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- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
work is almost certainly going to put you out of your comfort zone, adding to the intensity of the experience. The rigor of the experience extends beyond academics – your social life will keep you plenty busy as well. With 900+ people... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie," the authors argue that barriers to effective government decision making result in poor decisions about critical issues like the environment, organ transplants, and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
software and IT services industry as players seek to develop their capabilities for their growing domestic market. We describe the implications of our findings for CIOs in developed countries. Our main prediction is that the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
California - Global
Division. She later led Process Improvement efforts in the Finance Group at Invitrogen (now Life Technologies). Most recently, Allison was a VP for Investments at Pacific Corporate Group, a La Jolla-based... View Details
- 2025
- Book
Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau
Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.
Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details
Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Economics; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Brendan Rosseau. Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier. Harvard Business Review Press, 2025.
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
presidential victory. The Innovator develops a solution to address the grievances. That means anticipating roadblocks and coming up with alternative paths, as well as justifying those alternatives in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
lose market share but improve profitability. 2. Compensate your salesforce on profit margin, not sales revenues. A volume-based salesforce will sign up any customer, regardless of profitability. That's OK early in the product View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Portrait Project
Samrath Oberoi
emotion of a composition. My life has revolved around this silence – the negative space in music that to me represents those who lack a voice in society. I am also that white... View Details
- 09 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Economics of Structured Finance
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
forward my identity, I’m still processing what it means to be a ‘gay man’ in today’s society, romantic relationships are still hard, and my family is not fully accepting of my new reality. Yet, I am proud of... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership... View Details
- Article
Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making
By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment
Haward, Marlyse F., Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz, and Baruch Fischhoff. "Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making." Pediatrics 129, no. 5 (May 2012): 891–902.
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
plaque has real meaning that ties into your company’s purpose. And carefully consider the benefits you offer. Hall offers the example of Wegmans, which began an effort in 1984 to attract hardworking... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision." Regarding communication: "Good communication does not View Details
Keywords: Management
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
capitalism there is a place for government, and economists, in the capitalistic system, but in this case less is more." Gerald Nanninga suggested that we "limit government's role to defining... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience
current students to learn about the HBS community and student experience, and hear about MBA admissions and financial aid. Recently, we had the privilege of interviewing Greg Asare, a graduate with a major in Biological Sciences from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
a potential for improvement. The statistics are disheartening no matter how an entrepreneur defines failure. If failure means liquidating all assets, with investors losing most or all the money they put into the company, then the failure... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Adriana Garcia Ceja
an experience where community means more than just taking classes and getting a diploma.” Putting her values into action, Adriana ran for and became president of Section D. “Running was in a way crazy; I had... View Details
- 29 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries