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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

economic instability—the MBA Program has strengthened its commitment to a diverse and engaged HBS community. To ensure that applicants have the appropriate resources to succeed at the School, the MBA Program... View Details

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

scrolling through Instagram and that, "Oh, must be nice to be in Havana right now," or all these sorts of things. But talk about its applications to business decisions, to being an investor. How does that... View Details

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

statistical analysis, there are relatively few projects (approximately 300 per year, but only 40 to 50 large ones costing more than $500 million). These projects tend to have long lives and many idiosyncratic features. As a result,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin (MBA 1982), who leads HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016

to serve as a living model of a well-run organization—consistent with the skills, tools, and frameworks taught across the School’s educational programs. Achieving this goal starts with transparency. To that end, our fiscal 2016 financial... View Details

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

“Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress,” coauthors Professor Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner look at Israel in 2020, when the demand for View Details

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014

Publishing (HBP) and Executive Education, as well as philanthropic income from gifts, HBS was solidly cash flow positive, extending a record that began more than a decade ago. This cash flow enabled HBS to fund its core educational... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

much as you play. There are podcasts and videos by poker coaches; then there are poker solvers and software where you can analyze what you would do in every single situation.... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

our time a different way." Directors' reflections on the board's role had multiple dimensions. For some, the question was whether and how exclusively the board should focus on compliance with applicable laws... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations... View Details

19 Mar 2006
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Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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Casey Gerald

yes. Second, are we providing deep and lasting impacts on entrepreneurs? The answer is yes. And third, are we telling stories that can pierce the culture? And the answer is... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

feeling, so therefore it’s worthy of study. The second thing is figuring out that, when you study it, you get better at it. This is not of theoretical interest; the more you know, the happier you can get. When it turns out there is knowledge that can be acquired View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

FCC sold government-owned frequencies for wireless communications through applications and lotteries, which was costly and inefficient. The new auction format made it easier... View Details

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

million toward Vectograph production and established the Polaroid War School where more than fifteen hundred military personnel learned how to make Vectographs. Early applications of the process at... View Details

30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules

skills in the house, spent his after-school hours submitting hundreds of job applications on her behalf. But even after following all the advice he could mine from Google and the public library, they didn’t... View Details

10 Jul 2000
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IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

presentation and application activity. "The levels at which computers communicate have been formalized," said Upton. "This is important as we begin to understand what's happening on the 'Net... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and to interpret results from running codes into insights useful for decision... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

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