Personalized Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

two as personal assistant to the legendary Siegmund Warburg, the firm’s founder and chairman. That was quite a postgraduate education. When I got homesick for America, Siegmund helped me land a job at Kuhn Loeb in New York. Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books

tools learned building CFK to become a more effective counterinsurgent and peacekeeper. The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas (DBA ’87) (Jossey-Bass)... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

inbox is filled with success stories that describe his efforts as “holy work” and “nothing short of a miracle.” One person wonders, “Do you have any idea how many lives you’ve changed?” Another researcher comments, “From medical history... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2009
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When More Is Better

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is learning about all the amazing undertakings of the School’s 70,000-plus graduates. HBS alumni, it seems, command a fair amount of media attention, much of it for business endeavors: running... View Details

Keywords: meta

14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love

first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She weighed her options: She could donate... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

deep learning. “We are excited about emerging markets, where we see high adoption rates of technologies designed for the point-of-care,” she says. “In the United States, we can use deep learning to generate rich information that enables... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty

insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping people View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2015
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Ink

Book Review: Learning from Bill, Andy, and Steve The tuxedoed trio looking out from the cover of Harvard Business School Professor David B. Yoffie’s new book on strategy can be seen as the modern-day Mount Rushmore of business. At their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

lateral career move. There are benefits to being a working parent, of course—not only for family income and personal fulfillment but also potentially for children’s choices as adults. Research by Kathleen McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

reference points, students learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. They also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that will help them lead effectively when... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

online dialogues with students via the Internet. Forty-three alumni - all with vivid and fresh insights into their own successes and failures - agreed to participate in the innovative pilot project, which proved to be an extraordinary View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for the View Details

21 Dec 2018
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Bridging the Gap

two-thirds are still going to western Europe, where typically they are in an enclave of other American students, speaking English, learning from an American professor; and it’s pretty far from the immersive, perspective-changing... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided tour inside American health care... View Details

18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

personal data collection have a surprising ally: Scott Howe. Why? Because it's good for business. "How people think about data is going to change seismically in the coming years," says Howe. "Each of us will manage the data that is... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

they can be dispirited into cycles of learned helplessness rather than inspired to pursue their own possibilities. Yet this phenomenon is not universal. Some children thrive where others do not. Why? Are there View Details

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

Mendhro grew up with a desire to learn and experience the world, she had no formal opportunities to do so. “My brother and I would wake up in the morning and explore. It was self-learning,” she says. “Education became a View Details