eagerly describes three key “take-aways” from his MBA experience...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
to work on, got data, used their networks, and persevered till they saw results,” she says. “What was the secret sauce that made it all happen?” The goal, Raman says, is to continue to expand the scope and scale of alumni efforts,...
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- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
effect on productivity and innovation. As I showed in my book Confidence, organizations on “winning streaks” thrive on a culture of respect, which underlies speed and innovation, while “losing streaks” are full of secret anger, shunning...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
secret that the devices Gazelle collects are important in many domains—ranging from education, to emerging markets, to women's shelters. The press around this could provide a needed boost." —Kathy Korman Frey (MBA 1999) "One, they must...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
recently cited for his influence on entrepreneurship by Fortune, and was named one of the top twelve entrepreneurship professors by Business Week in 1996. He believes the secret to goodteaching is the ability to have empathy for the...
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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
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by...
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by George Riedel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
actors. “The richest countries are the biggest promoters of lawlessness in international trade and finance,” Baker writes in his 2005 book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel. “In a process that parades as agreeable enterprise illegal money...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
everywhere. For publishing houses, content is out of control." The true secret of the Internet, said Schmidt-Holtz, is the focus on the individual. "Media companies have to react to this fact and offer the customer new packages...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
sail for Europe on June 1, S.S. Ile de France, French Line, Pier 57, New York City, at five minutes after midnight (cabin unknown, exact location to be kept secret anyway). Ladies only are invited to see him off." "[He] expects to sail...
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Deborah Blagg