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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
campus and for its south-facing orientation toward Western Avenue, a feature central to the School’s openness to the surrounding Allston community and the University’s envisioned presence on the Boston side of the Charles River. Of all...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
of their talented employees by managing and developing them. It explains what it means to orient one's leadership style around a commitment to finding and cultivating high-performers. An American Journey by Mal Mixon (MBA 1968) (Smart...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards.” He defines those aspired-to benchmarks as sound corporate governance, transparency, an View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
the real world. SEPTEMBER 1967: Orientation LILLIAN LINCOLN LAMBERT grew up in Powhatan County, outside Richmond, Virginia, where she attended segregated schools. “We had great teachers who often told us that you’ve got to work hard...
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- 21 Dec 2018
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Bridging the Gap
through college one year faster than the national average, and we know we can attribute that to the fact that they know why they’re there. They know what questions they’re trying to answer. They know how they want to orient their...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, VC: An American History shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. Author Tom Nicholas tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
The big challenge is to communicate emotion-based intangibles in a market where consumers are oriented toward material things and getting value for their money. We're a big-ticket item, so we have to convey to the consumer the inherent...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
skill,” wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a business that lost its way. “They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. . . .They were product...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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New Horizons
The Harvard Center Shanghai occupies the entire fifth floor of the HSBC Tower, right of center. The building is a recent addition to the panoramic Pudong district skyline, noted for the futuristic architectural flourishes of signature structures like the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
Burden Hall during orientation for the January 2001 cohort. That’s where Agarwala and Varma first met. “We stayed in contact as friends over the next two years, but there was no talk of starting a business,” recalls Agarwala. He and Varma...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. She helps us find our “ordinary privilege,” the part of our everyday identity that we take for granted, such as race for a white person, sexual...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Kresge’s Afterlife
school was founded by a native of Uganda—and named after his current Massachusetts hometown—to educate AIDS orphans. Oriental rugs Brighton, Mass. Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center “For their clients,” says Gogan, “rolling out...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
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New Releases
orientation may allow important innovations to languish, leaving a void that more entrepreneurial companies in the same field may successfully fill. While keeping close to customers may be critical for short-term success, Christensen...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America
educational videos. The line between business- oriented entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs is blurry and easily crossed. In fact, as I have seen in my research as part of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, service is one way to...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own...
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Management
- 14 Dec 2017
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Making Movies Is a Class Act
stayed connected with the Christie family. Though Christie is enjoying a resurgence of attention of late—the film Murder on the Orient Express premiered last month and the BBC is adapting several stories for TV—when Abrams and Wood were...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the product-design company IDEO noticed that some subjects...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
This raises a number of questions about who pays a lot...and who pays a little. Can sellers take low-cost subtle actions that will get the people who pay a little to pay a little bit more? Past research on social value orientation shows...
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Julia Hanna