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- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
defining and validating the products I was trying to create for users. That led to more frustration than was probably necessary on my part, and it took longer than necessary to meet customers' needs. The curriculum across the MBA is the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester
Recruiting, like most things in life, is all about timing. If you don’t initiate those conversations early-on, you’ll probably be beat out by someone (whether at HBS or another school) who does. Expressed interest equates to perceived... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
In the words of David Eisen (MBA 2001), CEO of the rapidly growing vegan food-maker Plant Snacks, “there’s probably nothing more important for your everyday behavior—as a person, and as a steward for your household—than what you consume.... View Details
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Data Science for Managers 2 - Course Catalog
from a relational data base. Module 2 : Inference: This module’s topics include probability distributions, Monte Carlo simulation, Clustering, K-Means, and variable transformations and interaction terms in linear and logistic regression.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
considered rude in some cultures, in the United States a steady gaze conveys self-confidence, directness, and honesty. “The bar for this is very high,” Butler observes. “By trying for eye contact 90 percent of the time, you will probably... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
level who have the potential to move up, and you need to be really proactive about developing their potential,” Eberle Walker says. “That’s probably the opportunity leaders overlook most often.” The third step was being explicit with the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Laura Ucros Tellez
battle I was fighting, but for the first time ever, I was losing control. I tried pretending I was fine, and I probably looked okay to those around me. Eventually my mental health deteriorated to a point where I couldn’t keep hiding it... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
knew, in search of an alternative. The governor ultimately identified someone who could help get the masks produced in China and navigate the other on-the-ground tangles. “‘The question then became: how do you actually make the pickup work,’ Baker said, noting it would... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
right you are going to be ill, your brain probably won’t develop, you’ll be physically stunted, you won’t be in school or you won’t be able to pay attention in school. So we are working in the poorest communities and trying to build that... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Don’t give up your power
we’ve made a mistake, as opposed to taking the lesson from the mistake and then moving on. “There have been many situations throughout my business career where I’m the only woman, and probably twice as many where I’m the only person of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
imagine a scenario in which a firm asks its customers to tell their friends about a particular product in exchange for giving these people monetary benefits. Although such a scheme will probably benefit the company, it will also View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Morrell: Now, the interest that you've had in living a sort of quantified life, your first year out of HBS, can you talk about what prompted it? Grana: I think, as a lot of people probably have, HBS is sort of a break from the real world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
moving off the shelf fast enough to yield $1 million, you probably have a consumer-marketing problem more than a financing problem. Do you know how well your product is moving off the shelf? It is easy to think you are succeeding based on... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
in Calgary on a project for Hyatt in the dead of February, eating a bison burger, and I hadn’t been home in months,” she recalls. “I thought, you know, I probably should start looking.” That moment of clarity led to a project manager... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
resource. All sorts of smart people will state categorically that $60 oil will basically destroy the world economies. Give me a break! It would be a good thing for oil prices to go up? It would be a wonderful thing for the world economy for energy prices to get to a... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
work with Red Beacon, winner of TechCrunch50 in 2009, has helped position its founders for their first round of financing. After graduation, Jonathan wants "to move to Silicon Valley and join a startup, probably something in consumer... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
and to take action quickly on less data, which is probably a result of studying so many cases and testing some of the principles on the job." Next year, TGM's administrators hope to attract more clusters of general managers from a single... View Details
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