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- 01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
systems, focuses on organizations in transition and is developing an elective called Compensation, Control, and Internal Governance. A closer look at CCMO reveals the unit's penchant for breaking new ground in research and pedagogy....
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
break down trust across teams or among bosses, colleagues, and subordinates, and Galford and Drapeau have developed useful and succinct recommendations for coping with such difficult situations. Other Alumni Books How to Become a Great...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
succeed in the nation’s capital. Donaldson, 73, recently took a break from his busy schedule to talk about why he took the job and what he has been able to accomplish. Why did you agree to take on the job as the country’s chief securities...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Stanford Lets Students Customize
introduction, students have no required courses. Rather, they pick from eleven “foundations” subject areas, including finance, human resources, marketing, microeconomics, and operations. In a major break with the one-size-fits-all...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
on his favorite music. It was just this seventies disco hit, everybody breaks out dancing. It was such a profound experience of seeing the excitement and the potential for people having a new life, and how much fun and joy they were...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
government and corruption and trying to get rules that people abide by," adds Ray Goldberg, the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, who conducts research in West Africa. "Because...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs
than 25,000 companies over a period of 40-plus years to identify the core rules for sustained superior performance. They found three: better before cheaper (companies sustaining their performance do so by non-price benefits such as a...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive competition that might make a...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal
it hard to get was one of the rationales behind the campaign. What I like about the case is that it breaks so many fundamental marketing principles. One classic rule maintains that if you want to reach a...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
industries. Return to June Bulletin THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin So let’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get started, and what were the norms that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were “The old rules don't hold” and “There...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
(MBA 1982, see sidebar), the general rule of thumb is that of ten movies, one will hit, two will break even, and seven will lose money. “When I went back to HBS for my 10th Reunion I was initially...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
the rules in this class?" So I decided just to sit there with folded arms and say nothing. "I'll show him," I told myself! Then the most amazing thing happened. I heard my voice going on about pricing cars at the Chevrolet Division of GM....
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
entrepreneurs had a difficult, if not impossible, time raising capital. Banks were ultraconservative, reluctant to lend money to unproven ventures. Sure, rich families like the Rockefellers invested in new companies, but they were few and hard to reach. ARD promised to...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
your own business but been too scared to move beyond your comfort zone? Have any of your innovative ideas been ruled out by your boss due to a lack of vision or risk-taking culture? If so, you are not alone. The Entrepreneurial Guide is...
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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
Reconstruction fails. Collapses. So Buddy Bolden's life will be one of rapidly constricting opportunity for black Americans, especially in the South, but throughout the country. When he plays his last concert, that's the year that the Supreme Court View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could lead them to ignore what seemed to be the most important View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
because corruption had destroyed her hopes for her country and her son’s future. “People in poor countries are not resigned to corruption, they actively despise it,” Baker says. “It is rooted in the weak rule of law, not poverty. Good...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago...
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