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- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres In classic engineer fashion, Ernesto Humpierres (MBA 2011) has always enjoyed building systems, whether it’s a Lego set with his twins or an e-commerce side hustle with their mother, Sarah Scott...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
have been left without one of the most powerful tools to boost trade and enhance productivity. Consider Century Wear, a knitted garment joint venture between Israel's Dov Lautman (Delta Galil) and Jordan's Omar Salah (Century Investment...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Steel Tax
unlikely to go away. Over the long run, you want firms to change their cost structures and move into different parts of the market.” That, she admitted, “is easy to say and hard to do.” Asked what the likely fallout with View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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In Brief
counter basic assumptions. Several HBS professors consider the cost to organizations when dissent does not or cannot surface, and suggest ways to make sure it does. To the Rescue. In India, there’s no such thing as calling 911 in an...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
government has run it as a for-profit corporation, increasing safety and decreasing costs along the way. Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It by Richard S. Tedlow (Portfolio) Professor...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live, work, or travel in Asia; that's...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary of Swiss commodity...
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Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Brick by Brick
first financial loss. "Their top-line growth was slowing down, but their costs were accelerating, so they were starting to lose some significant money," says Thomke. LEGO hired Danish turnaround expert Poul Plougmann to stanch the red...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
challenge consumer expectations from Godiva and to reinforce Godiva as a brand that delivers newness and discovery.” The fact that it costs around $100 a pound and is only available from November through February no doubt creates an aura...
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- 28 May 2019
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What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
cross-sell each other’s games. It’s something the industry accomplished by working together.” “Maybe 20 percent of my time is devoted to different aspects of Mega Millions. Just one example: We’re fighting these parasitic lotteries that basically View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream
Ted Ferrara (MBA 1990) “I give back to express my gratitude,” says Ted Ferrara (MBA 1990). “The School is in the business of changing lives and it certainly changed mine.” Before coming to HBS, Ferrara had never lived outside of Minneapolis. He went to View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
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Phone Fun
have included gangster elf-themed holiday wrapping paper and a Valentine’s Day condom giveaway. “I tell my team that ideas are key and if those ideas are good, I'll reallocate budgets to make them happen,” Braterman said in the June 3 edition of Campaign, a British...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
millions if not billions of miles. And those scenarios vary from city to city. Plus, autonomous cars are very expensive today. Those costs will have to come down before it can scale. How will autonomous vehicle fleet operations...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
fund sector, today is undergoing substantial transformation, thanks to the Internet's growing reach. Unlike other areas of Internet commerce, such as online bookstores, where the cost of merchandise is roughly equivalent to in-store...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised...
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- 19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch
stores, or for cash withdrawals. Others finalists included George Hessler (MBA 1985), who pitched Magma Trading, a new kind of stock market for large block trades that he’s dubbed “the Costco of trading.” Aiden Feng (MBA 2016) introduced...
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Jennifer Myers