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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
so that we can help get clinical trials done and move the pace of discovery even quicker.” How do they expect to get there? Here, a look at the accelerator’s model, which comprises four work streams, each inspecting a different part of...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
Howard L. Clark
advertising campaign “Do you know me?” and later, “Don’t leave home without it.” By the time Clark retired in 1977, the company had grown to include over 650 offices in more than 100 countries, with over 8...
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Finance
- 01 Dec 2013
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Innovation as Antidote
that can't afford any lost time. You know—the perfect kind of challenge for the HBS community. Last year, HBS and Harvard Medical School's Forum on Healthcare Innovation brought together everyone from biotech execs to policymakers in an...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 04 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Motherhood and the MBA
(student club) is a great group of students and their partners. It is a wonderful resource should you choose to live on campus, particularly if you have a partner who will be at View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain circumstances, the in-store View Details
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Ashley McCray
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was obsessed with the strategic side of the business even though I was in a technical role. To quote Hamilton, “I wanted to be in the room where it happens.” Around this time, I was...
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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
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R and Python - Research Computing Services
1.1. The software module system will prevent you from doing so. Installing custom R packages No special instructions are needed for this. Using the install.packages() command from within R or RStudio will download and install the...
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Nassima Belkadi
the mountains with my friends, trying to win an endless race until one of us fell and started crying. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? A previous manager from McKinsey. I admire her leadership style and how...
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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
phone at his home in Los Angeles, Dick, one of eight writers on the show, has had about seven days to turn in a 60-page script. “My wife will tell you that I’m an insufferable ogre when I’m on deadline,” he...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing
continuing, it appears as if the situation will only worsen as former home owners now seek shelter in the rental market. In the new book Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities, editors Nicolas Retsinas and Eric...
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- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cuts back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to the trio's working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" The research strongly suggests that...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers,...
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- 21 Dec 2017
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A Decent Place to Live
Humanity International. What attracted me there was this very simple and radical notion we have that everyone deserves a decent place to live. “If you think about it, home affects where View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
Executive Vice President for Strategy, Technology, and Innovation at Major League Baseball (photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos) If you haven’t picked up a pack of baseball cards lately, you might be surprised...
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Jason Sanders
diagnosticians." Broadening perspectives through teamwork Inspired by his college experience as a hospital orderly, Jason chose a path in medicine. But during his third year in clinical rotation at Harvard Medical School, "I saw...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
to say no. I know it’s not easy in our industry and in our firm, but wherever you go it’s going to be hard.” Paulson then offered a personal note about when his children were one and three years old. “My wife made it clear to me that if I...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
it." Fred held my wallet and I walked out onto the ice which gave way immediately. I did a sort of butterfly stroke to break the ice to the dog. I don't, and did not then, speak "dog", but I can tell you that I distinctly recall the very...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
PYMNTS.com. (Readers who know of groups in need of PPE can email Miller at anne@projectn95.org.) NOVEMBER 23 Cambridge-based biotech Moderna, led by CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170), released promising results on the coronavirus vaccine it is developing....
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Chuck Isgar
about and whether it’s right for you; 3.) interview prep and making yourself stand out when trying to secure a VC role; 4.) deciding whether to found a startup or join an existing one. Chuck believes that most students spend (too) much of their time applying to...
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