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- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital
from home, first to Italy and then to Michigan for five years with another 1.5-year detour back to Italy along the way. After seven years living outside of Canada, Memme knew it was time to come home to be near his family, which would...
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Venture Capital
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”...
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April White
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
for a company for a couple of years. It’s then that many of them decide to go on to graduate school,” Shibayama says. “In Japan, many of the students decide their position for life as an undergraduate.” He prefers the American path, he...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
learning experience with a senior manager who can serve as a mentor,” he says. The ideal mentor should be prepared to meet with the intern regularly, preferably at least once a week. 2. A defined deliverable: “Students want to own their...
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Entrepreneurship
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
than any statistic, chart, or slide deck. However, this is not necessarily because stories are more inspirational or persuasive. Rather, it is because of how our memory works: People are more likely to remember the story as time passes....
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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Cassie, A.V. Whillans, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Ford has finally woken up to what Toyota knew a long time...
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- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
completely different operating system thrust upon them from on high. "People don't like it when they're forced to change their plans, rather than determine the changes they want to make," Kanter says. 2. Excess Uncertainty—"People will often View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
documents/opim/seminars/Steffenson_McElheran_JMP_011408.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Management Science (in...
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Martha Lagace
- Profile
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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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
bureau whose members would include alumni qualified to speak on timely topics. It was also recommended that clubs identify information technology officers, who would tackle both internal and external technical functions for their club....
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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
distance (how social hierarchies affect negotiation), context of communication (the degree to which messages inherit meaning from the setting in which they are delivered), and different conceptions of time (whether negotiators from...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
turn-around artist who had saved many companies from financial distress, Guvenal started by learning as much as he could about Turkasset’s debtors. He and his team discovered many of them were small-business owners suffering from poor credit or difficulties in managing...
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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Though the Internet has woven itself into most aspects of life, few fields have adopted it more actively, and at times controversially, than health care. What new business models in health care, based on the Internet, are rising to the...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
the planning process so that they feel engaged and buy-in. Even our 8-year-old was able to express preferences that we incorporated which gave him something to look forward to when he was fatigued from our long travels. While you don’t...
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- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
the past, few leaders in PSFs took the time to gain commitment to the direction of the firm—they only talked about vision and then executed on it. Q: You note that senior partners have often preferred to...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue that the time variation in real...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a...
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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
M. Viceira Abstract—Our new model of consumption-based habit formation preferences generates loglinear, homoscedastic macroeconomic dynamics and time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks. Consumers' first-order condition for the real...
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Dina Gerdeman