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Katia Walsh | About

Before that, she served as the first Head of Data Analytics at Prudential Financial where she co-founded the Chief Customer Office as part of the company’s digital transformation. Katia has also held leadership roles at Fidelity... View Details

20 May 2022
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Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

each other. More broadly from a climate perspective, I think programs like Nucleate are playing a critical role in accelerating the timeline for impact of new technologies. Though not every company built on a breakthrough technology is... View Details

August 1998 (Revised February 1999)
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Product Development at Dell Computer Corporation

By: Stefan H. Thomke, Vish V. Krishnan and Ashok Nimgade

Describes how Dell redesigned its new product development process after experiencing a major product setback and a significant decline in firm profits in 1993. Dell's new process is challenged during the development of a new line of portable computers when the incoming... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Profit; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Product Development; Business Processes; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Hardware; Computer Industry

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Ethan Li

Group where he later became chief of staff to the group president. "I had just a few years of experience at the time," Ethan says. "My boss had almost forty. How would I build trust and add value? I had to evolve into the View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

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Job Search 2.0: LinkedIn + ChatGPT Secrets Revealed

Jeremy Schifeling will dive into the most advanced LinkedIn and ChatGPT techniques to help alumni find a career path, build a fully tech-optimized profile, and ace your very next interview. View Details

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Climate Change | Institute for Business in Global Society

Climate Change Businesses today are increasingly expected to play a leading role in mitigating the worst effects of climate change and in creating a more sustainable economy. Find the latest thinking and practical examples from the HBS... View Details

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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

28 Jan 2016
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Why Get an MBA?

said, I can take a shot anyway. Upon graduating from HBS, I will join BCG in New York as a consultant. That’s technically a role that I could have secured without an MBA. Saying an MBA is unnecessary on those grounds is akin to calling... View Details

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

leaving in a few weeks and that the company was "reconsidering the entire department's role and structure." Normally decisive and confident, Michelle was caught off guard. She felt frozen, with no idea how long the organization's review... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

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Dillon House | About

investment bank. Dillon joined the Wall Street bond brokerage firm William A. Read & Company in 1912. Following William Read’s death in 1916, Dillon bought a majority interest in the firm; the company’s name was changed to Dillon, Read & Co. in 1921. A number of the... View Details

30 Oct 2019
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How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

Eisenmann says. “With some distance from the failure, a founder will typically see that those first-blush explanations may have some merit. But they’ll also recognize that their own decisions and shortcomings as a leader almost certainly played a big View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Insider Data from Thomson Reuters Ownership Data

Codes box on the main WRDS search page Enter multiple codes by leaving a single space between them Change All Records drop down box to Exclude Problematic Records Leave all other boxes in this step as is Step Three: Variables In Insider Information check... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

member of the Cherokee Nation, his father’s people, where his tribal name is Blackberry. He grew up between Omaha and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, where he was a football player and top student—not a plant whisperer. It would be decades before... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

the factory floor," she recalls, "I felt like I was back at the family dinner table." Her professional DNA includes a consulting role at McKinsey & Company, a stint at General Foods, and considerable venture capital experience. Gordon... View Details

08 Sep 2015
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Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

corporate roles is to improve upon traditional vicarious learning models. ©iStock.com/cacaroot Instead, Myers envisions a model of coactive vicarious learning. “The major shift theoretically is moving from a language of transfer, of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization

recounts. “The employees said, that’s great. We’ll check it with an experiment. The experiment determined if the logo could stay.” As that story illustrates, the role of leadership is very different in an experimentation organization,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 May 2008
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Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

in unconscious processes. Growing recognition of this is one reason for the increased interest among marketers of the role of emotions in decision-making. Deep metaphors, being a part of this unconscious language of thought, have three... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

learned at HBS: “I developed a sense of confidence in myself and in my ability to go out and compete in the business world.” Inspirations & role models: “As a woman, there were no role models!” Best business... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

still considered part of the Class of 1978. Dolan acknowledges that his circumstances are unusual, and even admits he had a few reservations about taking over the role of club president. “I was concerned,” he reflects, “that our graduates... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Roscini January 2025 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade and Investment Meg Rithmire Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Role of Government in Market Economies... View Details

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