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Commencement 2011 Address | About
uncertainty. Maintain the willingness to revise your course of action if need be. As much as HBS has contributed to the development of the competence you will need to become a leader, I hope your time at HBS has also cultivated the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
cool head and be flexible while maintaining a real sense of urgency," Pollo Tropical's Castaldo remarks, adding, "The idea of a ‘typical day' is not typical in our business." He says he tries to limit office work and meetings to three... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
brokerages are working on repairing the tarnished image of the sell-side analyst profession while at the same time reconfiguring the economics of that function. Up until brokerage commissions were deregulated on May 1, 1975 (known in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Nohria reflected on his time leading the School and how students and faculty mobilized to respond to the pandemic. After all that the world has faced in 2020, it’s easy to forget that you assumed the deanship in the aftermath of an... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
of family members, taking care of bills, managing personal relationships, balancing work-life with family. You've got a lot of players who are married, that have children. And spend a lot of time away from their children, and oftentimes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
there is a real need for MBAs to fill key business roles, even at the smaller startups where I was focusing my search. Sometimes, the roles were already well-defined, like Business Operations or Corporate Strategy, but other times, I was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
is a real need for MBAs to fill key business roles, even at the smaller startups where I was focusing my search. Sometimes, the roles were already well-defined, like Business Operations or Corporate Strategy, but other times, I was able... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
not understood or believed. Before people saw and understood the real results of private-equity involvement, 75 percent of my time was spent establishing my credentials.” From 1988 to 2001, she notes, ICICI... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
to cheat was tempting, where monitoring seemed absent, and where there was a clear benefit from cheating,” says Gino. “That seems to approximate reality, in terms of the real perils that exist within an organization.” Unbeknownst to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
drug approval times and propelled the agency to adopt 20th century information technology. She doesn’t like the word “retired.” Instead, MJ says that she “ceased paid employment” in 2003 as a partner at Accenture. Only now, however, does... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
from auto dealers, retail stores, and real estate brokers). Finally, Congress missed the main cause of the financial crisis—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the housing agencies. Given the fragility of the U.S. housing markets, Congress was... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
EVs want to conquer the mass market, they’ll need to, well, crush it. Until recently, the EV market had a high end and a low end—but no real middle. On the one hand, there was Tesla, which entered the market from the top. On the other,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
it's purely reputational rankings to begin with. Now they have global rankings. The Shanghai Jiao Tong, the Times of London system, the QS systems, these are the three dominant global rankings that everyone takes very seriously in higher... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly detrimental for speed. Batching is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
are in a good position to sound the alert about "policies or practices that may have the unintended consequence of marginalizing international students," Walker says. One example is the common tendency of some professors to call on the first student who raises his or... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
demotions to transfer from staff jobs into operations, where they saw a better match for their skills and a greater opportunity for professional growth. Stage 1 was thus a time for minority executives to gain the three C's: confidence,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg