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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
Corporation, a subsidiary of Citibank, that allows MBA students to borrow funds through a customized version of Citibank's private CitiAssist program. Citibank will be granted preferred lender status with MBA students at HBS, although... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
investors, Buffett observed, is to find companies, preferably undervalued, that will maintain that edge over the long term. Successful investing, he concluded, is not "a game of IQ, it's a game of discipline." View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors discuss four types of highly successful “business builder” personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
essential relationship, including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. The Adventures of an IT... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
income to achieve desired levels of redistribution without harming saving; and a carbon tax to correct for externalities associated with energy consumption. In short, no tax expenditures that litter the code with preferences and that... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
policy, officials asked Ashraf to conduct research on how to change men’s preferences for having more children. “So I’m piloting projects on that right now,” she said. Ashraf is one of a small number of HBS faculty who pursue experimental... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans indicating a preference for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
very long trips, he preferred to go by rail. He did not board his first airplane until 1937, flying from an academic meeting in Chicago to Miami for a midwinter vacation. He wrote from Miami that he half-expected the plane to crash during... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
a scholar who prefers to work alongside colleagues who complement his skills, often citing their contributions above his own. JH: Can you talk a little bit about what collaboration looks like for you just on a sort of day-to-day,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
story about a woman who told me how miserable she was in her life. I said, “Why don’t you change?” And she said, “Because I would rather be successful than happy.” I know people suffering from alcohol-use disorder who would say, “I would View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
day game guy, all the way.” Instant replay in baseball? “Very limited use is probably OK, but I prefer human judgment.” Favorite player? “Mays, the greatest ballplayer ever.” The group Baer helped assemble paid $100 million for a storied... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
had done. Instead, what Gluck did was take the world’s most prestigious and self-confident consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, and revolutionize it. Gluck joined The Firm (McKinsey preferred upper-case designation for itself) in 1967... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
convertible preferred stock? Why do they stage the commitment of capital? Why do they intervene and try to be helpful—or in some cases, screw things up? “So our thinking got sharper. Yes, from whom you raise money can be as important as... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our credit card or for users who choose not to connect a card and would prefer to answer questions instead. How do we make those estimates more accurate or how do we account for things like the fact that a grocery bill should be... View Details