Planning Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

buy or sell stock. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders/ar/1 Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

judge to believe there's some business justification, and then they can make this whole sale happen in, like, 30 days.” Restructuring is less costly Rushing the process may be short-sighted for companies and creditors, costing both... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of... View Details

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to handle changing workforce needs that make sparing use of staff reductions and ensure that if they do happen, the process feels fair and the affected parties have a soft landing. Most successful approaches begin with a philosophy that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

errors when making decisions. Fortunately, behavioral economics offers tools to help people reach better outcomes. By changing the environment in which choices are made, for example by changing the process used to select options from a... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

co-president of the Africa Business Club. She is also a part of the Women’s Student Association, African American Student Union, the Black Investment Club, the MoMBA Club, and the Wine & Cuisine Club. After graduation she plans to... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

Club ’s plans for visiting startups over break via West Trek, NYC trek, and other locations Build your knowledge of the trends in different startup industries: Attend Tech , CAML , and E-ship club speaker series and conferences. Research... View Details

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Diversity and Equity - Alumni

percent of its venture teams—on how women are changing the game. Cases Featuring Black Protagonists HBS faculty are in the process of expanding the School's collection of cases featuring Black protagonists. A special series of the “Cold... View Details

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

officer. It is based at LabCentral, an incubator space in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, which is also an operating partner for the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round to double the size... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking system... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

several months in stealth mode while perfecting a full-featured product and planning an expensive launch party at a Las Vegas trade show. Rather, the lean startup launches as quickly as possible with what Ries calls a "minimum viable... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

operated this way or felt this way. Many are relieved to hear the condition has a name." Harvard is fertile ground for HNAPs, too. DeLong plans to make his book required reading in the second year courses on Authentic Leadership and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

forecasts as an input into the government budgeting-making process would probably reduce official forecast errors for budget deficits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51324 College Tuition, Public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key Stakeholders Key Stakeholders... View Details

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

to plan and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

be divided into strategic and operational activities. Strategic activities include, among others, long-term capacity planning and network configuration of warehouses, distributors, and retail stores. Examples of operational activities... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

decision theory in which we were advised to construct decision trees, mapping outcomes, attaching values to each one, and estimating probabilities that various combinations of outcomes might occur. Judgment entered into the construction of the resulting "decision... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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News - Research Computing Services

for utilization of the GPU resources: What resources will you be requesting (e.g., # CPUs, # GPUs, and RAM size) per job? For workflows that process datasets larger than 50-100 GB: how will you process your... View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

Action Plan Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. HBS is a partnership among faculty, students, staff, and alumni. We will take direct action to attract Black talent to all four parts of this partnership more... View Details

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