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- 10 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting
it seems that you won’t get to anything valuable But the responses appear in the end if the work has been done properly”. Before leaving Malaysia we made our final presentation to the CEO. He was satisfied with the results, View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
contrast to planning and planners, "What managers manage is largely invisible—processes and handoffs between functions...typically without data." Trevor Rose says that there is "less interest in implementing strategy. It's not the sexy View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
"If you don't have a good sense for the "zone of possible agreement," you can anchor in the wrong place and end up with a suboptimal outcome," Mohan says. Questions Unlock Information Asking a lot of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Carl Petty
appreciate how much they have in common and to respect or even celebrate that which makes them different. I would love to do this on a grand scale as a diplomat, helping to resolve conflict throughout the world. Whether this ends up as my... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
Securities. Far from retirement, Volpe spent the summer with his wife and two teenage sons at their house in Maine, cooking up plans for his next venture. "I've always believed if you can get at the front end of a big wave," says the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
catalog that professors would employ "an analogous method [to the 'case method' used at the Law School], emphasizing classroom discussion, supplemented by lectures and frequent reports, which may be called the problem method."... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
(photo by Neal Hamberg) Ask Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) about StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, and he’s more than happy to talk about his thriving software company, which deploys video and scanning technologies to stop retail theft. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
“big” research that tackled problems that, if solved, could have big benefits. Our social recycling project is a great example, a reimagining of how we think about “trash” with the potential to increase consumers’... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
" Celso Maia added: "Predictions will improve but wise application in most cases still remains under XIII century style." As Arpit Goyal put it: "The whole system is centralized on two notions, 'uncertainty' and 'people's confidence.' I think the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
and to frame the problems in the right way to come up with solutions quickly. Additionally, I was used to strict processes but at At-Bay, I had to learn how to tackle issues that no one in the company has dealt with before me, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- Portrait Project
Gavriel Goidel
three children, despite our different worldviews. At the end of the day, my pursuit for self-realization and happiness is not about money or titles, but rather about the freedom to choose without being... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
those two years getting more experience. The problem is that most people who hear that argument have only experienced a tiny fraction of the universe of career possibilities. I believe that the key to a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
weekly community-service visits to the old man for six months. "It's an arrangement neither of them is very happy with," Baron told the St. Petersburg Times (July 12, 2001), "but once they get to know each other a little better, they... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
is? Three days before, someone from the So-Cal Times-Perez, Barton now realized, or one of her flunkies-had called his East Coast office at Erlington Financial Group for a quote he'd been only too happy to provide. Anticipating a hopeful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
notions of wastefulness; it’s a meaningful end in itself that can inspire greater happiness and ultimately boost productivity. Be sure to reflect. “Make time and space to consider what quality time means to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online... View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
the tenth and last time I will have the honor of speaking to a graduating class as Dean of this School as I plan to step down at the end of this year. This is certainly not how any of us had hoped to celebrate this occasion. But let’s set... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme centers on success and View Details