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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
three “musts” for any well-managed company. In terms of reactive activities, once a disaster has occurred you need the right people to support you from the legal, communication, and process recovery perspectives, because you don’t want to go through that learning View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is...
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Katy Lankester
should look like. I have the analytical firepower and quick learning curve to make a contribution; HBS solidified that foundation and gave me a toolkit that I can use to continuously grow throughout my career as I step into roles with...
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Health Care
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
schools — were having limited success,” he explains. “My take is that with the huge bureaucracies in public education and the teachers' unions, reform needs to happen from the inside out. To make a difference, I knew I had to start my learning View Details
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John Safer Search 1983 | About
twenty-foot-high bronze is about the search for knowledge, and represents, in Safer’s words, “A question to which we have not yet found an answer.” Its curved form reaches up toward the sky, symbolizing that there is always more to...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
classroom experience has everything to do with the level of interactivity between faculty and students, and these virtual classrooms provide a better online experience.” Students log in from their respective computers all over the world and, through a custom interface,...
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Jessica Gelman
optimization and detailed "game plans" which leverage the Patriots' assets, extend the brand and reach the Patriots' loyal fans. Over the last 5 years, when I have doubts or life throws me some curve balls, I have looked back at...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
firms in front of the profit curve despite a high level of integration, Christensen, Raynor, and Verlinden assert. "To the extent a company like IBM maintains the flexibility to couple and decouple operations rather than irrevocably sell...
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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
buildings in Harvard’s Cambridge campus—fanning out from a trapezoidal court that followed the curve of the river. At the center of the court stood Baker Library flanked by two groupings of dormitories. Pedestrians and motorists on either...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Dwight Crane. "There is a learning curve in conducting business over the Internet. After people break through a few initial barriers and see the power of the medium, there is no telling what will happen." One futuristic device that...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the demand View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Journey to my Summer Internship
invigorated by the steep learning curve that it represented. My hiring manager at Danaher also shared with me the internal process for defining internships and criteria of a successful internship. I appreciated the thoughtfulness that...
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Manufacturing
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
percent of health care costs. Furthermore, when comparing health care at US hospitals, "The bell curve for quality and results does not match the bell curve for costs," he said. "There is a...
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- 09 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Learning from Classmates at HBS
I was at a point in my career where the learning curve had flattened, and I wanted to push myself to a higher level both personally and professionally. While at HBS I’ve been so amazed by the connections I’ve made and the community of...
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- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
on the rest of your life," said Klemmer. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Yet the success he had observed at the charter school convinced him that top-quality education was...
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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
became. Male doctors performance also improved when emergency rooms had more female doctors. For Huang, the price of that learning curve seems too high for women. “There's lots of these scenarios where people have to advocate, have to...
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- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
Continuous Learning is Key van Poecke had spent some time at a software business before co-founding Key ESG, but there remains a learning curve for both co-founders as they grow their business. A learning View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
our responsibility as business leaders to do our best to ensure our businesses evolve with the times or stay ahead of the curve entirely." Who was your favorite HBS professor, and how do you use what you learned from him or her today? "My...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
remarkable success punctuated by steep learning curves and grounded in solid values. Tierney arrived at HBS—his first trip to Boston—wearing work boots and a flannel shirt and feeling out of place. “Everyone seemed more educated, more...
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Susan Young