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- 01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of... View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The culmination of an immersive field course, the trip brought the students’ classroom learning to life and offered insight into one of China’s major political and economic development programs. Combining... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
to “The e-Philanthropy Revolution,” a recent working paper by HBS professor James E. Austin. His study of more than 150 WEBSEs illuminates the dynamics, challenges, and strategies of this nascent industry that links potential donors to... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis
that, field of study is the single-strongest predictor of whether someone would be in a college level job or not. The second-strongest predictor was whether or not someone completed at least one internship.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
discussed in a pub in Toronto before he came to Soldiers Field, it was fine-tuned during his second year at HBS. “The contest and our field study afforded us the opportunity to test ideas in a relatively... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
accomplishment from both sides of the Charles. "Robert Merton has been an innovative leader in the field of economic valuations and in improving the capacity to manage financial risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "This is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
tools that strengthen teaching and learning. Online courses, for example, allow students to learn at their own pace, while electronic case studies introduce rich, multidimensional material into classroom discussions. The HBS experience... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
replicate the idea in his home country of India, Ghose studied ReFood’s model, spoke to its founder, and took that knowledge home to two friends. One evening in August of 2014, the small team hit the streets of New Delhi with food for 150... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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I Gave at the Office
funds for her local animal shelter—and found it surprisingly difficult. Much later, in the second year of her PhD program, she discovered the field of behavioral economics and folded her non-academic interests into her research. For his... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
year,” he recalls. “I made a note of it, and then came back to it in my second year. I led a field study on the problem with Professor Walter Salmon.” Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
HBS. While the world of work is nothing new to either of these young alumni, they each acknowledge the significance of this initial year in their post-HBS careers. Although they came to Soldiers Field with different backgrounds, goals,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
found her work in the field to be the most important and satisfying aspect of her job. "If my interactions with clients were limited to studying their financial statements on paper, I would not have fully... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
caught the entrepreneurial bug. She realized she was passionate about solving problems with new and innovative solutions. Three years later, the newly married Skeete Tatum applied to HBS to pivot to venture capital, and convinced her husband Mark Tatum (MBA 1998) to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
(UNI). “Involvement in Model UN definitely led me to my current work,” says Van Gerpen. “I always had a strong interest in travel and other cultures, and I quickly gravitated to the international studies side of political science.”... View Details