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- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
between the Army crew's difficulties and the problems that business teams experience. "We pursued the idea for the case," he says, "after Scott, who is a West Point grad and former teacher...
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by Garry Emmons
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
help people achieve their own goals. It can’t be about the leader alone. And the more there are some specific demonstrations to point to, the more a leader awakens hope and ensures belief. Change requires a belief in possibility....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
founder and chairman of Apollo Hospitals, says he spent a lot of time studying specialists almost like an executive search firm would, to identify their pleasure points and pain points in terms of building a...
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- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
able to begin talking about such a difficult episode and fraught question.” Those opposed to reparations point to the fact that so much time has passed since the damage, and that neither the victims nor the perpetrators are still living....
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
instability in Third World countries, and last year's shutdown of West Coast shipping docks—have awakened managers as never before to supply chain risks, some of which had been introduced or heightened by the very actions companies had...
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by David Stauffer
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1991 to 1994, Heinz Dürr played a leading role in unifying the East and West German railroads into one national system that is scheduled to be fully privatized in...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
with a commitment to social impact through or alongside their professional careers. Shirley Spence: While our book primarily focuses on the social impact of today’s business graduates, we wanted to point out that this is not a new...
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- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
a trigger point for his classes to start broader discussions about how to grow a sustainable, profitable business. They need to weigh what Thomke calls the P’s: production, pricing, products, and productivity. It also raises the question...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down. The general View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
challenging for an individual to develop, and why? A: Upon his return from the first Gulf War, General Norman Schwarzkopf addressed the United States Military Academy at West Point and told the Corps of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
unrestricted funds. Improved visitor services. Renovation of the David Rubenstein Atrium/Visitor Services became the central launch point for all information about the center and its 10 organizations. It now houses a 42-foot-wide media...
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- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
bit more complicated than originally anticipated. A new Harvard Business School case study called "Marketing the '$100 PC'" spells out these opportunities, problems, and challenges from a marketing point of view. As the case...
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- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
investments that keep them going.” In fact, companies cut their longer-term investments by 10 to 40 percent—an average of 17 percentage points more than shorter-term investments. In financial terms, that carries the same financial impact...
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- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
nuanced cultural approaches." Whether this will produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable.—James Heskett Roy Bingham points out that "American management seems to work best when...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas...
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
business. As the Republic of Turkey sought to catch up with the advanced West in the 20th century, the pioneers of modern businesses faced the same challenges caused by weak capital, labor, and other markets as encountered in many other...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
venture and how you behaved when things didn't go well." History points to the importance of people skills in successful ventures, agreed Sahlman. But what roles do operating experience and technical knowledge play in a firm's...
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