HBR CASE STUDY Good Money After Bad? Jack Brandon’s initial idea has not panned out‚ and the cash is nearly gone. But he’s got a new plan. Will you back him a second time? by John W. Mullins F Daniel Vasconcellos overlooking the sparkling lights of San Francisco‚ Christian Harbinson gazed across the bay to the hills above Sausalito. “There’s nothing like a vigorous hike‚” he thought‚“to clear the mind before a crucial meeting.” It was a mild March evening‚ and the 35-year-old venture
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Review No. 85510 This document is authorized for use only by Christopher Bourbeau (cebourbe@illinois.edu). Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Please contact customerservice@harvardbusiness.org or 800-988-0886 for additional copies. HBR SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1985 The Hidden Factory Jeffrey G. Miller and Thomas E. Vollmann While the world’s attention is focused on the fight to increase productivity and develop new technologies‚ manufacturing managers—especially those in the electronics
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REAC 714 Studying SN1 and SN2 Reactions: Nucleophilic Substitution at Saturated Carbon Date of Experiment: February 6‚ 2008 Objective: The objective of this laboratory experiment is to study both SN1 and SN2 reactions. The first part of the lab focuses on synthesizing 1-bromobutane from 1-butanol by using an SN2 mechanism. The obtained product will then be analyzed using infrared spectroscopy and refractive index. The second part of the lab concentrates on how different factors influence the rate
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MANAGEMENT-II (C-303) Session 1‚ 2&3 T- Course Overview; Introduction to Strategy Development Framework; (Finalization of C- What is our Business? (Hard Copy) groups) R- 1.Strategy as simple rules –HBR Article (Soft Copy) 2. Environmental and Internal Analysis (West et al.) Ch-3‚ pp-65-89 AR- What is Strategy? - HBR Article (Soft Copy) Session 4&5 T- Understanding Business and Marketing Objectives C- 1.Carolina Lunker Sauce (Hard Copy) 2. Glaxosmithkline: Strategic Evaluation (West et al.) pp-134-142 R-
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Keghan Chapter 8 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS Topic: Structure Elucidation 1. An alkene adds hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to give 3‚4-dimethylhexane. Ozonolysis of the alkene followed by treatment with zinc and acetic acid gives a single organic product. The structure of the alkene is: CH3 A) CH3CH=C-CHCH2CH3 (cis or trans) CH3 CH3 B) CH3CH2C=CCH3 (cis or trans) CH2CH3 C) CH3 CH2=CCH2CHCH2CH3 CH3 CH2 D) CH3CH2CCHCH2CH3 CH3 CH3 E) CH3CH2CHCHCH=CH2
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Jack Welch September–October 1989 > September–October 1989 Speed‚ Simplicity‚ Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch An Interview with Jack Welch by Noel Tichy and Ram Charan John F. Welch‚ Jr.‚ chairman and CEO of General Electric‚ leads one of the world’s largest corporations. It is a very different corporation from the one he inherited in 1981. GE is now built around 14 distinct businesses—including aircraft engines‚ medical systems‚ engineering plastics‚ major appliances
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but it won’t prompt me to purchase‚ it will just lead me to research more on the product’s user reviews which I normally get from friends or on online product review forums. This goes the same way for most of the people I know. In an article in HBR titled “Marketing is Dead”‚ the writer noted that traditional marketing is already dead and he qualified this with research data. “Buyers are no longer paying much attention. Several studies have confirmed that in the "buyer’s decision journey‚" traditional
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WS5 HBR Paper MGT 532 William (Bill) Sanders Indiana Wesleyan University NOTATION: The instructions for this week’s assignments cited this article as being written by Birkinshaw‚ J.‚ & Crainer‚ S. No such article exists in any database in the OCLS written by either of these individuals. Here is my submission based on the only article by that title I was able to locate from the Harvard Business Review. Article Summary: In the article “It’s not “unprofessional” to gossip at work”
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OLR 1 Kotter‚ J.‚ “What Leaders Really Do‚” HBR‚ 1900 Many people wonder the differences in management and leadership. Kotter (1990) clearly states the differences between management and leadership. He mentions that management is about dealing with complexity‚ while leadership is about dealing with change. Companies manage complexity in three ways. First‚ managers plan and budget to achieve their rather short-term goals. These goals are short-term because in the rapidly changing business
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lose a proton. There are very few strong acids. A strong acid is one that completely ionizes in water. In contrast a weak acid only partially dissociates. Examples of strong acids are hydrochloric acid (HCl)‚ hydroiodic acid (HI)‚ hydrobromic acid (HBr)‚ perchloric acid (HClO4)‚ nitric acid (HNO3) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4). In water each of these essentially ionizes 100%. The stronger an acid is‚ the more easily it loses a proton‚ H+. Two key factors that contribute to the ease of deprotonation
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