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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
manufacturers often discard the products sent to them by outside inventors without even looking at them. Because of their hurdle rate—the minimum return required on a contemplated investment—they probably don't have the time or resources... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
Conjure, if you can, a mental picture of air travel in its heyday. All the delights you’re probably envisioning right now—indulgent meal service, bottomless beverage carts, perhaps even pillbox hats—were provided by the airlines, says... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
requirement in the School's MBA curriculum. "Mike Porter is probably the world's most influential business academic and one of a handful of the most influential who has ever lived," said HBS professor Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus... View Details
- Profile
Anna King
day." "I'm probably a little bit of an odd duck in that I don’t know exactly what I want to do or where I'll be in five years," says Anna, acknowledging the personal and practical pressures that come with the pursuit of an... View Details
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Alex Furleigh
sophomore-year biology in high school showed me that animals were probably meant to be a fascination for me rather than a career. What is your favorite childhood memory? Hiking in Colorado every other summer with my family. From group... View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
“That’s probably the opportunity leaders overlook most often.” The third step was being explicit with the recruiting team: “It’s not about saying ‘I prioritize diversity but ultimately I’m going to hire the best person for the job.’... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
overtones," Nichols recalls with a hearty laugh. It seems that on her first day at the School, a male student asked her how she could feel good about enrolling at HBS. Wasn't she depriving a man, probably one with a family to support, of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
struck every quarter hour. He liked it, and a few years later found that he had four more clocks to put into storage when he journeyed from Switzerland to attend HBS. “That’s probably not typical for someone just graduating from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the companies that we fund. They're the... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
the Harvard-Radcliffe Program, and then at the end of that it was just about the time the Harvard-Radcliffe Program was ending. And so we were told that Harvard Business School itself would be much more receptive to admitting women into their program, and I think we... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
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When Generations Learn Together
from the program. (JS): In my MBA program, it took me a while to learn how to participate. Bracken has just been very natural. Whenever he has an insight, he shares it. He was probably the youngest participant in both programs, but it... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
family, is bullying John McCain. But now we have a presidential candidate who is bullying half of the country. And there was a very significant shift. And a bunch of people making decisions in the aftermath of that. So that was probably... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
not saying people can't do it, but if something is going to be scalable to the millions of workers who will be entering the system in the coming years, that idea doesn't work as a core strategy." Participants in the system can view their account at any time and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
capriciousness of markets lately, we have also as a class had a full dose of the capriciousness of corporate power, in the form of mergers, acquisitions, reengineerings, and downsizings. (Indeed, we probably fostered some of the caprice.)... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
securities are pooled and tranched. Their simulation uses pools consisting of 100 bonds with a five-year default probability of 5 percent and a recovery rate of 50 percent of face value conditional on default. Within each pool, the... View Details
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Carolin Oldenbuettel
in consulting, “but I want to see how it works out.” After graduation, she will join Bain & Co. in Boston. “I’ll start as a generalist, but there’s a high probability of conducting due diligence for PE clients and getting projects in... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
in its elements, but the stakes were enormously different. It’s probably the largest private-sector, competitive economic development project in US history.” And it was successful for Moret and the estimated 500 other people who worked on... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
business of creating and managing “equine portfolios,” making Thoroughbred ownership a reality for anyone with the will (and the wallet) to get in the game. “I’m probably the only owner that bought his first horse on credit cards,” Finley... View Details
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those lifetime employers, and you don't change management," Nisa explains. "Within that year, I probably said I was quitting two... View Details