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- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
execute some of our community-building goals because of COVID-19. We planned to have a full in-person retreat, but that wasn't possible. We're still working to adapt our social programming to the hybrid format. We were slow to make the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
biggest barrier—and this sounds crazy—is the lack of a billing code for contingency management.” A participant who remains substance-free and follows a treatment plan can earn up to $100 a month (up to $599 per year) for making healthy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised the investment world by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
considered selling your company?’ He replied, ‘Well, no, not until just now.’ Within days, I had an option to buy it.” Upon hearing this oft-told story, many people evidently have marveled aloud at how “lucky” Rogers was to be at the View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
know those squares meant to helpfully highlight correlation? They show that data points in the lower left box are typically at the opposite end of a recognizable pattern from those in the upper right box. Well, Frances lives for the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While these plans aim to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
are often natural and subconscious individual behaviors, making it easier for a person to make the right choice. The 2008 book Nudge, written by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, piqued their interest. (The book also inspired the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
beaches in San Diego that's where I live right now, or when I'm on the treadmill without any distractions of electronic media—just talking to myself. Scott Kabat: Scott Kabat, 1999. I do my best thinking away from work. I think I usually... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get there first and get it View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy—focusing on fit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
(His long-term plan puts Faction brand sales somewhere in the middle of that first band of revenues.) User experience plays a key role in differentiating Faction’s product, with communication feeding directly into product design and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management - Course Catalog
taking the business to the next level, including a plan for funding, and a plan and timeline for reaching scale. Give and receive feedback from other highly motivated student teams. Meet frequently as a team... View Details
- Profile
Maliha Khan
well: She was young and the only female manager out of 3,500 employees, making it difficult for her to be taken seriously. Changing course in order to lead Maliha's initial plans for a literacy program met stiff resistance. "My... View Details
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
going into science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
something in the technology field. A mutual friend put me in touch with Josh, who was looking for a cofounder. We met in New York and decided right away to partner on this (we actually had to move fast, since I had a job offer expiring... View Details
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John Speer
intensity. Right then, I knew: this is where I had to be.” Now that he’s in the school, John acknowledges that the case-study method is not easy. “It’s less hard to do it for a few days,” he says, “but when it’s weeks on end – you feel... View Details
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A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
was doing the right thing by trying to build something from scratch, but winning the Pitch helped me see that I was carrying a ‘big idea’ that resonated broadly and that this was what I had to do.” Moving forward with Global Citizen Year,... View Details
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
investing in smaller businesses. Educational Objectives The course focuses on how to manage smaller businesses with an emphasis on the financial aspects of buying and growing these businesses. The cases are designed to give students practical knowledge that will be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
him to do so, and the more she answered his questions and talked about her money, the more she straightened up in her chair and the more confident she became. It was wonderful to see — a moment of empowerment happening right there. Now... View Details