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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to start their own nonprofit “is... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
raised $93,853 from 421 investors earlier this year largely by pitching the investment to its existing user base. “It’s hard to do due diligence on a private company,” says Hofmann. “If you’re a user you’re probably already convinced of... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
Technology has a way of seeping into our lives. On our first encounter with a microwave, an answering machine, an ATM, a cellular phone, or a video camera, each of these innovations probably seemed foreign, odd, perhaps unnecessary. But... View Details
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
had just come down, and I had expected the bags to be there when the first-class folks arrived. The standard would probably be that when first class arrives, have the bags there. Coach people came, no bags. Now we're all waiting, and it... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- Web
Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
teaching. So a friend of mine from high school was at Cornell, and through a friend of hers had heard of the Radcliffe Program. And so I probably heard about it that winter or spring of my senior year. So I applied to the HRPBA program.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
haven't seen people talking about the design that way. That's what we need to get to. If we had the workshop participants together for a week they'd probably come up with a pretty good design. So, if I were in a corporation I would be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
the medium term, to this government manipulation other than investor psychology? —Jim Daley (MBA 1986) KIRBY: Investor psychology probably is the biggest risk, but another is an overreliance on hard infrastructure investments (roads,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
that you probably need to rock your own boat again. Disrupt your life with a sabbatical. That doesn't mean you have to spend seven months walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide Trail. After being the first to do... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
6 Discoveries I Made About HBS
traditional business school fields. Let yourself enjoy that flexibility. 5. You’ll learn a lot about yourself and what you want to do with your life I realized that I would probably never be happy working 1) in a routine role or 2)... View Details
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup idea will work is impossible. Worse yet, a startup idea is a bet with an unknown View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
hands, and easily participate as if they were in the room, too. “This completely homegrown piece of the design is probably one of the most essential aspects of . . . [our] hybrid experience,” said Justin Fowler, an audiovisual design... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
examples of businesses that use Feng shui. Two high-profile users are the Hong Kong Bank, the largest and most successful bank in Hong Kong, and the Marks & Spencer stores, probably the most successful supermarket and department store... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
in Maryland and a reputation as power players inside the Beltway. Though collectively they've been dubbed "the Green Giants," Roberts says people would probably be surprised by the topics of their dinner-table conversations. "They're... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
probably not surprised at her subsequent headline-making ascent in corporate America. “I learned how to balance and prioritize early on,” says the Washington, D.C., native, whose unique combination of determination, grace, and integrity... View Details