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- 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
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
internship search. “The real estate professionals in this group dedicate their time to supporting current students,” he said. “They also were very helpful in introducing me to other people in the industry – talking with View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
for monetary gambles, reference points for experiences that are set at more extreme outcomes, leading to concave utility for negative experiences but convex utility for positive experiences. As a result, people are more risk-averse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
introduced himself and said, "I have some interesting news for you." Bulletin: Were you surprised? Merton: I certainly was surprised, overwhelmed, and very happy. There are many people who have done remarkable work in this field. I am... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
on how people work together productively,” Bernstein says. “But they don’t know where to start, or, if they do, all they see are roadblocks in the way.” To that end, he and several colleagues recently launched the Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
learned up to this point in his career, what things he sees that I don't, and vice versa. It's also great to be able to compare notes afterward. At night, he would always make time to play squash while we were on campus—we had a lot of fun. We met View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
operations research, helping military leaders and policymakers think about how to make government more effective and efficient. It was an advisory, analytical role, and I enjoyed it very much—but after a while it felt a little too removed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the spark plug behind the School’s recent push into entrepreneurship. And behind Stevenson was Dean John McArthur, quietly determined to steer the School into the tempting but elusive field of new ventures, and willing to back people who... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
that people make in their everyday lives—from choosing yogurts to choosing religions to choosing spouses—research in judgment and decision making has taken many forms. We suggest, however, that much of this research has been conducted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Enriquez (MBA 1986) The MIT Press Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and many of us are not reluctant to argue with someone who disagrees. But when we take an unyielding stand on something we regard as an eternal truth,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building collaborative capabilities, assuming that their existing people and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
paths. He met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss professionalization and how business schools shape—and have been shaped by—societal forces and values. Martha Lagace: What led you into this analysis? Rakesh Khurana: Since I was a graduate student I have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations benefit from fresh talent, View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
leaders must have are similar to those that are important for all general managers—effective communication, the analytic ability to size up a situation quickly, skills of reflection and concentration, and the ability to inspire others and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It's Important to Have a Compelling Story:" Jodi Glickman on Being Great on the Job
And thus, the idea for Great on the Job was born. We're like peanut butter and the jelly—we have perpendicular skill sets. He is creative and insightful and I’m super analytical and linear. We deconstructed and reverse engineered the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
difficult-to-quantify constructs like meaning-making seem less useful as an analytical construct. Put more crudely, return on investment makes for a more tractable dependent variable than meaning. Q: How do you think leadership matters to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
Doug McMillon, the current CEO of Walmart, Brian Moynihan, the current CEO of Bank of America, Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998), the current CEO of Landit. We've had conversations with them already about exactly what they have done, how they have done it. We have a lot to... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Whether matching analytical wits once again with professors and classmates in Aldrich, lunching under the yellow-and-white tents behind Kresge, or savoring chance meetings with long-lost friends, the graduates and guests who returned to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey