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Commencement 2017 Address | About
discount, or to fight back. In our classrooms, though, we teach that learning from feedback—including negative feedback—is an essential act of effective leadership. All of you experienced moments when classmates disagreed with your views; indeed, one of the many... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
between science and business inherent in a science-based business. In general, what are these tensions, and how have they hindered the evolution of the biotech industry? A: Science and business work differently. They have different cultures, values, and norms. For... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study method... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA
Do I have to write the whole 300 words, or can I write less? Financing your MBA What is the estimated cost for one year at HBS? What are some options for financing my HBS education? Learning Model Case Method: What makes the HBS case View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
method at HBS illustrated that your situations really aren’t hopeless,” he says. “It was that attitude of ‘If this doesn’t work, let’s try something else, because there’s more than one way to get from here to there.’ That was a new way of... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through war stories. So when I heard about the case View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
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through which leaders of any era emerge. In Value Sweep: Mapping Corporate Growth Opportunities, valuation and strategy expert Martha Amram proposes a simple and transparent valuation method that helps managers quantify the value of their... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court" View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
identifying possible forms of bias, and evaluating methods of verifying whether bias in fact occurs. I then consider possible legal and policy responses, and I assess search engines' likely defenses. I conclude that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
alleging that the company had misstatements in its financial reports. Mayhem’s report involved IGT’s practice of refurbishing used parts in one of its reporting segments and then transferring those parts to another reporting segment. Mayhem indicated that IGT’s View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
ownership stake but with control of the political environment. The legal documents surrounding the case provide a unique perspective on the methods of tunneling and provide lessons on how to prevent, or at least mitigate, the risks of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
investments directly accountable. You tell whether they're working or not. You can shift expenditures from unresponsive marketing methods to more responsive ones. And you improve efficiency, obviously. Most packaged goods manufacturers... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
and applied levels. First, the field will broaden its boundaries to include genetics and molecular neuroscience, each of which will provide important new insights into individual differences in decision making. Second, recent advances in computational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
proven method for allocating an organization’s energy, time, and resources across “the three boxes”: the present (keep the current business going), the past (forget what made the business successful), and the future (create the new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Be Fun. The book was right. I came to HBS on a one-year fellowship in 1978 and was asked to stay to teach marketing. Over time, I realized that if we could take our teaching methods from marketing and move them to the realm of history, we... View Details