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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
slave to the markets, as it were,” she says. “So that is a big factor in his decision-making process.” Do a thorough assessment. Talk to people in the areas and roles that are of interest to you, to see if you’re a strong fit, and “very... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
change will require thoughtful action over several years,” say Otten and Kaplan. “Our biggest risk may be not to continue our work after the 2020 election, thereby not resolving these risks for future generations.” To get the message out, Otten says the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that are locked into early-stage View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
overseen the venture. While the five-year time span of the initial project is now officially over, a group of alumnae from the Class of 1976 designated that their class gift support and continue the effort. Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
hours has been right here." Snapshots from the conference follow. Problem: Air Traffic US airport congestion ranks with the world's worst, with more than 25 percent of flights arriving more than 15 minutes late, says advocacy group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
fun. Godtfred championed slow, steady growth. Because of this, it could take years for a new product to go to market. Green bricks, for instance, appeared in play sets only after a decade-long decision-making process. The snail's pace... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
their aspiration. Over dinner, Seth spoke passionately to the group about capitalism and the responsibilities of business leaders. His words resonated with many and I am delighted to share them here, for all the School’s alumni, with his... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our brains, Polli knew that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
how can a CEO avoid making decisions that favor short-term results, even if those choices lead to predictable surprises? What I would like to take out of corporate decision-making are situations where a special-interest View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
study program. This group will also work with HBS faculty and students in programs to encourage women to pursue high-level careers in management. C200 will assist the initiative by helping to identify women who are key View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Ford’s Premier group (including brands such as Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Land Rover). With this wealth of international experience, when asked to identify essential “global management” qualities and skills, Fields replies, “Strong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Emory Healthcare sent a team of managers and clinicians to the Managing Healthcare Delivery program. From left, Dane Peterson, Dallis Howard-Crow, Bryce Gartland, and Susan Grant at Emory University’s School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. A small View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the decision-making process. From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy, by Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson, focuses on a new breed of global company — the metanational — that is turning the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
success put them in a group even more exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
There is also a network effect at work in that everyone on a project needs to use the tool for it to generate the most value to any one user or to the system. I would study what Slack did and get the tool into the hands of groups of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
political activism in more direct ways, as well. "We're actually one of the most powerful citizen-action groups in the nation," she says. In 1999, Working Assets launched a progressive talk-radio station in Boulder, Colorado, which is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
what separates a practical approach to business decision-making from a more theoretical approach that says, “There is a right answer, and you just have to find it.” Life isn’t like that in my experience. LIGHT: “If there is an overarching... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
decision-making to negotiation. HBX Live is a virtual HBS classroom experience bringing together participants from around the world. Bridges, a three-day capstone course introduced in 2015, gives graduating MBA students an opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
learned about the effects of one-to-one tutoring—that in a live environment with one great teacher and one student, you get amazing outcomes relative to group instruction. The challenge is that we can't afford one great teacher for each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
value, to promise so much more good than harm. Such is the sobering message about the high stakes of technology decision-making that rings in the ears of tomorrow’s managers as they leave the classroom. Rocket Science and Socrates Taking... View Details