Judgment Of Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
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A Roundabout Path

To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without the support that a... View Details

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

knowledge yourself to help the CEO and the senior executives. This episode of Skydeck was edited by Jocelyn Gonzalez from PRX productions. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations Department at Harvard... View Details

30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

them. In order to get those two jobs done in the context of an MBA, it's actually quite hard, because we're organized to give them knowledge and we don't equip them to do these other jobs well. And then when... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

explained, humans across cultures share predilections ranging from choices of habitation sites to preferred colors and visual forms. "In twenty or thirty years," Wilson said, "our knowledge View Details

01 Feb 1997
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OPM Reunion Snapshots

deal of respect for the faculty and the institution." Like many who attended the OPM reunion, Sorensen traveled a great distance. "I love to learn," he says, "and I saw this as an opportunity to expand my View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books

Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their web links. Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals without Mandates Associate Professor... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Himalayan Journey

Visions of Bhutan: October 2004 Bhutan photo gallery Prayer flags fluttering gently in the wind; crystalline alpine air; monks’ robes in glowing red; and everywhere warm faces, people smiling, children waving. This is the remote Himalayan... View Details

Keywords: Janet Sanders; Hospitality

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Ramnath’s ICICI Venture Funds) was an investment in Baazee, the Internet auction site founded by Avnish Bajaj and Suvir Sujan (both MBA ’98) that was sold to eBay in 2004 for $50 million. Recently, Sujan launched a venture- capital fund with two partners. “The top U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

I'd say it was to educate leaders and build knowledge on a global scale. BULLETIN: In several previous interviews and speeches, you've stressed the importance to the School of what you've called... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand

whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Oct 1998
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A Career to Smile About

of acquired knowledge and experience across regions and nations is a key to business success. And with dozens of wildly different markets and ongoing geopolitical... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

15 Dec 2024
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Back at the Ranch

to do this work, so whether we’re building fences or moving pallets of minerals or taking care of cattle, we try to give them a ton of free manpower. In return, we get a lot... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Dec 2007
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Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Broadband: Remaking the... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

wide range of experiences, opinions, and practical knowledge about cultivating leadership, entrepreneurship, and empowerment. Six panel discussions presented on the second day View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

15 Jun 2021
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Action Plan: Come as You Are

Ethnobotany 101, a large multimedia piece by Cree artist Jane Ash Poitras, which juxtaposes preconceived notions of Indigenous culture with the deep knowledge and connection of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; museums; art; cognition; diversity; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

11 Oct 2022
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On Balance

to do the same work as her. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of gender discrimination,” she observes. The knowledge that women across Australia have... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)

successful entrepreneurs. His business strategy? “If it is art that inspires me, it’s going to inspire other people, and they will buy it. It’s really as simple as that.” On getting an art education: “One of the great things about art is... View Details