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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be...
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
corporate finance, as many of the decisions taken by PE firms have a direct parallel to the strategic and financial decisions taken by companies more broadly View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from labor markets for doctors and new economists, to kidney exchange,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Rebecca Greenbaum
Duxbury, Massachusetts, gave her a lifelong love of the sea. The Naval Academy became the choice that felt "closest to home." Rebecca's service record became a series of escalating responsibilities. On the USS Decatur, a guided...
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Financial Services
- 13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream
help with decision making, and an appreciation of the fact that in addition to succeeding in business, I could help my community,” he says. Today Ferrara serves as advisor to Standard Heating & Air...
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- June 2000 (Revised March 2002)
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in...
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- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
retain more control, says MacKay. “It might take an expert a week to redo their analysis and update prices as conditions change, but if you have the factors that go into that analysis codified as part of a...
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
best decisions and undermine our service experiences in the process. Behavioral science and economics has identified choice architecture as one...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
when an impulsive decision could have led to an explosion, or failure to tie in to a scaffolding could have resulted in a deadly fall, many reported that disregard for safety, fierce independence, and...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
“Mutiny is a rare and extreme example, but my findings also apply to situations where it becomes necessary to manage conflict or create buy-in for organizational change,” she adds. Merryman cites HBS professor Joshua Margolis as just one...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the lessons that you gleaned from those choices? Brady: So I bucket those two choices that both he and I had to make in a couple different ways. One is Stephen Reich taught me many, many different things....
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- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
these – decisions that had them poised over an abyss of uncertainty. Without exception, they all had to confront their fears and use courage to take a leap of faith toward what they believed was the right...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen...
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Patrick Akl
leaders bring together all the pieces to make strategic decisions that impact the business, its industry, and consumers,” says Patrick about his decision to pursue an MBA. HBS...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
Utah, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study molecular biology and dance. Suddenly, a pre-planned life became uncharted territory. From that one big decision to pursue an education in the United...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
sink or swim,” Hamermesh says. “If they’re good at what they do, they’re given even more administrative tasks. In the meantime, they continue to see patients. “The good news is that doctors today can reliably diagnose and treat View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
"consumer choice and honest competition are usually achieved without a public provider. We don't need government-run grocery stores or government-run gas stations to ensure that Americans can buy food...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in...
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Elizabeth McNair