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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues, with detrimental implications for service capacity. The research suggests that last place aversion can lead to maladaptive customer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. Great People Abandon Promising Projects The projects are less important than the people, particularly people who... View Details
- Web
Transportation - Business & Environment
Optimus Ride Ryan Popple HBS MBA 2006 President and CEO, Proterra “Everyone deserves access to clean, quiet transportation. At Proterra, we are designing and manufacturing zero emission buses that abandon fossil fuels, improve... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ruby Tamberino
When I was nine, my father abandoned our family, leaving my mother to reenter the workforce and support two children on her own. In the years that followed, my brother and I would overhear adults in hushed voices lament our “growing up... View Details
- Profile
Brandon Gayle
I've become more comfortable with ambiguity. I'm also able to come in with a position I might later abandon in light of what others say. Being comfortable changing my mind — I didn't really know what that meant until I got to HBS."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
As an MBA student, Leng Lim (MBA 2001) found his motives and goals were questioned more than most. “People say, ‘You’re a priest? You’ve abandoned God for money?’ My response is, ‘Why is it OK for you to make money, but not OK for me to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
to the ideal of entrepreneurship itself rather than to a single business model or product. That flexibility helps them react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and business models that aren’t working. 2. Look for problems to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Frank Wei
the first transcontinental crossing of Antarctica. Despite meticulous planning and heroic efforts, Shackleton and his men never made it. Instead, they were stuck in ice for a year and had to abandon ship. Through his leadership and will,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zubby Achara
a high, while the family is still proud of you?” Hours pass and the tools before me remain untouched. I can’t bring myself to lift a finger. I quiver in shame at my apparent weakness. I reluctantly abandon the idea of suicide as I realize... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
former product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love,” she says, “but I wanted the big-picture... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cameron Johnson
when I fail, you won't catch me hanging my head in disappointment. I will recklessly abandon the inhibitions born of catastrophe and take another improbable leap toward victory. View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was particularly keen on using it.... View Details
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Rob Casper
“I stopped the patrol after an hour and huddled with my squad leader. How can we add value here? What can we help them with?” We abandoned the patrol plan, broke out the heavy machine guns, and called in some helicopters – things our... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ann Chao
orphan who had almost become my little sister. Her name was Chun Yu. I met Chun Yu at a foster home for blind children in China. She had been abandoned as an infant and neglected for years at a state institution before moving to the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
VC investing and innovation? A: Buyout groups in fact exacerbated much of the volatility in the venture capital cycle. During the late 1990s, many buyout groups began abandoning the basic industries in which they had traditionally... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
volunteered in high school, painting abandoned houses as part of Operation Brush Up, in Flint, Michigan. At the University of Michigan, she launched several service organizations, including the university’s first web-based program that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Web
Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
extinct over a century ago due to deforestation and Portuguese trade. Little remains of the great trees today but their discarded roots, some of which are over a thousand years old. Ai worked with local artisans and communities across Brazil to locate View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details
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Bruce Gago
plan to execute, the bigger risk would in fact be to abandon that to pursue a "safe" career path. HBS is not insurance against entrepreneurial failure but it certainly increases the probability of entrepreneurial success. What... View Details