Learning By Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
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Runner-Up and Lovin’ It

Cuban, billionaire Internet entrepreneur and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Being runner-up isn’t so bad after all, Jackson told Van Susteren. “I think where God closes a door, he opens a window,” said Jackson. “And you’ve got to... View Details

Keywords: The Apprentice; Corporate Services

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

learning in the context of outsourced radiological services, where individual doctors at an outsourcing firm complete radiological reads for hospital customers. We examine more than 2.7 million cases for 1,431 customers read View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA

experience at HBS is the case method. This collaborative approach to learning has exposed me to new ways of thinking and has provided creative methods of structuring solutions to problems. It has also... View Details

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

presents researchers with the possibility of using large and new datasets related to text and image repositories. In this paper, we make a methodological contribution to strategy research by documenting a novel synthesis of two machine... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Year in 2020. Hubert Joly : Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in 2016. Geoffrey G. Jones : Selected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 for distinction in the social sciences. Rosabeth M. Kanter : View Details

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

broader business world, skew heavily towards being extroverted. As I approach the end of my time at HBS however, I realize just how many other introverts I’ve met (a Harbus article estimates that 35% to 55% of HBS students are introverts). Introversion is often too... View Details

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

ones. Don’t defer quality of life issues until retirement; ask yourself what “living well” means for you here and now. Pursue complementarity If you have spouse or partner, your career is not pursued in isolation, but in parallel with their careers and/or interests.... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

thinking principles and innovative problem-solving tools to address business challenges and build products, strategies, teams, and environments for optimal use and performance. The program was developed by... View Details

03 Jan 2023
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How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

(iStockphoto/400tmax) While summarizing comments to this same question asked about Jack Welch in last month’s column (shown below), I received word of Frances Hesselbein’s death. Welch was regarded by many as the greatest CEO of the 20th... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

team leader. Perelson was especially pleased to learn about HBS’s new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, which would enable him to bridge the worlds of business and engineering by developing insights... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Competing in the Age of AI

Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Working Groups Update | About

the issues they expect to understand and address (see below); to identify how they might engage members of our community, whether on the working groups, through focus groups and conversations, or by providing opportunities for education;... View Details

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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

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Shira Asa-El

to HBS is like Embarking on a self-search journey. You get challenged every day, surprisingly by your classmates more than anyone else! Even when you think you have a strong opinion backed with rock-solid... View Details

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

thinking about the next step of my career. I’d learned a lot at Google while working on some of the biggest mobile apps and products in the world, getting exposure to thinking... View Details

11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC... View Details

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

harnessing the latest technology to educate students, conduct real-world research and share impactful insights with practitioners worldwide, and provide lifelong learning to alumni. Reinventing the Future of Business As rapid... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

strategies, and tools to set and communicate direction, influence through other managers, generate organizational alignment, drive innovation, and engineer change. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and... View Details

30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in... View Details