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- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Why do American CEOs make twice as much as German CEOs?
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
work well, the best way to capture it would be to observe the same person managing different teams and evaluate whether the team improves as this person arrives. It’s not science fiction; this kind of analysis can be done with the data... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
“The course is a laboratory for us to innovate,” Perlow observes. “It is constantly evolving, like life itself.” She adds that even its design was novel compared to the traditional, multistep process of developing new courses at HBS. In... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
human connection); the destructive behaviors they adopt to relieve their anxiety (busyness, comparing themselves to others, and blaming others for their frustrations); and the behaviors they must adopt to gain strength from vulnerability... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Mar 2008
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Lessons from Private Equity
down the road?” PE managers can also teach you the value of managing cash. Most PE-acquired firms are capitalized with 70 percent debt, compared with the 40 percent average of U.S. public companies. Thus PE managers know how, in the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee maker, and analysis of cost,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Research Brief: Political Capital
Chung and doctoral student Lingling Zhang compare the efficacy of the two most common forms of campaigning: flooding the airwaves with advertising and building an elaborate get-out-the-vote ground operation. Chung and Zhang looked at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
investment directors should be required to make in a company, but my analysis leads me to propose a threshold commitment of $250,000 to $500,000 for companies in the $1 billion to $3 billion revenue range, and $500,000 to $1 million in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
orderly and linear way. In his new book, Technology Integration: Making Critical Choices in a Dynamic World, HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti presents a detailed analysis of what has become a vital challenge in every cutting-edge... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their course acronyms: EA General (Elements of Administration –... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
bunch. I believe the School will stay relevant through its emphasis on interactive learning, and by maintaining its willingness to look ahead and dive into areas for which there are no agreed-upon answers. I am concerned about the tendency to overemphasize the use of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
company he started has been in business less than 25 years. That's a relative blink of an eye compared with some of the enduring Fortune 500 powerhouses that can trace their roots back to the turn of the century - firms that helped make... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
the authors have identified eight core functions of business work, such as quantitative analysis and enterprise control. A reader armed with an individual BCII profile can learn from the text how to assess work opportunities in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
that tend to feed into top MBA programs as well as in leadership positions in major organizations.” Rice found HBS to be a strange and wondrous place. Strange, he says, because, compared to most of his classmates, he had very little... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
own companies. The difference is that my mindset here is project-based rather than focused on building a start-up. As accomplishments go, how would you compare launching your first product at Google to a product launch at one of your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
of the population, 130 million people, have reached middle-class status, spawning a growing consumer-driven economy. Auto sales, for example, grew by 38 percent, to 964,700 units, during the first five months of this year compared with... View Details