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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
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business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
going on behind the scenes," notes Angela Crispi (MBA '90), assistant dean, chief planning officer. "We're choosing color palettes and making decisions about furniture, flooring, and lighting fixtures. We're also planning the landscaping... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
mother, a single parent who has made considerable sacrifices for her daughter. "Everything I've been able to accomplish thus far, I owe to her," Hubert states simply. "When it came to choosing a college, she told me to make the decision... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
a new career path that required a daunting nine years of additional schooling and training to become a board-certified surgeon. “It was difficult, as are most decisions when you make a significant course correction,” he says. “The most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Evans will have the opportunity to help make that all-important decision as Novacem works in partnership with building materials giant Lafarge over the next five years to develop an industrial pilot plant with an annual 25,000-ton... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of daunting uncertainties: Should we bet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
if they gave me $19. It was a bit of a hard sell.” A self-described shy and quiet kid, Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) went on to become the namesake of the company she cofounded, Angie’s List. (The naming decision was “made when I was 22, and we... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Cause Great Firms to Fail, addresses this phenomenon. Thus, newly entering startups, whose flexibility enables them to make decisions quickly, often have an advantage over the more established operations that tend to be less nimble.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
façade that we build around our lives," Clark observed. "I think there will be a sense of real meaning during the year." In the same Harbus issue, Rick Leimsider (HBS '03), a new arrival on campus who had "never written to a newspaper before," challenged his fellow... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an understanding of what really matters, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
recognizing that feeling as something to pay attention to. At Wellesley, I had a similar intuitive experience when I switched majors from neuropsych to economics. That change was scary because it was late in the game, but the decision led... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
leading a life sciences company when the pandemic hit. The ability to make such high-stakes decisions is necessary training for the kind of work these students will do. Chandra anticipates that graduates from the MS/MBA program will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
and care-giving decisions that, left unaddressed, lead to continual crisis management. Despite the sea change under way in health-care delivery, caregiving will remain high touch, not high tech. Let’s spare our caregiving employees the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
help with decision making, and an appreciation of the fact that in addition to succeeding in business, I could help my community,” he says. Today Ferrara serves as advisor to Standard Heating & Air Conditioning, the company his father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
image by Edmon de Haro So you have an idea for a new business, product, or service. What are you going to call it? As any cash-strapped entrepreneur, product manager, or “creative” will tell you, that decision can be critical when it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
announced his decision to step down. The professorship was created with the help of the McArthurs' many friends, principally the Dean's classmates in the MBA Class of 1959, who wanted to recognize the McArthurs' contributions to Harvard... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
role-play the Day 8 MMT meeting. Because students only receive information pertinent to their role, they have a partial picture of what has occurred. “We wanted the students to feel like part of the action, to experience the pressures and difficulties of making View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling stories, how they make decisions that affect all students. Similarly, leaders have become teachers in knowledge-centric environments; they can’t just tell people what to do but must help them acquire ideas, information, and skills... View Details