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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
help others develop,” explains Hesham. “If you help someone become a better leader, that person can help 1,000 others.” That, the couple agree, is a worthwhile investment. View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
If you happen to be in need of human cadavers, you'll have more success targeting married nursery school teachers than, say, married cowboys or firefighters. That's essentially the implication of a new study that explores a previously unstudied subset of the American... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
firms in front of the profit curve despite a high level of integration, Christensen, Raynor, and Verlinden assert. "To the extent a company like IBM maintains the flexibility to couple and decouple operations rather than irrevocably sell... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
the president and the CEO. “We were tiny, we were $4 billion in assets, a couple of hundred people. But I look at Vanguard [today], it's a thousand times as big as when I joined. And it's a far better company. Most companies that grow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
and Neil P. Simpkins (both MBA 1992) Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins stepped up early in their class's 20th Reunion Campaign with a generous gift to establish a fellowship fund for students involved in the nonprofit sector. As members of the Leadership Gifts Steering... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
likely would have been eligible for another couple of years of LRAP funding, but we were really grateful for how much the LRAP funding had already helped us and were happy to knock out our debt and let other future students enjoy the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
just silence. No bubbling energy before the start of class, no chit-chat to catch up on the weekend’s gossip, no plans for the next travel destination. Everything that marked the daily hustle and bustle of the MBA experience was gone. Video Embed The next View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Committee for two, and humbly as its President for the last year. To be honest, I didn't even know the Board existed before receiving the invitation to join, but I viewed it as a way to engage more consistently and formally with the School, with an added benefit of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting, he shows how to reverse this situation, including... View Details
- Portrait Project
Antonio Rocha
friends, my job, and getting divorced. I would be lying if I said I planned all those changes. I did not. They just happened, fast and unexpectedly. I just knew that I needed to change something, and I am glad I did. The past couple years... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan Abstract—Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured by the German army and brought... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
over to the next generation in a better place than we found it.” He jokes that H&W builds a new brewery every 100 years. “That’s the sort of time frame we think about—not what return we can get over the next couple of years,” he says.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
broad-based success, coupled with Atlantic-branded events and rising advertising revenues, has driven six straight years of profitability. Sometimes described as a “media mogul,” Bradley never expected to find himself leading an... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’
Our project looks at how five nearby parks can better share resources (labor, equipment, training programs, etc.) to improve efficiency. During the last couple of weeks, we have been interviewing key staff members at the parks. It is time... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
implications from suboptimal peer-selection. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance By: MacCormack, Alan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
throughout the ranks; everybody in the organization must understand what they're doing and why they're doing it. In Managers as Teachers, we use a couple of examples — Alcoa and Toyota — to show how to disseminate the lessons of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
brain that records time. Further, it measures the time associated with a task and sets our expectations in subsequently performing similar tasks. That's why we become so impatient when it takes a couple of extra seconds to access our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
partnerships are key for BaubleBar now, as were the pop up stores the past couple years. Anthropologie now carries BaubleBar pieces, and the partnership is off to a great start given the customer fit. Other deals are in the works, and the... View Details