life experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner

time together and embrace the experiences that force you out of your comfort zone. Megan and I had the time of our lives at HBS and made many lifelong friends in the process. We never would have imagined what a View Details

13 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Take a Seat in the Case Method Classroom

Have you ever wondered what it was like to experience Harvard Business School’s Case Method teaching style? Watch the Harvard MBA Case Method classroom brought to life by Professor Tsedal Neeley and a... View Details

05 Jul 2022
What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

Business School curriculum among those interested in studying business in 1908. I should know. I was invited to join the HBS faculty not to teach marketing, service management, or general management, among my later teaching assignments, but to help breathe View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Retail Work Breaking the Cycle The Good Jobs Strategy Show Hide Details Concepts Talent Linking Productivity and Customer Delight Competing on Flexibility Compensation Policy Featured Exercises Create an employee journey map to find ways to improve the employee View Details

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HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

healthiest embryo(s) for assisted reproductive therapy. Darza Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020 Business Track Runner-Up DARZA is a new e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping fashion experience at the lowest prices in the... View Details

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:... View Details

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Biologically-inspired Multi-agent Systems class I was taking at SEAS, I began developing a swarm intelligence to simulate the life of a small village. This simulation evolved into Regent: a cooperative, mobile, fully customizable... View Details

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

recent initiative that depends largely on student test scores to measure teacher efficacy. “There are all sorts of debates in the United States and, more generally, across the globe about how to improve the quality of students’ life in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

12 Jul 2016
News

Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

Keywords: Managerial Economics

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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

19 May 2023
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Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

Throughout my life I have always looked for a sense of community. A group of people I could depend on, who may or may not have shared similar interests but always supported me in personal growth and development through love and care. In... View Details

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

David Bradley’s ambitions for the first 40 years of his life were to enter politics, he is now at peace with the fact that public office is not his calling. That peace is buoyed by his success as an entrepreneur, media magnate,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

alumni-founded ventures across the globe, and a wet-lab building for life sciences ventures. It is overseen by Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration and the Peter O. Crisp Chair of the Harvard... View Details

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2019
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Meet the MBA Class of 2020

View Video Andrew Baxter “YOU BUILD UP PERSONAL CAPITAL BY SHARING COMMON EXPERIENCES.” HOME REGION St. Andrews, UK UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering, 2011 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Shell, Schlumberger HBS... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

life into the shipping industry. Though McLean had resigned from the presidency of McLean Trucking and placed his ownership in trust, seven railroads accused him of violating the Interstate Commerce Act. The accusers attempted to block... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

assumed she’d follow a "traditional path" toward medical school. But her advisor encouraged Peggy to think more holistically about her life and career. Even though Peggy enjoyed her lab work, she increasingly felt "it took... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

that it is available for rent on eBay. Klarman's legendary success as both an investor and a philanthropist belies another aspect of his personality: he enjoys living his life out of the spotlight. At Baupost's Boston headquarters,... View Details

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