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07 Sep 2020
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Kominers’s Conundrums: A Puzzle That Spins Until It Sparks

05 Apr 2017
Video

Boston Women’s Leadership Accelerator

25 Apr 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims

Keywords: Re: Srikant M. Datar; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

potentially serious drawback threatened to stand in the way of further progress. As HBS Dean Kim Clark, and his colleague, Professor Carliss Baldwin, write in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, Volume I (The MIT... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Mercer Management Consulting (A)

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Echenberg

Insurance giant Marsh & McLennan acquires management consulting firms Temple, Barker & Sloane (TBS) in 1987 and Strategic Planning Associates (SPA) in 1990 and sets out to merge the two. The merger proceeds slowly and painfully. Following the February 1990 merger,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Horizontal Integration; Consulting Industry

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15 Jul 2010
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Apple to discuss iPhone 4 antenna solutions on Friday

23 Sep 2021
Video

Racial Equity Discussion

02 Jul 2018
News

Too many leaders make the same mistake when scheduling their workdays

04 May 2015
Video

HBS Campaign - Europe Events

30 Jul 2010
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Q&A: Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School

15 Aug 2022
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The Role of Business in Global Society

20 Aug 2019
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Welcome Back Class of 2020

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05 Jan 2015
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India is falling behind on data infrastructure

23 May 2016
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Three MBA Students Honored for Service to School and Society

July 2023
Article

Takahashi-Alexander Revisited: Modeling Private Equity Portfolio Outcomes Using Historical Simulations

By: Dawson Beutler, Alex Billias, Sam Holt, Josh Lerner and TzuHwan Seet

In 2001, Dean Takahashi and Seth Alexander of the Yale University Investments Office developed a deterministic model for estimating future cash flows and valuations for the Yale endowment’s private equity portfolio. Their model, which is simple and intuitive, is still... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science

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