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- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
She hopes the results make business leaders think twice about how they size up their customers and rely on previous purchases to predict the products they want. “For instance, imagine you see a person buy a plain black backpack,” she says. “You View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
to provide them properly in the United States.” Reflecting on the Owner/President Management program that he attended at HBS, Benitez said: “One of the things that probably any OPMer in the world is going to be able to share with you is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that bought soap. I’m View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Bryan Guerra...
having an MBA impacted your career? Aside from providing me with a world class foundation of business knowledge, and connecting me with some of the smartest and most accomplished people I've ever met, gaining an MBA really helped me become fearless in my career.... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Fatou Bintou Sagnang
Fatou, “because I think that to jump to the next level, you need a broader perspective on how to move forward, one that anticipates what other stakeholders are thinking and is able to involve them. I think making that jump is probably the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
My HBS Journey
View Video As I find myself looking out the window, as the airplane leaves Boston behind, I realize just how special the MBA experience was at HBS. Before I came here I heard from a few people, "You probably won't learn that much... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation
through YPO, and now through a number of other initiatives, in getting people past this concept that they know everything about the other. We realized early on that probably the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
When he established an MBA student fellowship in 1979, William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) probably didn’t imagine the head count of student beneficiaries would eventually climb to 78—a number large enough to lose track of when asked about... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
to advertising can actually decrease the probability of a consumer choosing that product. This boosts the case for precision target marketing, which, though often controversial for perceived breaches of privacy, could be beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
math in my high school, she navigated a lot of bureaucracy so I could take classes at Georgia Tech. She said, “You can’t be an engineer and be done with math.” I’ve never, ever believed that any of my experiences have been for myself alone. If I can support... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
policies; leadership that unites and inspires; and respect for the Constitution and rights of all citizens. While this probably sounds familiar—and depressing— Gehl and Porter emphasize that it is entirely fixable. Their strategy for... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
interest, the subject of the current research, is probably the tertiary reason. "I am hesitant to say schools choose to invest in athletics just because of the spillover effect into academics," Chung says. Why would sports... View Details
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
ratings star added on a Yelp restaurant review translated to anywhere from a 5-percent to 9-percent effect on revenues. Local, independent restaurants were the most affected by reviews, probably because diners have little information... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
drugs, and will they be less expensive?' My answer is, 'I don't know, and probably not.' Lechleiter was one of several panelists to discuss, "Breaking the Genetic Code: The Business of Life Science in the 21st Century" at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jenny Tison
With her father serving as a Naval officer in Japan, Jenny Tison learned two important things about life, and herself, early on. “I learned to be an extrovert,” Jenny says, which probably helped with the second lesson. “It wasn’t easy... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
5 Facts About HBS Conferences
The conferences at HBS are entirely student-organized and there are a lot of them. An outsider attending one of the conferences would probably think that a full-time staff organized the event, but I can assure readers that students do... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up... View Details