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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
kids for a few hours so one of them could work. "I kept thinking, I'm one of the lucky ones; I'm smart, I'm well-educated. Why is my life so hard?'" Sandford left Random House last summer and is now writing a monthly column for Management... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
million members, and generating revenues of over $1.9 billion. Founded by Chinyol Yi, Louis Welch, and Paul Norris in 1984, the privately held company revealed little about its future plans or its operations, leading one journalist to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put option View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
of the Class of 1997 (Jennifer Scott Fonstad, David Rosenblatt, and John Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. "We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
terms of drugs, technology, devices, information technology, and personnel; then secondarily, the current regulations in place and the payment models. Part of the purpose of writing Designing Care has been to emphasize the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
children were off from school. He told us that managers took note of this and realized that it was now okay from them to manage their work-life balance. Q: What are you working on next? A: I am now working with my colleagues to write a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. “We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the best plan and making the best presentation —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
“But it was the right approach for the time,” says Nohria, who joined the faculty in 1988 and, like Palepu, is a native of India. Writing in the Sept./Oct. 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine, he noted, “In the 1980s, the best companies, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
It’s LEAD and TOM, in the sense that my cofounder and I are writing a lot of our content. So how do we scale ourselves? How do we instill processes that would allow us to drop any strong writer into the New Paper so they can produce... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
this much talked-about MBA event, because it views the contest as an in-depth learning experience. "We designed the contest to integrate many aspects of what we've learned in business school - writing a business plan makes all the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of participants. Alongside foreign merchants and migrant planters, local... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
firms do to upgrade their IT-based business processes? Unfortunately, there is no easy answer. "It's not just about writing a check to an IT vendor," McElheran explains. "There's a complicated assembly of processes and people and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
guess one could have accused me of being opportunistic in writing this book, but the fact is the book was finished last year and is only now getting published. I actually wrote my dissertation in 1998 on this topic. The common thread that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
required his students to do extensive field work visiting companies in the Boston area in order to not just observe the process but meet the people making the decisions. Among his assignments was a group project to research and write... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
professor for the Capitalism and the State elective he took last year, gave him a copy of the posting for the newly created position. “I planned to share it with people in my network,” says Keller. “Once I read it, I thought, if I could View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
only on the unmet user needs of moms, millennials, and dogs, but really none on the soon-to-be 25 percent of our population that’s age 60-plus,” she says. Levy started writing business plans for companies she thought should exist but, she... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
among Jones’ friends, her husband encouraged her to write a book, and The Case Method Miracle was released last fall. Jones says the book is designed to help parents teach their children “independent thinking, wise judgement and grit.” “I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
on sea duty aboard destroyers. The son and nephew of lawyers, Kiechel nevertheless discovered a more natural affinity for business, which led to his enrollment in the joint program. A summer job case writing for Louis Banks, a former... View Details