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  • Portrait Project

Christine Cuoco

brother's dream to open a thriving restaurant even if business-school training warns of slim odds of success. Take shoe-making classes and design, market, and sell a line of fun and trendy, but shockingly comfortable, footwear. Find my... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

slave to the markets, as it were,” she says. “So that is a big factor in his decision-making process.” Do a thorough assessment. Talk to people in the areas and roles that are of interest to you, to see if you’re a strong fit, and “very importantly, if the View Details
  • Portrait Project

Randolph Rodrigues

I tread along in the footsteps of those who have accomplished so much with so little... My father was a shepherd for the first decade of his life until a teacher offered to enroll him in school. My mother grew up with her grandmother who just managed to get by on View Details
  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

health care landscape through a lens of disruptive innovation. How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Instead of making health care delivery more efficient, electronic health records may be doing just the opposite. Women Heart Patients Have Better... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

study group, PhDs/postdocs and individuals previously employed at small firms). Specifically, our results indicate that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 36 percent rise in the odds that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

we’re burning down the house and we have to stop? When is it going to happen?” And he looks at me and says, “You know, change is really slow until it’s fast.” One of the things I do with businesspeople is a very simple scenario analysis: “What are the View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

What’s in a Name

injustice in the United States, the company recognized that its name—with associations with the Confederacy—was at odds with its goal of bringing people together. As Chugh explains in the edited excerpt below, the company solicited... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 11 Mar 2020
  • News

America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses

Apache helicopters in Afghanistan. “I’ve never met anyone like this before,” she recalled thinking. The odds for meeting someone while at HBS, the article says, favors women. “A campus study of its business-school alums found that a third... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

security, and access to health care. Crespin calls these concerns “problems in the commons,” that is, issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

can control." Improving The Odds What are some other ways that VC firms can influence their rate of success, asked Sahlman. In an increasingly competitive environment, how does a firm differentiate itself? "The View Details
Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Curb Your Overconfidence

bargaining weaknesses, and you’ll increase the odds of proposing an offer that is acceptable to the other side. Curb Your Overconfidence Overconfidence can make the best negotiators overestimate their chances of success — and... View Details
Keywords: HBS professor Max H. Bazerman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 29 May 2013
  • Blog Post

A self-discovery journey

is the endless list of resources that are available for everything. The career search is not an exception. A very structured process starts with the slow self-discovery of what matters most to you. A set of apparently odd exercises steers... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

got a golden goose, your negotiating partner has to offer even better terms to get you to say yes. But if all you're holding is a dead duck, you may have to take whatever your counterpart offers you. You must figure out if going after one deal helps or hurts your View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

who want to become valued and successful members of their organizations without selling out on their identities and their beliefs. These "tempered radicals" may have differences based on moral values, social perspectives, or racial, gender, or sexual identity that put... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • News

The Nature of Business

leading Goldman Sachs's new, in-house environmental efforts. Three years later, he applied for the CEO position at the Washington, D.C.-based TNC. "At first, I was viewed as an odd candidate; but to the board's credit, they thought my... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

increased the odds of a crisis to 40 percent." “Previous authors had shown that there was some ability to predict financial crises,” says Hanson, a professor of business administration in the HBS Finance Unit. “But we were surprised by... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

More Alumni Books

Odds by Gerald C. Leader (MBA ’61) with Amy F. Stern (Harvard Education Press) Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David Maister (DBA ’76) (Spangle Press) Fuel: Catholic Men Living the Faith, A Small Group... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

HBS admissions with similar insecurities. When looking at class profiles, the HBS community is so impressive that we think will never get in; we think we are not worthy; we think the odds are forever NOT in our favor. And that’s not true.... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

iStock What do these people have in common? The daughter of former slaves, pioneers in the private space race, and oddball inventors who created the green business industry. They all overcame long odds to become great American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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