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- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
several times since then, including at CMS: which processes in health care should we try to standardize, versus which ones should be allowed to vary?” Who was your favorite HBS professor? Dhar:“Shikhar Ghosh. Professor Ghosh had an incredible way of building life View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
I also have a very financial, economic kind of mind—a business mind. And it’s business skills and aptitude that this region needs.” Marietta’s work at Pine Mountain holds broader lessons for economic redevelopment in other parts of the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
for Bankruptcy. Now What? Taking the Long View By: Werker, Eric D., and Benjamin Kennedy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45603 Working Papers Creating a Design Commons: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
principles within each course module, and a synopsis of each case, along with the lessons the case is meant to convey. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911069-PDF-ENG Predictive Biosciences Thomas Eisenmann,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
ability to react to the market will be critical; she knows that. There's no overestimating the event's potential effect on TAM—especially in a country where soccer is religion. But however TAM handles the Cup, it will be a valuable lesson... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
1999 and 2000 when Pets.com came along; they dreamed up this strategy very early on. To me, it's a lesson on just smart strategic leadership. They saw the threat and came up with a smart strategy that placed them where the puck was going.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
approach risk management, issues of greatest concern, tools and processes used in practice, the benefits and limitations of quantitative models and balance between the use of models and exercising judgment, and lessons learned from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Arkansas. As I worked on Giants of Enterprise, I found to my surprise that my subjects all shared a number of traits, and these became the key lessons of the book. For instance, someone once said, "If you don't stand for something,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
One of the most important career lessons I’ve learned is to not tell yourself no. Everyone told me I’d never get picked to be an astronaut, that I was too young. I was very lucky. But if you don’t put your name in the hat, you’re not... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
dialogue. Those same lessons apply to the rise of online lending. Focused regulation is needed both to better protect small business borrowers from predation, and to make it easier for emerging fintech players to grow responsibly. Our... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
Science and Innovation Task Shifting in Surgery: Lessons from an Indian Heart Hospital By: Gupta, Budhaditya, Robert S. Huckman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—We present a case study that illustrates task shifting, the transfer of activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
business issues. This case focuses on the outcome of InnoCentive's decision to post challenges related to environmental issues created by the Gulf oil spill. It reviews lessons learned from this experience and asks students to consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
option values on volatility. When an investor trades an option, they are essentially trading volatility. Therefore, much of the focus in this lesson is on forecasting volatility. Students are able to use two primary methods for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
what happens in the classroom. Separately, early in the project, we examined the way strategy is developed in corporations, and the purpose it usually serves, to see if there were lessons for public school districts. Strategy is about... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
that you don’t fully understand when you’re there — that all the OB and leadership classes and the ‘softer’ side of HBS are among the most important lessons to remember.” Part of that “softer” side is the ability to make contacts, and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
one-year coaching engagement and the outputs from it, including her pre-coaching self-reflection, agreed-upon purpose and outcomes, 360 feedback, the coach’s advice to her, an in-depth coach’s final report, and Lane’s one-pager of lessons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him... View Details