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- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
a set of assumptions and wanted us to estimate inventory. I'm a very visual person so I would normally want to write down the info to run the numbers. It's tough to absorb the scenario when there are cameras and everyone is waiting for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
China, whether over trade, Taiwan, Tibet, or some other as yet subliminal issue. The scenario may seem implausible. Yet it is easy to see how future historians could retrospectively construct plausible chains of causation to explain such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
for decision-making and leadership, in these overlapping public-private realms.” Speaking at luncheon, on the opening day of the conference, Haass, a former State Department official, posited three possible scenarios for the world’s... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
learn from real-life scenarios as well as from their peers and mentors. Prashant Pundrik (PLDA 9, 2014) rear center, and Katherine Toh (AMP 24, 2023) rear, right, meet with mentees in Singapore. Jeremy Tan (MBA 2008), who currently runs... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
discrimination, where companies have various prices at the same time for different customers, depending on everything from geography to browsing history. Donald Ngwe: This has always been the best-case scenario for any seller, but it... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a makeshift bar with some of the other executives who had just laid out rosy scenarios and hockey-stick returns to potential investors, the truth came out. One of the... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
asked Simmons to work alongside Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona, putting in 80 to 100 hours a week to safely reopen Connecticut schools and ensure all students had a laptop and internet access. “It was an experience of, okay, we’re no longer in a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
pools. Barely a month later, a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and caused a 10-foot tsunami to smash into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, cutting off grid power and drowning the backup generators. The plants’ spent-fuel pools began to boil... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
share ideas and activities focused on solutions. “Each week, we take the best available new information and share it. Then we talk about where we are now and where are we going,” says Seftel. “We ask, ‘what are the scenarios out there and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
we’re burning down the house and we have to stop? When is it going to happen?” And he looks at me and says, “You know, change is really slow until it’s fast.” One of the things I do with businesspeople is a very simple scenario analysis:... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
“The presentation detailed different scenarios that could lead to a Constitutional crisis and how things might unfold after election,” says Van Sheets (MBA 1983), who organized the event, which was open to Harvard Club of Dallas members... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
scenario carries a caveat, though, according to research by HBS assistant professor Susan Kulp. Her work suggests that the profit gains of VMI depend on both the retailer's willingness to provide detailed demand information and the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this understanding back into our... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
mix-ups. The situation has given birth to a burgeoning industry of Y2K debuggers, along with articles, books, and Web sites proposing likely scenarios and possible safeguards. Government and corporate sectors in this country have begun to... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
death. I've done all these what-if scenarios. The problem with what-if scenarios is you never get to play out what would have happened. You're just guessing, you don't know. It takes a while—well, it can take a while—it did with me.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
have to earn our place at the table every day," notes McCance, who is currently Greylock's chairman. "The star is the entrepreneur. We want to win the award for best supporting actor." Other successful scenarios have played out numerous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Our commission is conducting an Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment for the eight Arctic nations, looking at scenarios in which ice conditions and so forth are not the limiting factor. Are Northern people convinced that climate change is... View Details