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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got the entire therapeutic aspect of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Partner (SEP) on his current client. (SEPs perform an oversight role for the work being done by the GEP and his or her team and are typically very senior members of the firm.) The case also raises areas where Everson can improve. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons presents the seven key questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size, wherein it was constrained by a structure of having each of the firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
resources. We found martial arts to be the best avenue because of both the lessons learned and the fact that it is available to individuals of all shapes and sizes. There is certainly an economic barrier to participate in martial arts, so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School, HBS professor and ethicist Max... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
recruiters, found current hiring practices to be haphazard at best and inept at worst. And no wonder. Ignorant of their staffing needs, most companies treat hiring top-level executives as an emergency. That leaves them little choice. One... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the economist’s normal pastimes of rummaging through data sets, crunching numbers, and testing theories. But one day, he found himself hung up on the opening line of a teaching case: DuPont was considering entering the titanium dioxide... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
that they will share it. "People watch a lot of things online that they would never share with anyone," Teixeira notes. To figure out what prompts viewers to share ads, Teixeira's team conducted an additional experiment where participants... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
program’s 2020 annual report sums it up best: “Many nonprofits serve minorities in their communities, and the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized a fresh look at who and how they serve clients who need help. We at Community Partners examined our record. Without... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
(CRM) project would require, the bank decided to explore its benefits with a smaller pilot project. It appointed a CRM project team to design and implement a project focused on credit cards. Describes the challenges of the Spanish credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of Baghdad in April 2003 on... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
from your struggles, it can still be hard to share those publicly. Nevertheless, we set up on Spangler lawn at Spring Reunions and asked a few brave souls to recount some of their greatest challenges and tell us what they learned from those experiences. READ MORE David... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
me a ton of free chocolate. And now I am married to that man.” It sounds like the plot of a rom-com—and there are plenty of the standard detours along the way too—but that, in the words of Paige Gebhardt Cognetti (MBA 2014), is how she View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
that they found some of the morphed images creepy or unsettling," they write in "The Tipping Point of Animacy." The Eyes Have It A follow-up experiment determined what part of a face best reveals its animacy. The researchers used the same... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
weeks ago, when I visited your classrooms during Bridges, I witnessed many of you discussing leaders who were inspiring examples of the school’s mission of making a difference in the world. Across classes, the word I most commonly found... View Details
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Ferreira recalls. “And how should they think about things like the length of a sales event?” “What we found was that in product categories where the consumer is likely to purchase several products, the value of concealment tends to be... View Details