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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of like knowing when and how and who to do it with and all those other things are actually quite hard, right? So I think the data and analysis is always critical, right? And doing good work is always critical. And that helps inform what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
are now beginning to treat genetic analysis as an integral element in a patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan. But it cannot stop there. Since most currently practicing physicians have not been trained in this new field, there is a need... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
about the fact that you’re at HBS. Raise your hand when you hear ‘Who’d like to start?’ and give a common-sense analysis of the case. You’ll freak everyone out.” Professor Dick Vancil published more than 20 books during his tenure at HBS... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
as Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., Deseret Pharmaceutical Co., New England Nuclear Corp., and Velcro Industries. And by the summer of 1969, it was ready to hire its first associate, Henry McCance, fresh out of three years in defense systems View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and in-depth biographical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis of the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
here. Morrell: Does your insight into how venture capitalists think help you in those discussions at all? Polli: That's a really good question. We did an analysis of venture capitalists versus entrepreneurs and the similarities and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
(HBS ’05), Captain, U.S. Army Served in Kuwait and Iraq from February to July 2003, providing intelligence and threat analysis in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Awarded Army Commendation Medal. R. Cordell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
between the academic and the practical, case and theory, a curriculum that’s both broad and narrow in its focus. There was a competitive spirit in the classroom that simulates the way business is the WAC Written Analysis of Cases was not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
1990) and Sergei Ivashenko Aetos Poland Portraits of Ukraine: A Nation at War offers readers a comprehensive analysis of the realities of the brutal 2022 Russian invasion within the context of Ukraine's people, history, arts, culture,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
grateful to Professor Nick Retsinas for supervising me in my HKS Policy Analysis Exercise; and Professor Rebecca Henderson had a great way of framing ethical challenges and decisions in LCA. “But I’d have to say that Nori Lietz left the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere. Speed & Scale intersperses... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Kim B. Clark talked about the School's efforts in areas such as entrepreneurial studies, information technology, and the recruiting of more women students to the MBA Program. Day three's sessions offered a mix of business analysis and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in addressing the challenges of client organizations. In 1987, the Academy of Management recognized Christensen’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
specific and focused version of the following question: ‘If I put a dollar into this capital project, am I going to get three dollars back out?’ Public company managers who apply the same analysis with working capital and cash... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
motivated to search for novel information and anticipate alternative perspectives, leading to better decision making, problem solving and innovation. Time and again, analysis confirms this improves the bottom line of companies. “Working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their course acronyms: EA General (Elements of Administration –... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
insistence on more data and deeper analysis than had been the McKinsey norm. In the 1970s, he began touting the importance of strategic management for every kind of firm; eventually strategy consulting would become the core of McKinsey’s... View Details