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  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The productivity... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • News

Whistle While You Work

roles with others.” Business borrows these metaphors and lingo from other group-oriented pursuits in order to better understand itself and improve its performance. The world of music provides business with a lot of the analogies and the... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug

mention his entrepreneurial spirit—can be traced back to his time at HBS. As a student, he loved former HBS lecturer Irving Grousbeck's popular course on starting new ventures and conducted a field study of Analog Devices, run by Ray... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; Telecommunications; Information; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Alumni Books

tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting, he shows how to reverse this situation, including... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • News

The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together

“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 22 Oct 2018
  • News

Capital Murder

plot are taking you in directions you wouldn’t have anticipated. And oftentimes it’s that allowance for improvisation that makes a sentence, chapter, or entire book better. The analogy to the business world is clear—you start with a plan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

He Begs to Differentiate

Worldwide, J. Walter Thompson, and Hill & Knowlton. Through his clients, Sorrell has his finger on the pulse of a wide range of industries. Speaking of the Internet, he observed that "the great analogy for the Web is the nineteenth... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate

recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard

monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter

note, but for Hubscher, the romance of an analog writing implement remains: “For me, they are tools of freedom. You don’t have anything between you, your soul, and the paper and the mark that you leave.” How to: Pick your pen-and-paper... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Apr 1998
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Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

photography is going to go away as everything in our industry becomes digitized. But I disagree," he says. "I think analog photography will endure, because it still satisfies many users, and digital imaging businesses will grow up around... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 19 Feb 2008
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The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 04 May 2018
  • News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

and a Pro Bowl player. And that's the analogy I garner with her. She broke her maiden after, I think, six or seven starts. All of a sudden everything changed. She was a different filly. She was eating better. She had a lot more... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
  • 16 Aug 2022
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HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

my dream.” Since graduating in 2020, Sasago has launched a restaurant, Bosso Ramen Tavern, in Harvard Square, Cambridge. “I am trying to build a successful business in the US so my fellow Japanese will see this and follow,” he says. “And, to use the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

School of Business, “Sealed Air is the perfect case for opening a class with the question, ‘What are you going to do?’ There’s really no wiggle room. After some analytics, you have to choose between ‘Yes, introduce uncoated’ or ‘No, don’t.’ Over the past twenty years,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

products - a construct they call "the virtual value chain" - which is analogous to the physical value chain. They discuss this concept in their forthcoming book Managing in the Marketspace. MIS professor Lynda M. Applegate is also... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
  • 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life

vindication or validation because I never really thought of it as something that I either needed approval for or that I was being judged for. It almost goes back to the analogy earlier of meditation. If you're an early meditator 15 years... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

I guess what I'm really asking there is, can we more clearly make that analogy that you alluded to earlier, that turn of century New Orleans was like modern day Silicon Valley? Eric: So think about it in terms of it being very... View Details
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