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- 11 May 2018
- News
Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact
Photo via CBS News Photo via CBS News A recent CBS news story on Nigerian tech startup Andela—a software development firm—includes an interview with Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014), Andela’s president of global operations. Reflecting on his View Details
- Web
Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge
Career and Workplace Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move Featuring Jon M. Jachimowicz . By Kara Baskin on July 7, 2025 . Many people are afraid to give up a career that has lost... View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
"Understand that this vaccine that's being approved is not like other approved drugs." Expect side effects. That’s going to happen with this wave of drug approvals. They simply have higher risk. Now, are the benefits worth that risk? They might be. You’re going to have... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sabina Robinov
"right," the rational thing to do. As a fifteen year old, I was already thinking about the long term and my ability to take care of my family. Getting A grades became my highest priority. Choosing my career path was a matter of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
consequences of these changes and shifts for the firm's success, strategy, and organization. A Choice Prediction Competition, for Choices from Experience and from Description Authors:Ido Erev, Eyal Ert,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Tricia Lee
perspectives, and how to debate issues in all of those contexts. HBS was an easy choice - the case method, the general management focused education, the quality of both students and faculty, and even the structure of the program all fit... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
successful that the business has real problems. In sustaining-success situations, new leaders have to win the confidence of the organization so that they are trusted to make tough choices about where the business should go. In both cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
men are more interested in group identity. "Women hold back on what they want to claim," she said, adding that, "this may be a more functional strategy for women. Strong personal relationships may be more important to women's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program
look into it because they knew how interested I was in business. Although I studied mechanical engineering, I was also getting a second degree in management science, and I knew that my future career would be more business-oriented than... View Details
- December 2004 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Esrey & LeMay Sprint Options, The
By: Henry B. Reiling and Kevin Wall
Sprint's outside auditor simultaneously provided tax advice--including the recommendation of tax shelters related to Sprint options--to senior Sprint officers. These tax structures were called into question amid circumstances that raise a variety of conflicting issues... View Details
- 2012
- Article
The Excess Burden of Government Indecision
By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics
Gomes, Francisco J., Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira. "The Excess Burden of Government Indecision." Tax Policy and the Economy 26 (2012): 125–163.
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Financial Management of Smaller Firms Course Number 1452 Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Professor of Management Practice Royce Yudkoff Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course is... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Don’t give up your power
we’ve made a mistake, as opposed to taking the lesson from the mistake and then moving on. “There have been many situations throughout my business career where I’m the only woman, and probably twice as many where I’m the only person of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sridevi Raghavan
friends – what a bad game I played! But I saw how much I enjoyed learning new things, and creating the possibility of new beginnings. When I watch my childhood friend put her lucrative career on hold for her husband and child, I learn the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
which is hard to explain by the traditional leverage tradeoff with financial distress that emphasizes downside risk. The results are robust to a variety of specification choices and control variables. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
opportunities to be creative, albeit different ones than those of an advertising copywriter. My career journey has not always been easy and positive, no career journey is. I’ve learned I prefer to stay away... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 808-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
well received. A new program, Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, was designed to bring together alumnae — many of whom have reduced their professional commitments for some time in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
funded HIV clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Intervention: The study involved three arms. First, participants in the provider visit incentive (PVI) arm received $30 after attending each scheduled provider visit. Second, participants in the incentive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
choice to pursue an MBA not only to grow my business skillset but also to explore other career paths that would become available upon graduating from HBS. When I arrived to HBS, I (like most classmates)... View Details