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- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
which the top five candidates qualify for the general election. Part two is ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the general election, where voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins a majority of first-place votes,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
irony Edwards savors with a smile: “At several public meetings at the White House, President Bush has referred to me as ‘my congressman.’” But not for much longer if the Republican Party has its way. The GOP painted a big target on... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
scandal generating more than five New York Times pieces in the month following news of the incident led to an 8.8 percent drop; and long-form coverage of a scandal was followed by a 10.4 percent decline. “These long-form stories that go... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Atlanta area, but the only college in Georgia founded solely by African-American patronage. The school lost its accreditation in 2004, but has worked diligently since then... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
entrepreneurship and venture capital are especially exciting right now? Josh Lerner: One of the big changes in venture capital in the last decade is the rise of “personalized” entrepreneurial finance. That includes crowdfunding platforms... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% of the class joining the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
cost transparency would be helpful [in motivating buyers] if the price of the shirt was $10. But even at $35, we still saw an advantage to revealing the cost of production, which is interesting because the markup was five times the cost."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, and since then many have stepped up... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
passion for rowing and a desire to make a difference in Mexico. “Rowing is my meditation,” says the Pan American Games medalist who continues to participate in international rowing competitions. He returned to Mexico for college and has lived there since, excluding... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
bomber's a great airplane, but you're flying for four hours at night and there's about five minutes of intense action and the rest of it, you're driving around in a big airplane at night. It no longer gave... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
in companies like Check Point, one of the first big firewall companies. Rothrock listened to the speech and thought: “Finally.” As in, at last—the government is waking up to a reality that the tech community realized long ago. “The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
the oats for Cheerios,” she remembers. “I had the great fortune to go to headquarters periodically, and decided to move to the marketing division.” She spent most of her time in the company’s Big G Division, working with products such as... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its ability to challenge existing norms. And now she's transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund, a new model of funding for contemporary arts.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
long second act in the software sector. But about five years ago, he decided it was time for a big change. Todd Brix: I had learned enough about software and had enough time in the software industry, [and]... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing, and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who... View Details