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Past Issues - Alumni
generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS Portrait Project has captured a moment in...
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- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
managers to "'personally' drive innovation and competitive advantage." Gerald Nanninga placed the blame on "infestation" (parasites that successful organizations attract) and "cannibalization" (fear of...
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by Jim Heskett
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
focuses on how management principles and best practices from other industries can be applied; how the process of innovation can be improved; how principles of strategy and consumer choice can be utilized; how information technology can...
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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
overproduced—with quantities 82 percent higher than they should be to maximize profits. In other words, Farronato says, by considering consumers’ appetite for trendy items, companies could make a lot more money by making fewer products....
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- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
you are a technologist, but lack management or operating skills (marketing, sales, etc.), you may benefit from a more seasoned business leader as cofounder who has seen the movie before. While many operating skills can be learned,...
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by Julia Austin
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
now emerge as managers in hedge funds. But investors who lost their shirts in the Internet and telecom funds managed by these people no longer give them their money. So how can the View Details
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
is whether the business can afford to spend the required resources—especially when it means siphoning time and attention away from an existing successful business. "When you open a new operation, it requires not only money but also...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. See Adi's other research...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
years." Companies are forecast to spend $98 billion on AI worldwide in 2023 compared to $38 billion in 2019. While the money may be flowing, few companies have figured out the best way to harness AI while navigating new challenges this...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA
their studies at any time before graduation may request a leave of absence. Requests for a leave of absence may be granted by the Registrar in consultation with other officers of the University, as appropriate. With respect to a voluntary leave of absence for medical...
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- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
deposits and its business of revolving credit, on which it had substantial exposure. To add to that, the SVB leadership’s unorthodox approach to management of liquidity pressures clearly backfired. The bottom line: The art is not to...
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- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
Patients and physicians increasingly turned to digital platforms, like patient portal messaging, when COVID-19 made contact risky, but a new study of how providers managed the messaging surge suggests an uncomfortable downside: What if...
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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, View Details
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Manufacturing
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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Chase Hall | About
four-story, 50,000-square-foot student residence hall. A U-shaped, Georgian Revival-style structure, Chase was built as an MBA student residence hall, but in the early 1980s was renovated to house participants in the School’s Program for View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
quantum computing. Qubit is shorthand for “quantum bit,” a bit being the basic unit of information used in digital, or classical, computing. The equipment required to manage even 100 qubits would pack the room, floor to ceiling. SEEQC,...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients....
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- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
trends present special challenges or pressing needs for greater honesty, candor, and transparency in the future? In discussing management issues, we often conclude that "it all depends." Does that kind of thinking apply here?...
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by Jim Heskett