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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks Dean Srikant Datar addresses the MBA and Doctoral Classes of 2023 during the School ’ s 113th Commencement. Published May 25, 2023 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email Let me say what a View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

Alive customers, who tend to have special dietary needs, to access the food they wanted. To address that, we created three- and five-day plans with ready-to-eat, portioned meals that you could just pull out of the refrigerator. That... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

said in an interview with the Boston Globe about the creation of the #BlackintheIvory hashtag. “I think this is a special moment in history. People are more willing to listen. I’m more hopeful this time and especially encouraged by how... View Details

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Joint Special Operations, developed practical lessons for transitioning from a traditional command-and-control structure to a "team of teams" approach more suitable for the battlefield. McChrystal realized a lengthy analysis... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

function and authority to CEOs. Because coaching records, player statistics and team performance are readily accessible, measurement and comparison of organizational performance in the NFL is reliable and consistent. Football coaches use players in View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial activity itself. What was... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

years. One final note: I think that American wineries have begun to recognize that the way that they have marketed wine has limited their ability to make wine appealing to a wider audience. As Michael Mondavi has said, "For decades, our industry sent the wrong... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

really rewarding to be able to welcome the 2027 MS/MBA class that has ~30% women, and hopefully we can keep building on that momentum. I’ve also loved being part of the Women’s Health Special Interest Group within the Healthcare Club. I... View Details

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

present to their boards of directors, which were made up of two-to-four alumni. The team in Spangler 205 included Pieterjan Goedertier, Ben Samuels, Rachel Blank, Ambuj Kashyap, Jenn Volk, and Amy Shah as the student management team and Brit Dewey (MBA 1996), managing... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other sorts of workers. These people help build communities and keep them stable and functioning; they deserve to be able to live where they serve." Build It and They Will Come With the federal government's involvement diminishing,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

Enterprise Initiative at HBS and oversees the Leadership Fellows Program. “I’m thrilled to help the next generation of leaders across the public, private, and non-profit sectors think deeply about how they can make a difference in the world,” says Segneri. “And I find... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

established players in the advertising industry. Next, the case examines the firm's internal dynamics. Here, in addition to describing the culture of Big Spaceship, the case puts special emphasis on the firm's recent shift from a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children. Special problems of trust have arisen, because the domain of scientific practice termed 'DNA typing' emerged in a commercial context, and its results serve as the basis for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

born, I read up on child development and learned the special importance of the first several years. From that point on, I gave extra priority to spending quality time with our children whenever I was home and worked to minimize business... View Details

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

challenge of productively synchronizing "internal" with "external" negotiations, with a special focus on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at the table." Implicit in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

engineering team, which she has grown to more than 150 engineers in Seattle and San Francisco. She started coding when she was five on an Apple IIe, and has built software and led teams at high-growth tech companies for almost twenty years. Bridget View Details

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

calls and pounding the pavement with a pen, a legal pad, 3” x 5” cards, and what he describes as an “unlimited listening capacity” when questioning anyone—in this case, execs at the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Slate, Wired, and others—with View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

This paper examines accountability processes in a nonprofit organization serving immigrants and refugees, with special attention to their impacts on mission-based activities. The research finds that upward accountability requirements of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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