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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Rothschild’s private placement group), took an interest in her and became a mentor. After graduating, Brown worked at CSFB in New York for four years in real estate and private equity before enrolling at HBS. Last summer, she worked in... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
Virginia. When I was growing up in Virginia, it didn't even exist. It's one of these big emerging state universities that is growing by leaps and bounds and has 10,000 students and ten years before that hadn't even existed. And I was... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the full size and development that they need. Dan Morrell: Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Lal Kidwai and her sister lived in a household where business and social issues were important family concerns. When she visited her father in his office, she sat in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
such “conceptual consumption” is essential for understanding human consumption. We first review how four classes of conceptual consumption—consuming expectancies, goals, fluency, and regulatory fit—impact physical consumption. Next, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
for others?" But there was little controversy and not much discussion. These conversations, the offline talks before the big meeting, the CEO's backing, and the meeting itself seemed to produce agreement. So we started... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo. Carroll and her husband, David, have View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
the first big thing, which is managing reviews. Now how do you manage reviews? There are three types of ways that you can manage reviews as a hotel. You can manage the location of the review. People are probably going to review your... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
increasing savings, reduce gas consumption) but does not want to make them. This intrasubjective tension between "multiple selves" has been referred to as a "want/should" conflict. In four experiments we show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a blue-haired magician named LeBlanc across the Fields of Justice, hurling spells at the enemy’s minions. He narrates the chaotic game, often profanely, as he and his four teammates confront their opponents, another team of gamers. Each... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique challenges that many of its neighboring... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
literature, we still operate with a sort of history of the commanding heights of German capitalism. For instance, we all know about the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, or Commerzbank. Yet the Big Four banks have a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
don’t have clubs about mental health,” adds another. “Some other schools are working on these kinds of things, and we’ll be glad to be an advocate for that with your principal,” Langford says. “Don’t think there’s any question or issue that’s too View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
sophisticated that it can basically fly itself. If everything goes right in an Airbus A380 flight, the pilot will fly the plane for about eight minutes-- four minutes when it takes off, four minutes when it... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
further, the researchers ran the experiment again, except this time they added another twist. Four different fraternities took part, each knowing that the other three were competing, too. Before the experiment, each brother received a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
evidence from two large banking organizations, I argue that systematic variations in ERM practices exist in the financial services industry. The cases illustrate four risk management ideal types and show how they form the 'risk management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace