Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Difficult conversations — whether you’re telling a client the project is delayed or presiding over an unenthusiastic performance review — are an inevitable part of management. Case Study #1: Be clear, direct, and unemotional. ” Case Study #2: Put yourself in the right frame of mind and show empathy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Case study #1: Pausing to inquire. Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town. ” Case study #2: The power of the personal. It had to be the right partnership.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In our case study on Central Park, we elaborate on ways she built and maintained her team’s momentum, and we discuss the Park’s current forty-nine team, decentralized zone management system.) Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Case Study #1: Test the waters before speaking up.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

If not, can you make a case for future profitability based on similar business models used by others in different sectors or geographies? Root Capital , a lender to small-scale farmers in the developing world, discussed a potentially large market-rate loan from a major bank a few years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Lees suggests that you practice “asking great questions and conveying memorable energy” with “people who are easy to talk to, such as your family, your friends, and friends of friends.” Case Study #1: Prepare and be gracious. Work on your listening and conversation skills too.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He was the scientific expert on the team, having earned a PhD in biology and worked at a health care company in Israel before studying for his MBA. You’re barely 30.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy. Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. ” Case Study #2: Determine what you want out of the experience. Get discouraged.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Second, how much time and energy can you give to the project? Case study #1: Learn by trial and error. Case study #2: Experiment with different approaches. Her ideas went through numerous rounds of review and were heavily questioned. "There are certain limits to what you can learn," explains Weintraub.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Here, I’ll outline new research and case studies that help us understand digital nudging even more deeply: Case One: The Power of Framing an Email. One project I’m very excited about is being led by the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation, where I am Senior Academic Advisor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On one hand, some studies find lower stock returns for dual-class firms as compared to single-class firms, lower trading prices compared to fundamentals , and higher management entrenchment, executive compensation, and value-destroying acquisitions. Other studies, however, show that dual-class structure might be optimal in certain scenarios.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But while this notion is uncontroversial in finance, it is disruptive in health care (and education ) where we tend to exaggerate the importance of immediate costs and take a myopic view of benefits. Kidney cancer provides a useful case study. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ethics Finance' Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Now it seemed like a hornet’s nest. We’re pioneers,” Jay said.

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