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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
coauthored two books. But his longest sustained commitment has been to help public and private decision-makers more fully understand the causes of black poverty in the United States View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the birth control pill." The lesson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
government is the problem.” Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a “market knows best” mindset took hold in Washington and on Wall Street and dominated View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the decision-making process. From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy, by Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson, focuses on a new breed of global company — the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
overcome, and when a door closes another one often opens. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chairman, Walt Disney Studios Bottoming out in Brazil Five of the six businesses I’ve helped build over 32 years since HBS have been successful, with one... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
clinical health trials. Grant and others I spoke with agree that perspectives gained during the MHCD program assist them in decision-making when they return to their hospitals View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
think even the graduates who enter an industry at precisely the wrong time end up suffering too badly: resilience and decision-making on the fly are two traits we try to inculcate in students before they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
know how best to deploy their talents and motivate them in circumstances that can be discouraging.” He also cites the value of the HBS case method in preparing him for decision-making in a pressure-filled,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
parents—or "customers," as Nielsen likes to call them—a greater say in their child's schooling. It also decentralized both decision-making and budgeting to empower principals. "Before that, principals had no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Inclusiveness, often seen as a female trait, has a business benefit in complex situations: get more data, solicit more diverse opinions, draw on different types of talents, and then decide. Don't rush to View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
value, to promise so much more good than harm. Such is the sobering message about the high stakes of technology decision-making that rings in the ears of tomorrow’s managers as they leave the classroom. Rocket Science View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
experience was..." Pradhan: “All about the people I met and the time I spent with them.” Gandhi: “Challenging, energizing, empowering, and rigorous.” Tucker: “All about adding perspective. I think your View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Instead, he applied to the Ph.D. program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was accepted. Once at MIT, Nohria realized that in management education he had found his true passion. After completing the program, he turned down offers... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
alone and later with several junior colleagues—undertook to understand decision-making both on the entrepreneurship side and on the financing side. He soon started seeing... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna and April White See full profiles and more photographs here. Recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award reflect the broad influence of HBS alumni as... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of far fewer resources in terms of staff, dollars, and especially time." The changing mix of employees and the fluid and up-tempo nature of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons