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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
profile, MacDonald said about his HBS experience, “I learned that total ice-cold objectivity is unattainable. Each man has his own warps and biases. To think properly, one must be aware of these emotional hang-ups, and make allowances for them. This was the lesson in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
campaign. To “put it all into action,” she says, the HBSLAA is assembling the Latinx Board Taskforce, aimed at connecting board-ready Latinx alumni and board decision makers to “move the needle on driving diversity in the boardroom.” Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
ever fired a manager for unethical conduct and how whistle-blowers fared at the prior company. Q: You've suggested that companies use your decision tree to provide ethical guidance. Can you provide an... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- Portrait Project
Simon Belsham
Did the tree really notice me? Last summer I stood high-up in the shady branches of a giant African Baobab in Botswana, feeling so small in the presence of something so grand and old. 150 years ago English missionaries would leave... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
shortcuts and heuristics, and therefore they're susceptible to biases and mistakes. The implication is that if maybe they thought more, they'd do better. "And then there's this whole stream of research about ways in which you should think more carefully in more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
others. It was attended by about half the section, which probably skipped a class with the permission of the instructor. Adored by Section E for his quick wit, warm personality, and brilliance in teaching the decision View Details
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
says, “and parked underneath a tree to meet with gang members. We asked them, ‘What could the city do over the next three, six, and twelve months to improve lives and reduce gun violence?’” The point, Patel understood, was to build trust... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
leaders must bring to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in their companies, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, and how they align behaviors to their specific growth initiatives. Planting New View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
negative to our brand?’ At JDRF, when I arrived, brand management and having brand as part of the decision tree was a new practice.” There is one other big difference between PepsiCo and nonprofits such as... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
says, “and parked underneath a tree to meet with gang members. We asked them, ‘What could the city do over the next three, six, and twelve months to improve lives and reduce gun violence?’” The point, Patel understood, was to build trust... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and Neil Calvanese (Columbia Univ.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
follows Figel as she dives into the data to use it to build a model. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-021 LendingClub (B): Decision Trees... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Frank Spencer
dramatic increase in personnel. "We had an incredible staff in place," he explains. "The team just needed a coach to get them organized to run the right plays." He cites HBS for providing that know-how, and more: "Do we need to be able to build... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
our bets, or buying insurance, or educating ourselves about the risks so that we can make better-informed decisions in the future. We use these approaches because they work. And in dealing with climate change we would have more sensible... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
It's an unhappy yet unavoidable fact: Sometimes, retail chains go out of business. Moreover, even healthy chains periodically must close down some existing stores. When stores have to be liquidated—when "everything must go"—a series of View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman