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Daniel Sheyner
is what I want to do." PE PREP The most common question in private equity interviews? "Walk me through your past deals," says Sheyner. An ideal answer shows you know both the facts of the deal and that you have an opinion...
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- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
awareness in the HBS community about investment and other business opportunities on the continent with the aim of creating more ventures and deals in Africa. Integrate the coverage of African countries and businesses into the HBS...
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All Industries
- 01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Books
choosing group members, establishing norms, and dealing with conflicts to evaluating progress and deciding when it’s time to restructure. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
dealing with conflicts of interest, and setting an ethical tone within an organization. 2003 Alumni Achievement Awards James E. Burke (MBA ’49), chairman and CEO emeritus of Johnson & Johnson, where he spent almost forty years helping...
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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing technology by 35,000 global startups...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
F-Prime immensely – there were days I found myself knee-deep in technology diligence with scientific/medical experts in one meeting while structuring deals and meeting entrepreneurs in another. My exposure to CEOs and VC Partners showed...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni network. Your interest and support mean a great deal to us - thank you! I look forward to seeing you in Chicago in June. Charles F. Milner, Jr. January 1998
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
theme of the panel discussion, “Taking Social Innovation to Scale,” Gergen added that the anticipated infusion of federal funds puts pressure on social enterprise organizations to deliver results. “It’s going to be a huge deal for social...
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- 03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation
longer has a title is clearly a bad deal for shareholders.” Looking back to her HBS experience, Ferracone says, “I remember HBS professors as being second to none. I arrived at HBS with a marketing background and knew that I had to learn...
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Mira Mehta
conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I didn't have that experience at any other school I applied to -...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Embrace the Corona-Blur
like never before.” Here, some thoughts on how to deal with the intersectionality of the moment—because when life’s elements blend together, it becomes harder to find perspective on any of them. Find clarity. This loss of boundaries in...
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- 06 May 2015
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Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
"Here is the problem: What happens when we see a future that we cannot affect? That is when predictive analytics become extremely uncomfortable." Several responses sought to deal with the concerns. Arie Goldshlager commented...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2008
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Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
too little on the actual behavior of mere humans, which is beset by "bounded rationality" (limits on the complexity we can deal with) as well as our limited self-control (inability to resist "temptation"). They...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2008
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What is the Future of State Capitalism?
respondents. Shann Turnbull points out that "National governments can deal with globalisation as they can determine the rules of ownership and control applicable in their jurisdictions." Nevertheless, he proposes the creation of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
therefore establish a "relationship" that allows them to maintain contact with their customers over the long term. Recognizing this new reality and dealing with it proactively is the single most important dimension of enterprise...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
guided by the invisible hand of the stock market. In Germany alone, some 2,500 companies that would qualify to go public are not listed on any exchange." In rectifying that problem, Europe must deal with another one of considerable...
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by James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
organizational energy released / management time and attention invested. Q: Why do managers benefit from "calculating" the results of this device? A: Not all that long ago, life was different for most of us. We didn't have to deal with...
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Re: Robert Simons
- 05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio
says Dorsen, "including several of whom had not even been formally invited." While there was a lot of interest in the idea, the principal concern among the group was whether there were enough good companies in the pipeline to generate quality View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman