Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. Business in the age of Google.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. This scene was what she'd envisioned when she quit her job as an occupational therapist five years before, to enroll in a health care management course and, later, business school.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. Other studies, however, show that dual-class structure might be optimal in certain scenarios. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. The Case of IBM. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. And it sets strategy like one, according to a Harvard Business School case study by professor Julie Wulf. But Alibaba doesn’t look much like Facebook, Google, or even Amazon. The article, by J.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

But the more you can inject an emotional appeal or human connection into your narrative, the stronger and more memorable your case will be. With a business case, odds are that you’re trying to insert change,” says Duarte. . Case study #1: Build buy-in ahead of time. Case study #2: Impress with unique visuals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts.

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