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Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
problem-solving challenges. “I became a professor to understand why communities, like those that create open-source software, were innovating. It did not correlate with my intuition about the best ways to incentivize innovation and...
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- 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
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
While in this role, I worked with executives across several companies and ultimately accepted a job offer from one of them, also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop good business habits, and...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
intuition - developed through years of experience in their areas of expertise, although none of them could likely explain where their information has come from. "By its very nature, the tacit dimensions of knowledge are very difficult to...
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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
keywords, the HBS network became useful as a means of identifying fellow alums who could make introductions. Not having prior sustainability experience also posed an additional challenge. To overcome this, Cauvery enrolled herself in online courses to gain the...
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- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
helping me to mature as a manager, develop good business habits, and inform my intuition for decision making. As I progressed in my career, taking on positions with more responsibility and leadership, I learned that I loved the challenge...
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- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
younger investors were lured in. If you read historical accounts of the Tulip Bubble, as well as other famous examples, it turns out that this is pervasive. Our intuition was that this might explain how these stocks became overvalued in...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
of their work each day on a numerical scale and to describe briefly one work-related event that stood out in some way. What have you discovered about the relationship between creativity and time pressure? Most managers I’ve talked with are View Details
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Jonathan Evans
career? HBS has prepared me for my career by cultivating a general management perspective. I have always admired leaders who appreciated the big picture and intuitively understood the interdependencies across decisions, priorities, and...
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- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
through case reading, case discussions, reading the textbook and having informal discussions with classmates, the more intuitive and clear the material became. At HBS, we learn finance and accounting through the case method just like...
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- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Trust Your Gut Most of us trust our intuition more than we should, especially when the pressure is on in negotiations. Professors Max Bazerman and Deepak Malhotra on negotiating more rationally. From Negotiation. On Managing with Bobby...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop good business habits, and inform my intuition for decision making. As I progressed in my career, taking on positions with...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
complex stouts, porters, and IPAs to engage potential ambassadors with more experienced palates. Have a consistent view of your consumer target. A founder’s passion and intuition need to be converted into a clear consumer insight and...
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- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived...
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by John Quelch
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
stay a leader," as Donna Dubinsky (CEO of Handspring, Inc.) says. Once a smaller or weaker firm starts to play defense, the game is usually over. So "play offense and play to win," is the advice of Intuit founder Scott...
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by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
news. It frees physicians and hospitals to focus their energies on what they do best-tackling complex medical problems and moving more and more problems along the spectrum from intuitive toward precision medicine. However, in the history...
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
solely a product problem. NB: I imagine that doing a good job of picking that mainstream market is a function of the entrepreneur's own experience in an industry and his or her intuition about the future. Lassiter: Certainly in the cases...
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