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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
Brazil) added to the feeling that my Asian look was incompatible with my personality, and often made me question where I belong. While wrestling to find my “Brazilian-Japanese” sweet spot made me more flexible and more sensitive to other... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
a new product launch and the potential path dependence of the product depending on initial returns. It allows students to wrestle with the way forward given these conditions, and how (if at all) it changes their views, pitch, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in Metairie, Louisiana. Whether it was being on the math team, the school paper, or the wrestling team, the teachers in those situations... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
as returns to investors. So the question becomes, what is the board's responsibility in that context? Q: The survey that you summarize in the book's first chapter shows that directors are really wrestling with that question. A: In 2009,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
the intermediaries advising or providing capital to these firms must all increasingly wrestle with these questions. Recent waves of globalization have had several distinct effects on firms that have not been addressed by many academics.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Harvard Business School Case 409-016 An audit committee chair considers how he can help his committee become more effective given the increasing regulatory demands on audit committees. He also wrestles with the lack of specificity in... View Details
Keywords: 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
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
the shoulders of poorer communities. As the United States wrestles with the Omicron wave, my hope is that the health care system can learn from its recent ability to increase access in moments of broad crisis to develop strategies to help... View Details
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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
and which growth option will most effectively take Endeavor in that direction. The case begins with a panel of business leaders selecting a new class of Jordanian entrepreneurs to join the ranks of Endeavor's prestigious portfolio. Their decision forces them to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
understand. Johnstone: Eight or ten local Cambridge boys turned up at the door and said, "This sounds like a good do you're having in there. Can we come in?" Our man on duty said, "Well, I'm sorry, but it's a private function." Next thing, we were all View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
"A good class discussion can be developed, rather than merely left to the randomness of chance or genetics." -C. Roland Christensen "For many of us, Chris was the one who helped us understand, in a way that we could wrestle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
we could wrestle with and articulate, what this case method was all about,” observes Willis Emmons (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. “We welcomed 38 new faculty to the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
they have to do is, they need to feel confident in themselves that they can take complicated problems and solve them. And they don't know what job they're going to have yet in their lives, but they know that whatever it is, they need to be confident in their ability to... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “startup nation.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
full-time — is their own clearly articulated definition of fulfillment and success. While each emphasized that there is no single strategy for achieving balance between work, family, and spiritual/personal growth, their stories are food for thought for anyone, at any... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
experts in ethics, law, finance, accounting, and organizational behavior, aims to give students an analytical framework for thinking about tough, contemporary business issues by combining economic, legal, and ethical perspectives and requiring students to View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
memoir, Decoded. Droga5 wrestles with two disparate challenges: developing a campaign for the book's launch and finding a way to drive trial for Bing, Microsoft's new search engine. Droga5's innovative solution is to kill two birds with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne