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- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
grade locker room" and "summer bike ride bug inside mouth." Images were displayed all over social media, leading to hundreds of thousands of incremental impressions for Lay's. Other forms include "playing with play," such as skateboarder...
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- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
understand the competitive dynamics and decide on the right bid. "Bankers are famous for saying, 'We have a number of offers in order to get a bidder to pay more.' But in second grade you learn that 'one' is also a number,"...
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- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Rupees. “She gives motivational talks and inspires women,” says Bhargava. “Her goal to create 30 more entrepreneurs like herself is on its way.” Another alumnus, Abdus Samad, grew up in Rasulpur, a poor village in West Bengal. He quit school after eighth View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
nomads, the students had assembled to perform a welcoming ceremony for Van Gerpen and other guests. Among the school’s four grades and seventy children were only a handful of girls, most of them very young. “For Class 3, behind a line of...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
was the fastest coach to 50 losses in league history. Some observers, such as Bill Williamson of Forbes, believe that the 2019 coaching cycle dredged up relatively weak talent, especially among the younger, riskier hires. Of the eight hires in this cycle, Williamson...
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- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
good student and a reasonably good athlete, but when I went to Yonkers orphanage, I decided my ticket out of this situation was private college. How do you get to private colleges? Good grades and athletics. Those were the two things that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
better diagnostics and ways to remediate students who are behind grade levels. That’s something we can do. There’s also a possibility that we have school closures again in the fall. If that happens, we want to help districts, teachers,...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals to make systematic mistakes in their selection decisions, favoring alumni from academic institutions with high View Details
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Anna Secino
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Restaurant Hygiene Inspections and Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca Abstract—Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
foals are born each year,” he says. “Then about 3 percent of horses will win graded Stakes races with purses of $100,000 or more, so that’s a risky game, too. On the other end of the spectrum are those of us in the breeding business who...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
minutes before class that he will be asked to speak. The opening question—usually one from the assignment—typically requires taking a position or making a recommendation. Since as much as 50 percent of their grade is based on class...
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by David A. Garvin
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Overview and Syllabus Harvard Business School Course Overview 807-123 Explains the mission, philosophy, structure, and classroom and grading policies for the second-year MBA elective International Entrepreneurship. Purchase this overview:
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
What’s the story behind the Flatiron School, and how did you come up with the name? “The Flatiron School was born when I met my cofounder, Avi Flombaum, while researching innovations in higher education at Charles River Ventures. I had always been interested in...
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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
only reading at an eighth grade level. George: That’s right. He had some very famous teachers: Dr. Benjamin Mays, Dr. George Kelsey. Mays was then president of Morehouse, but they all became mentors to him, and they were ministers that...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
had developed a unique set of benefits and cultural amenities for its employees, including a beautiful residential campus, known as the Living Quarters (LQ), and an award winning international school from pre-kindergarten through twelfth View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
excess returns on high yield and investment grade bonds are low and often significantly negative. The degree of predictability is large in both economic and statistical terms, with univariate R2 statistics as high as 30% at a 3-year...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
equivalent of a "B" grade on its gas audit. "This was like a fireworks display," remembers Thompson. "It reflected on the whole operation, and we took pride in the fact that the Van field and its employees were...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and may View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Mathieu Raux were the doctors in charge of the trauma center at L’Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, where dozens of wounded and dying patients, most with severe gunshot wounds from military grade firearms, arrived in waves after a...
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Dina Gerdeman