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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
(UWC) in New Mexico, a two-year high-school program that promotes international understanding among students from over eighty countries. “I met people who were very different from me, from the Soviet Union, South Africa, and Eastern... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
system to speed delivery of targeted therapies to the marketplace. “Early on, people would ask us why the (Harvard) business school, and not the medical school, was the recipient of this gift,” says accelerator co-chair and HBS senior... View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
you planning to do after HBS? After HBS I will work as a management consultant at Bain & Company in New York. I knew I wanted to move into the private sector, and consulting is a great way to gain insight into a wide variety of industries and gain View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
DNA of innovators. What they have to say might surprise you. Can people learn to be more innovative? Clayton Christensen Christensen Photo courtesy Harvard Business School I don’t want to overstate the case. I think about 40 percent of... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
be avoided by using a more deliberative, analytical decision-making process. In this paper, we describe joint evaluation as an effective tool to help decision makers manage their emotional assessments of morality. Bounded Ethicality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
an unknowledgeable, unsophisticated person with no analytics of a certain set type that you need to make decisions provided. We had no investment committee. People just lined up in front of my desk as if I... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
people with the right attitude (one that fits with the organization's culture), and proper training and organization (often in teams). Financial targets are given no more or less emphasis than targets associated with employee and customer... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Shantanu Rege
"Investors from China, the U.S., Japan, India, and other countries are competing for the same pool of capital. I want to look at the macroeconomic trends to see how you should allocate capital in a globalized world. An HBS MBA pulls together the quantitative View Details
- Web
Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
work began with one question: How to bring more treatments to the people who need them? After Myra Kraft died in 2011 of ovarian cancer, the Kraft Family Foundation sought to find an answer to this question. They spoke with a number of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
heights? Datar: There is no question that the need for people with leadership and managerial skills is greater than ever. So on the one hand, demand is terrific. But on the other, we’re seeing all the issues that David talked about plus... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
LISH team: LISH has longstanding interest in and experience with solving problems in computer vision, image analysis, and advanced analytics through crowdsourcing. We have extended our work and research into the field of medical image... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
but I Want to Watch the Comedy Now: Intrapersonal Conflict and Myopia in Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
action." She contributed "once or twice" to the Harbus and "drove my Management Communication professor nuts - my style clashed with memo writing. When he found out that I actually wrote for a living, he cut me a little slack." Although business training and experience... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
her time working closely with the Wildlife Conservation Society. After graduating from the HBS/HKS joint degree program Paulina will be moving to Washington, DC to work for the World Wildlife Fund. Why did you decide to come to HBS? I chose to go to business school to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
marketers, who spent $1.42 billion on online video advertising last year in the United States, an investment expected to jump 52 percent to $2.16 billion in 2011, according to analytics firm eMarketer. Tracking Eyes And Faces To help... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
(2011) Abstract Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While religious involvement offers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
"During the first five years our performance was strong but somewhat volatile," says Kingdon. "We were just a tiny firm and didn't have the analytical backup and the infrastructure we have now. "By 1988, he decided to abandon the risky... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor... View Details