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Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship — and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale, an unexpected opportunity...
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Kristen Jones
an example, Kristen cites a case about an entrepreneur weighing the pros and cons of accepting a venture-capital partner. “Most of the class looked at in terms of valuation, of what the deal would mean from an equity perspective. But I...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk
favorite professors that deals with current challenges facing managers and leaders. Other alumni in your area get the same email, plus an invitation to meet at a local café for a small-group case discussion. That process repeats a few...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
life. “The fellowship means that a burden has been lifted. I am free to take risks at HBS and stretch myself,” says Strobel, who hopes to pursue a career in consulting after graduation. “I want to make an impact by helping businesses deal...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
uncertainty is due to the megamergers of the past fifteen years when, Frank Biondi noted, all the major networks and film studios were sold. As Harold Vogel put it: "There are hardly any more multimillion-dollar deals to be made - the big...
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Paula Maute
- 18 Oct 2016
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China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
Cockerham agrees. "All of us have had to deal with restructuring, pay-for-performance, and personnel issues in a downsized or downsizing environment," she says. "We didn't need to have any background on these issues explained to us." With...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
online consumers about a better deal at another Web site. Originally designed to automatically complete online point-of-sale forms with a single click, the electronic wallet is paving the way for a richer, more personalized online...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
counter-productive, negative effects." Although the brain's chemistry is beyond our control, Jensen suggests that being aware of the pattern gives us an advantage in dealing with it. "Neurological 'muscles' can be strengthened just like...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2006
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Does My Résumé Work?
fail to close deals when they are clear and passionate about their objective.” I’ve exhausted my personal network, and the alumni database isn’t working for me. When using the alumni database, approach people you would describe as peers....
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
thoroughly nasty industry. The saddest thing about it is that it will not put an end to uninvited outbound telemarketing. You'll still get calls from firms you deal with, including those you have no choice but to View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
increases sharply during peaks of private equity cycles. Deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than other deals when the parent bank is part of the lending...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
we’re going to be avoiding the difficult conversations, that we’re going to be just looking at the rosy, that we’re going to be not going and dealing with the pitfalls until it’s too late, those are a lot of the things that are the...
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- 03 Jan 2019
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Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
attracting top talent,” says Cheng. “I don’t want to discount the day-to-day concerns board members deal with, but they don’t seem to match up with the critical issues we see covered in the popular press.” The researchers wrote up their...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
driven by a strategy to distinguish itself from its competitors. And the other issue, which further complicates things, is how Apple should deal with governments around the world that have different views around privacy regarding their...
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- 30 Apr 2008
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Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Personality? Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement Million-dollar endorsement deals were made and broken by how baseball players on the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies performed in the 2007 World Series. HBS professor...
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- 16 Jul 2018
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3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
approach that the taskforce took to deal with the challenge, as diversity discussions can easily become very subjective and opinion-based. 2. Customer Care (CuCa) Experience Training One of Zalando’s core values is “customer obsession”....
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LaToya Marc
number of black case protagonists and promote training to counteract unconscious bias, a mission that she says, has received a great deal of faculty support. "It hasn't always been rosy, but my perspective and background is really...
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Kimball Thomas
this is something special.” Kimball’s initial impressions have been confirmed by his experiences at the school. “HBS provides a confrontation with issues, a challenge to your way of thinking whatever your background,” he says. “In Leadership and Corporate...
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- 08 Nov 2019
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Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS
recruiting process that sealed the deal for me! Most recently, I joined the leadership team of HVAO and am currently serving as the group's Outreach Officer managing interactions with new members and leading our social media presence on...
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