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- 01 Sep 2018
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The True Value of a Tweet
friends, and I end up buying the same music later on, is it because you influenced me, or is it because we are friends with similar preferences? Going back to what Leslie said, we end up counting things that are easy to count, then we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
discussion, Hart presented principles of entrepreneurship, and Nancy Koehn shared insights from her research on the life of cosmetics entrepreneur Estée Lauder. Hart noted that the positive response to the seminar suggested the possibility that two or three View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
the city of Boston’s Business Development office and similar development programs in smaller cities and towns.” Octavius adds that the program has had no problem finding alumni to volunteer as coaches. “Our alumni do this because they... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Wegovy as a treatment to reduce the risk of potentially deadly cardiovascular events. A study published in May found that Ozempic could significantly lower the risk of complications from chronic kidney disease. Then in July, researchers announced that a View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
and retirees, alumnae, MBA and Executive Education alumni—and across all industries and time zones, further proving the need for lifelong-learning content, whether strictly virtual, in-person, or in some hybrid format still to come. Reunions We’ve applied a View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
order, and promised a free replacement shipment of a similar product. Gisholt and Minard stayed in Florida to enjoy the rest of their family vacation, although Gisholt admits he probably spent more time on the phone that day than he did... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- News
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM networking opportunity, similar to one established by the HBS Club of Michigan, which has sent four nonprofit leaders to SPNM every year since 2006. The Michigan club’s Not-for-Profit Leadership Collaborative meets five times a year... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Oct 2010
- News
Transitioning to the Nonprofit World
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
similar opportunity. Best to have an intense focus and evolve your software in a rapid fashion. It is very common for software companies to start with smaller customers and work their way up. While it is harder (and takes longer) to sell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a failure to question two-and-a-half decades of practice,” he notes. “Similar patterns of thinking... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
All manner of publications are on a similar trajectory. And going “all-in online” has peculiar cultural drawbacks. I’ve never worked at a magazine or newspaper where print writers gleefully did stories for their Web site. Why bust your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
emerged after the booming 1990s and the resulting public uproar that forced Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were eerily similar to the period leading up to the market crash of 1929. Coming out of that, the president of the New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
80 percent is done by the faculty?” That would leave 20 percent for skilled nonfaculty practitioners to advance certain teaching objectives, Palepu explains. Garvin cautiously suggests a similar approach, turning to Harvard Medical School... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow HBS faculty member Mike Luca had a View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In August, about one hundred students from the September cohort were able to sharpen their analytical skills, review accounting, and get ready for the rigorous program to follow. We'll have a similar program for the January cohort in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
existed had we been able to set up our own learning teams. We may have self-selected people with similar backgrounds. What aspects of the learning team experience will be useful after you leave HBS? Amyn Pesnani: At our meetings, we would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
design a similar program where its cards can be given to frequent-fliers or very high-value customers to drive retention and repurchase for the client company. —Andy Kaplan (MBA 1978) via alumni.hbs.edu View Details