Consumption Of Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

Clubs News Clubs News Club Webinars Explore Untapped Potential of FemTech The HBS Women’s Association of Greater New York (HBSWANY), and the HBS Association of Northern... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He also leads a new merchandising and media company serving the African-American community via the Internet. Of these ever-changing challenges, he quips, "I just enjoy View Details

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

learned about the basic functions of marketing, production, accounting, and finance." Want-ing more time to sort out the tension between theory and practice, Baldwin stayed on at HBS, earning her doctorate... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation

phenomenal experience” and likened it to launching a startup: “You start off, and everybody tells you it’s impossible. Then you’ve got to put together some money and you’ve got to put together a team. Then you’ve got to learn a lot and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article,... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

denominator for many of us," he continues. "That's a concept that we really didn't learn at HBS but one that has become important over the years. I think we all started out spending the lion's share View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

if we had been more alert. Fortunately, the benefits gained from confronting the problem will outweigh the pain. What benefits do you foresee? We're learning lessons that will change future behavior. Some of... View Details

30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

statistics. Does that mean, though, as a manager that things like ethnographies would be more important? Or is it just the filter that we're using to look at some of the statistics? Christensen: Boy, that's a great question. Absolutely it... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

inhabit: The Chinese values of filial piety, family, and community I grew up with and the sense of individualism, achievement, and self-reliance that I have learned to embrace... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

pitching. It is a wonderfully evocative photograph. Thanks for running it. Gordon F. Kingsley (MBA ’59) Wellesley, MA Gambling Ways After all these HBS students learned about the probability of outcomes, and... View Details

24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson

newspaper series and also answered questions online. I’ve done five voyages but we’ve had seventy other full programs in partnership with other organizations in a variety of places on a variety of subjects.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Mukand, India’s largest producer of specialty steels. As part of the Bajaj Group, Mukand also works on infrastructure projects and manufactures machinery equipment. “The upside is that the focus shifted to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year, however, one View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

disappointments? To learn more about some of the ramifications, pitfalls, and managerial issues associated with the M&A; process, the Bulletin asked a number of HBS faculty... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

06 Dec 2018
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Cold Call Horror Stories

of alums who excitedly told us about how they managed to avoid this—some of them for their entire tenure—we’ve collected some of our favorite stories from those who actually... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted... View Details

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