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Pato Bichara
Community Officers for the Student Association (SA). As part of the SA’s mission, we want to make sure we create the right environment, events, and culture to encourage lasting friendships. Similarly, I want to strengthen my friendships...
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Niklas James
you’re encouraged to reach for something that has a meaningful impact. You come to realize that you can do more with your life and career than you had thought possible.” “But at the same time,” says Niklas, “there’s a side that teaches...
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Maya Babu
contractors and service providers." Encouraged by her mentor at the Administration, Maya applied for the joint MD/MBA degree. Understanding both sides of the health care system To prepare for participation at HBS, Maya attended...
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Patrick Ferguson
performance metrics, but framed as accounting problems. “I’ve always been interested in approaching traditional accounting questions in non-traditional contexts,” he says. “This way of thinking fits right in at HBS.” As a doctoral candidate in Accounting and...
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- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or running small companies but...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Adventure in Reading
Abominable Snowman, which features the voices of actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. Norton believes the DVDs will actually encourage kids to read, just as children read Harry Potter books after seeing one of the movies. Even...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward
the process-bound corporate executive. Lerner’s prescription for success is to align goals, streamline approval processes, provide powerful incentives, encourage experimentation and failure, and harvest and distribute valuable information...
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Ryu Kawano
private equity in a country where it is still a relatively new industry." An unexpected shift in interest After almost three years with TPG and with the encouragement of his colleagues, Ryu decided that, "an MBA would be the...
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Larry Braithwaite
As a recipient of the oldest merit-based undergraduate scholarship in the nation – the Morehead-Cain Scholars Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Larry Braithwaite participated in a summer outdoor leadership experience that View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
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Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
encourage intimate conversations. They should be from a diverse set companies with varying personal backgrounds to allow for different perspectives and to avoid any awkward competitive conversations, although there should be an inherent...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 18 Oct 2018
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How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
authors wrote. Additionally, the researchers found that under a contingent free shipping policy, a promotional discount in a particular product category becomes more attractive to shoppers. The reason: the product discount might further View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
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Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has...
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- 27 Jul 2015
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The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
winners and losers into consideration. Both groups need to be encouraged and included in the implementation process, and reassured of their value and worth to the company, Neeley says. For the favored group specifically, Neeley suggests...
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by Roberta Holland
- 06 Jan 2011
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How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
According to the Financial Times, "Anonymous encouraged 'hactivists' to download a simple tool-known as the 'low orbit ion cannon'-that allows their computers to be used to inundate the targeted website with requests and bring it...
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by James L. Heskett
- 05 Jul 2004
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Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
initiatives address real employee needs, how much they cost, and how much quantifiable long-term benefit they create for the firm. An irony in all of this is that many organizations have made the workplace so much more attractive that they have View Details
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by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
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What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
person's commitment to service outside of their profession ... as good an indication as any of a person's commitment to more than just achieving status and making money" (Tammy Doty); 3) encouraging a school's admissions group to...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
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Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
market through a thicket of government regulations. Beyond diversity, note the authors, the group also has to be encouraged to develop several creative options to a problem that has been clearly framed by a leader who has carefully...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 02 May 2018
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Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
the current climate encouraging increased disclosure, would for-profit organizations be better off emulating their governmental organization counterparts, where compensation is public information, and there are neither secrets nor...
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- 19 Jun 2020
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Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
messaged me words of encouragement and mentioned “my strength and fortitude.” See what you define as strength, is what I define as imminent numbness. My Black experience means that at an early age, I witnessed repeatedly how this country...
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
co-create a bundled payment offering that covers a complete cycle of care for rotator cuff repairs. This innovative reimbursement approach should encourage value-based health-care delivery. An Intelligent Redesign of Health Care HARVARD...
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