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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred...
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Thomas Frick
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
then one day in 2008, Stata contacted Giler to encourage him to check out this wireless-electricity startup he had invested in. "It's a good case for networking," Giler says. He returned to the campus a couple of years ago to discuss a...
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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneur, and two other cofounders, Keshavjee launched Honey Care Africa (HCA)—with Jiwa as director—to encourage beekeeping as an opportunity to enhance farmers' incomes. "From its inception, HCA has had an explicit triple...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
to be in show business, so at Columbia at least I was in the right theater, if not the right row. Then came my big break: a benevolent Lampoon friend of mine who worked for David Letterman called to say that his show needed writers and View Details
- 01 May 2019
- Blog Post
Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset
Viewpoints alive? I wonder if we could start asking different kinds of questions both in and outside of the classroom and approach them with a different mindset. In class, we tend to encourage binary thinking (i.e., take a position on...
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- 25 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Almost Didn’t Apply to HBS
my favor. She wasn’t. The only thing I needed more of was confidence, but Avilia knew this the whole time. Avilia, thank you for helping me push past my self-doubt. To those thinking about applying to HBS, I encourage you to go for it....
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- 18 Dec 2023
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Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
connections and develop impactful collaborations. It's crucial that we turn our discussions into actions and we encourage attendees to use what they've learned and the connections made to make a tangible impact” concludes conference...
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
succeed. "Getting the venture capital field off the ground... was as risky as the new industries it would invest in..." author and analyst Kenneth Fisher argues. "[Doriot] staked both reputation and money in an effort to prove his idea was a viable method of View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
appeared more similar to India’s and a more logical move than expansion into so many disparate African countries. Mittal begs to differ: “Africa’s improving political climate, encouraging social and economic development indicators, and a...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
Program aimed at encouraging alumni involvement in their communities. Activities ranged from supporting local nonprofits to hosting conferences and panel discussions. To underscore the School’s commitment to the clubs’ efforts, 49 HBS...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
care by encouraging effective communication among care providers. In their working paper, "Networks and Organization Design: A Framework for Improving the Coordination of Patient Care," Gittell and Weiss argue that organization design...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
while others turned them in the direction of travel. The discovery of such unspoken preferences among consumers led the company to make important changes in the development of its navigational system. The authors conclude by urging managers to create an atmosphere that...
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Judith A. Ross
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016
offered her a job. Cauvery hopes her experience will encourage others who struggle with their jobs and searches. She says, "We set high expectations of ourselves, which make it difficult to walk away from situations that make us...
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- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
plans, we find collaborative engagement of the functions to be a consistent process feature and operational norm encouraged and maintained by integrators. In particular, the information processing nature of the sales and operations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how HP engineers...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
primitives encourages substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, in choosing contract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
of sweat equity and hard work to shape eCW as they wanted. They were also proud of their company culture, which de-emphasized traditional company hierarchies and encouraged independent thinking and cooperative working arrangements across...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death" Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 810-144 The case focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the $38 billion of stimulus funding the DOE received to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard...
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Martha Lagace