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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
dollars in lost sales and customer goodwill. Ton is currently working with a nationwide chain to estimate the magnitude of this problem and identify its drivers. "We have found large and systematic variation in performance in 250 stores...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers...
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Garry Emmons
- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
head to this day,” he says. “As an entrepreneur, leadership is the most important quality to have—you need it to attract the right people and get the optimum performance beyond any employee numbers or resources you control. And the case...
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Julia Hanna;
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
make a difference in her own community when then governor John Baldacci of Maine asked for help in creating new jobs to soften the economic impact of a local Navy base closure. Her 2009 Presidential appointment to the SBA was both a...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
being groomed to replace Adi, 71, the eighth richest Indian with a fortune estimated at $8.3 billion, according to Forbes. In a 2012 Economic Times interview, Adi said of Nisa, "She could head the business. She has also repositioned the...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
presides over the epicenter of Athens—looking out over Hellenic Parliament on one corner and Syntagma Square on the other—has been witnessing the capital’s highs and lows since 1842. Protesters took hammers to the hotel’s white marble steps in 2015 and hurled hunks of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, paints a more optimistic picture, provided business leaders embrace our generational diversity findings. Our study confirms others that quantify the economic benefits of diverse...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
diverse product lines in health care, computers, printers, and scientific instruments, he notes, because it has established autonomous divisions around the globe with clear performance targets and incentives to grow. Other innovative...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
performances throughout the Bay Area with a range of groups, including the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. After majoring in music and physics at the University of California at Berkeley, he studied conducting at London’s Guildhall...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
experiences in more than twenty countries. (See cover story) How Countries Compete by Richard H.K. Vietor (HBS Press) Professor Vietor examines the different social, economic, cultural, and historical forces shaping governmental approaches to View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as...
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Administration of Economic Programs
- 04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work
also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500 corporations, and now HBS. Music...
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- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
$70 million to almost $700 million—to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. Then, with MCC assistance, countries take the lead in designing and implementing programs, with both the MCC and the recipient country...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that...
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