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- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
simultaneously be able to see the eventual path to checkmate and the best next move to get there. Gates, Grove, and Jobs's Keys to Success Look Forward, Reason Back Make Big Bets, Without Betting the Company Build Platforms and...
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- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
upfront take-it-or-leave-it demands run higher rejection risks than more back and forth negotiations.] The frequent failures of DAD-style negotiation have led some project advocates to seek consensus among...
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- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
late August teamed up with engineers in the Chilean navy to design the rescue capsule, after rst going back to the United States to pull together a group of 20 NASA engineers. The engineers developed a twelve-page list of requirements,...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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Maha Malik
Maha plans on returning to Bain in Boston, and expects that her subsequent career will pivot back and forth between the private and public sectors. "One of my ambitions is to run for office," she...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
1980. At BCG he focused on organization and innovation in large organizations. He was elected a worldwide partner of the firm in 1987. Shikhar left BCG in 1988 to become CEO of Appex, an early-stage venture backed company that built the...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
best aligns with where they live, a move that has increased enrollment in GMP because of the improved work, life, and learning balance. “GMP helped me immensely. Because of the global diversity of the executives attending the program, I was able to come View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
early on—rookie mistakes can set back (or kill) a business before it’s barely out of the gate. Read Khalid Halim’s thoughts on Hypergrowth and the Law of Startup Physics for more on this point. “Unless you are doing hard science that is...
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by Julia Austin
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
chairperson of Narayana Health; and Rahul Bajaj, the late chairperson of the Bajaj Group. Leadership to Last finds five common characteristics among Indian and other South Asian companies that built lasting enterprises and a legacy of leadership. 1. The businesses are...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to...
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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
the tiniest pieces possible.” “Garbage is messy,” Williams told the Times. “But Jessie is someone who doesn’t run away from that type of challenge. She embraces it.” That jibes with Tisch’s own feelings about leading DSNY out of a period...
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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
transition. When journaling the above, I encourage writing full sentences and fully expressing your thoughts around each. Don’t worry about being legible—you may never go back to read them—it is the act of writing that is key here. As you...
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by Julia Austin
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
balls out [of the gym] and lock the doors. He'd only do defensive positioning drills. As a young kid all you want to do is shoot the ball and play games. But for a half day, he would just have us doing defensive positioning drills, never touching a basketball, and he'd...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA
preserves, freeze fresh-caught fish, and boil down rhubarb. I’ll be spending the last week before my Elective Curriculum (EC) year at HBS visiting my parents and getting back to that lifestyle. We’re planning to visit the family cabin...
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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
The anesthesiologist and perfusionist [the technician who runs the heart-lung bypass machine] now must work closely together to regulate blood pressure, the surgeon and the anesthesiologist must coordinate to monitor the position of the...
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by Hilah Geer
- Web
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
relished exceptional personal challenges - running in big-city marathons, amateur race car driving, and, as befits a graduate of the Naval Academy, skippering his 58-foot sloop Integrity to victory in the 1991 Bermuda Race. "I lead a full...
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- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
me was that prior to that moment, when a problem would arise, if I put my full intensity behind it, and that might include some anger, and really started to drive the process, that I could make things right, that I could get a business unit that wasn’t performing well...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
through the lens of their mistaken theory, meaning a person may ignore or discard information her mistaken theory leads her to consider unimportant. We propose solution concepts embedding such channeled attention that predict when a mistaken theory will persist in the...
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Dina Gerdeman