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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
creation tactics, the club uses small-group strategy sessions led by trained career coaches to guide members through the job search process. “It’s a practical yet sophisticated approach to the job hunt,” said Angela Piscitello (MBA 1995),... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
technical, regulatory, and economic. Advances in technology, which enhance existing advertising capabilities and create new ones, reach well beyond the Internet and include things such as innovative new software, sophisticated data... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
to improve a potential deal that under the best of terms may still be unsatisfactory, more sophisticated negotiators carefully assess whether those efforts might be better spent away from the table, generating competing offers or... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
recognition, Patterson regularly outsells other “brand-name authors” such as Stephen King and Tom Clancy by simply publishing more books, averaging three titles each year with the occasional assistance of a coauthor. Patterson brings an ad man’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
score but instead to do the more sophisticated due diligence of a venture capital deal. “It’s asking a lot of the same questions that you would try to tease out in a conversation with someone. Are they reliable? Are they confident? Are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
created in a moment of conversation and connection that wasn’t about ease, speed, and convenience. What are the big questions for legacy retailers trying to find a way forward in this new space? AM: How to remain relevant. Most retailers are now View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
ready for widespread use is that while the technology is technically transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer, or even for the very sophisticated consumer. This shows up in the extent to which even very View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
government's administrative costs for Medicare are only about 5 percent. And I'm not sure that untrained consumers can ever become sophisticated enough to make truly informed choices about their medical needs, a scenario that some tout as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
have their eye on the prime rib too? Once they have learned to manufacture your product, they are in a much better position to move up the food chain into manufacturing and designing more sophisticated components and subsystems and,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
people, with sophisticated tactics for building partnerships with them. The book explains the dynamics of power and encourages managers to engage in difficult conversations, overcome their fear of no, let go of their problems with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
manages to combine sophisticated concepts of physics with high fantasy in a marvelous way." Heartlight was followed by the equally acclaimed The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect, contemporary mythic tales featuring an adventurous young... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
billboard-shaped notices -- about 10 percent of those who saw the ads were enticed to click on them. These surfers were taken to the sponsor's Web site, and a new age in advertising had begun. Today, advertising on the Internet is much more View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
custom voice system, which means there’s a whole range of small- and mid-sized businesses that are underserved,” Sambvani says. With Slang.ai, he’s offering mid-market companies access to these more sophisticated tools that can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets, and collecting the cash they’re owed without regard for other... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
Mumbai, Bhandari looked at companies developing sophisticated diagnostic and treatment tools that, she says, “could have huge potential to improve rural health care—if they could be made affordably.” To Bhandari, the financial aid she has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
call center. There are three different components: emergency management, research, and an institute. The first is the most immediately transformative. Using sophisticated software developed by Satyam, 108 operators use GPS and mobile... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
expertise in building businesses transferred? Southeast Asian management learning, pre- and post-Asian crisis: Have there been changes in management practice in Southeast Asia in the wake of the Asian economic crisis? Broadband development: Hong Kong and Singapore have... View Details