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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
prepared to talk by speaker phone with one of the computer era's most successful "serial entrepreneurs." After the students reviewed a case that involved setting the price for Handspring Inc.'s first public stock offering,...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
Boudreau, Kevin J., Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein, and Francisco Rullani Abstract—For a wide class of crowdfunding approaches, we argue that the reward structure (for funders) is closer to that of charitable donations to public View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the other hand, were the victims of...
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- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of employer-sponsored insurance—$4,500 in 2011. Absent the requirement that healthy people buy insurance, it is likely that the individual insurance market will consist primarily of sick people. They will have $ 4,500 to buy a policy with average expenses of up to...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
Insights Group, and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of the book What Works: Gender Equality by Design, which discusses how organizations can leverage findings of behavioral...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Twenty-five years ago, our yearbook opened with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith - esteemed professor from across the river - who said patronizingly of HBS, in that wonderfully dry way of his, "It's a good school. We should be grateful...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
up to congratulatory calls and text. This was way better than my usually alarm.” Anish Pathipati, founding director, North Island: “I woke up, checked my email, and saw a message from the editor of Forbes welcoming me to the “30 Under 30.” I immediately shared the...
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Managers and Consultants in Retail and Consumer Goods Entrepreneurs Transform your brand into your company’s competitive edge and learn how to nurture and maximize its value over time. Not only was I...
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- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation By: Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Abstract—Why can some organizations innovate time...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
college, a good presence in the locker room, and the ability to compete in the classroom. But too often, Feickert says, these high-potential students lack “the recipe”—the knowledge they need to navigate the opaque college-recruitment...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
leaders who make a difference. “I don’t regard HBS as a business school,” he explains. “I regard it as a leadership training school.” In the short run, Flannery plans to ply his newly acquired skills in the world of private equity. But eventually, he confesses an...
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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
A: I think good salespeople are able to read faces and size up prospects well. They are able to empathize with their customers and to see their point of view. They also have to be able to handle rejection well. I recall that the turnover...
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- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named...
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- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
several books about race and public policy, writes that young black professionals who aspire to advance to senior leadership positions typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled...
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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
climate change. Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) READ MORE Jen Flint: I'm assuming this pandemic was not a part of your business plan, so what has it meant for you, how have you had to adapt? Sanchali Pal: Definitely not. Our initial plan was actually to do a View Details