Spending Per Year Of Life Gained - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

startup to tackle product accessibility for the disability community. Many products and websites today are inaccessible to people with disabilities despite over 30 years of the Americans Disabilities Act... View Details

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Industry Location Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Abstract A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018) - 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

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

their own weaknesses. Please elaborate; you write in your book that "learning how to express your vulnerabilities on appropriate occasions is an emerging leadership skill." A: One of the great myths View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered - MBA

graduation in a cap and gown to cash a check so employees got paid. Spending nearly a year trying to convince a CTO to quit his high-paying job and join a new startup. Getting turned down in every one View Details

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

firms that had employees switch to remote work believe that it will remain more common at their company even after the COVID-19 crisis ends. “These estimates suggest that at least 16 percent of American workers will switch from... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Huang: "I would talk to them about their behaviors to find out if they are actually aware of it I would also make peer appraisal part of their year end bonus." Gerald... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

of the family business system, we need to understand what capable leaders in family business systems actually do. I've spent much of my professional life figuring this out.... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Most people at one time or another feel as if they are just spinning their wheels, unable to gain traction either in career or in life. This feeling of being stuck in one place, while troubling, is part... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Data Set in Excel Banana Exports by Country FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Yearbook of... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine.... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

steady salary, but I would be gaining the opportunity to live the life I truly wanted powered by an MBA. After visiting for Prospective Student Diversity Day and spending time... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

machine learning strategy that avoids the pitfalls while fulfilling the promise.” Eventually, Bracaglia would like to start his own business from the ground up after gaining four or five years View Details

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

Express Chairman Emeritus, The Vanguard Group It’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday and Jack Brennan is making pancakes for his grandson, Jack, taking advantage of an opportunity to spend quality time with his namesake as... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Mar 2016
Blog Post

6 Discoveries I Made About HBS

students should know about HBS. 1. First year is really hectic RC year is a lot more work than people are willing to admit! There's a ton of new material to cover and... View Details

Portrait Project

Srivatsa Krishna

"Honor and Shame From No condition rise Do well thy part Therein all the honor lies." -Alexander Pope. A life has value, only if it adds value to the life of others.... View Details

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

quickly and release new operating systems several times per year. Students are faced with the analysis of competitive interaction between the Windows and Linux business models and value loops and are asked... View Details