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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have lower levels of productivity, according to Fuller’s...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
learned about the basic functions of marketing, production, accounting, and finance." Want-ing more time to sort out the tension between theory and practice, Baldwin stayed on at HBS, earning her doctorate in 1977 and joining the faculty...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2012
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Corruption 101
knew or understood. "The goodwill earned and accrued by earlier generations of HBS graduates has paved the way for the current generation of HBS students to enjoy access to incredible opportunities, yet with these opportunities comes a great deal of power," Ramanna...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
conditions that firms face; and the increased scale of activities fostered by global participation. The text examines how these phenomena create tensions and tradeoffs for executives concerning which product...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
uncomfortable tension that we have to reconcile. Dey: If you don’t innovate, someone else will come along with a better product and win, and one business can cause harm to another that way. But those...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off
trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry....
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- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
History By Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry (MBA 1976) Waterside Productions I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in American history. This real-life story includes a multitude...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
of how it affects decision-making. At almost every stage of a start-up’s evolution, founders face a tension between attracting the resources needed to maximize the venture’s value and maintaining control of the enterprise—what I call the...
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- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Dance, dance revolution: “I studied modern dance in college; the originality of the choreography attracted me, but it...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game
Best B-Schools.” Up to that point, business schools built their reputations largely on the research productivity and scholarly reputations of their faculties. BusinessWeek’s customer-focused look at MBA programs was an instant hit; the...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.
source of water. Indeed, tensions have emerged in such situations, as is the case with the aquifers of the Middle East. But water strains can also breed cooperative efforts, such as the Nile River pact involving some ten countries. As it...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember that someone somewhere is...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
157,000 Cubans worked in the private sector; by last year, the number had jumped to more than 575,000—or about 12 percent of the workforce. The burgeoning non-state sector was put under klieg lights in March 2016, when President Obama visited Cuba as part of a thawing...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
sons. Another mother said her child had been killed for throwing mud on a poster of Saddam. I went up to one of these larger-than-life images and ripped it down. The people’s tension was palpable, but as we tore down more and more of the...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
further in the near term and/or increase domestic borrowing vastly. An expanded federal role in the economy will crowd out financing available for productive private investment and diminish growth and job creation. The future of American...
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