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- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
Miles Davis Theorem: Radical Simplicity Allows Creative Minds to Shine How business can benefit by relying on radical simplicity to free and empower employees. When Not to Trust Your Gut Most of us trust our intuition more than we should,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Rye Barcott
says Rye, "is that it builds a growing intuition about solving business problems that we can later draw upon to make more informed decisions. Every week I get new nuggets of insight. I'm most impressed by cases that address the issue... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
investments in future payoffs. This is where the call option comes in. In the second-semester Finance course, you’re introduced to the Black-Scholes method of option pricing. I'll leave the specifics to your professor, but the intuition... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
actual human being wrote it? Do it! Want to build an intuitive web form (easy to fill out, simple to save, easy to submit) to replace a clunky paper form (hard to write, easy to lose, annoying to submit)? Do it! Want to build an app that... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- Profile
Jonathan Evans
career? HBS has prepared me for my career by cultivating a general management perspective. I have always admired leaders who appreciated the big picture and intuitively understood the interdependencies across decisions, priorities, and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
attempting to get the right people in the right positions at the right time.6 McCall asserts that the management skills and intuition that enable people to succeed in new assignments were shaped through their experiences in previous... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- Profile
Mengwen Zhao
in." Expanding beyond specific functions to general management Reflecting on the HBS curriculum, Mengwen says, "The course structure doesn't just give us technical knowledge; it gives us the intuition that informs our business... View Details
- Profile
Matt Thurmond
list. "Its vision aligns with my ideals: leaders who make a difference in the world. I don't measure my progress by compensation or titles, but by what I do to help society." In addition, "The case method was a system I View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
idea because the monopoly surplus is higher than that from a duopoly,” Luo explains. This intuition was originally developed by her colleagues Dennis Yao at Harvard Business School and Jim Anton from Duke University. “This threat is more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
see shortcomings in what I do or didn't do, and that's the thing that disappoints me the most. Proud moments Years ago my mom and dad came to one of our company meetings. I told the story of how Intuit wouldn't be here without my parents,... View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard... View Details
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
collaborations like ours so energizing is that each new collaborator brings something unique to the table. Michelle, for example, brings a wealth of knowledge and intuition from her days as a practitioner, which helps us think critically... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
financial theory explicitly into account, but rather, do their actions intuitively take it into account? What practical guidance can entrepreneurs and venture capitalists glean from this research? RN: Because of the bifurcation in fund... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments of right and wrong. While emotions inform judgment across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
While in this role, I worked with executives across several companies and ultimately accepted a job offer from one of them, also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop good business habits, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
intuition - developed through years of experience in their areas of expertise, although none of them could likely explain where their information has come from. "By its very nature, the tacit dimensions of knowledge are very difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016
keywords, the HBS network became useful as a means of identifying fellow alums who could make introductions. Not having prior sustainability experience also posed an additional challenge. To overcome this, Cauvery enrolled herself in online courses to gain the... View Details