Filter Results:
(160)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(160)
- People (1)
- News (38)
- Research (90)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (39)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(160)
- People (1)
- News (38)
- Research (90)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (39)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
investors to be better risk managers—and that makes better investors in the long run. We already have the numbers, or the “what,” when we meet with a potential investment. We need to drill down to the “how” and “why.” Only a human can... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she attempts to View Details
- Profile
Rob Casper
you do learn to how drill down, how to gather the relevant facts, how to analyze them. It's not about how a thing is like a case, but how it's different. That's where I learn something new." For Rob, quiet success will be a... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
horizontal drilling and uses highly-pressurized water jets to force fossil fuels like oil and natural gas up from otherwise-unreachable rock beds. This new technology has enabled U.S. companies to access some of the estimated 36 billion... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
him to be his best, Price was captain of his high-school swim team, president of his fraternity at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a drill instructor in the Army. "I was always very goal-oriented and wanted to lead," he recalls.... View Details
- Profile
Funa Maduka
"where I can drill down into strategy or general management." In the long run, "I'm definitely going into the public sector, either nonprofit or government." View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
before forming Indivers, a holding company that included Europe's first independent maker of extrusion dies. When a fire forced him to rebuild his facility in 1966, he discovered that he could also use his new machines to drill precise... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Video: HBS Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial
has withstood the test of time. The case method enables students to learn to interpret and analyze information, consider alternatives, decide on a plan of action, and persuade others about their point of view. Students learn how to learn. To practice View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs
Business & Environment podcast Climate One Podcast Drilled Podcast Greentech media Energy Gang podcast Rankings Global 100 100 Best Corporate Citizens Newsweek American's Most Responsible Companies 2021 Global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
world-class facilities at the University of Kansas. I went from a 100-person hometown to a metropolis of 8 million. I went from shoveling mud for my family’s water well drilling business to working in private equity deals. But the day of... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
Anderson's collapse, he added: "Audit committees understand that they are in charge. There is now a much better focus on the complexity and risks of business and a real drilling into the issue of coziness [between auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- Profile
Viktor Puzakov
upstream side, exploration and production,” he says. Viktor was one of only seven Russian graduates selected for Schlumberger’s prestigious internship program, in which he got experience with offshore and on-land exploration. Subsequent roles brought him closer to the... View Details
- Profile
Laura Arjona
mind." As part of her scholarship, Laura fulfilled a summer internship with Baker Hughes Oil Tools, working on material design projects to improve drill attachments that screened out sand. "While I found the work interesting, it... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
classroom courses and many field-based learning opportunities. "The EC courses offer both breadth and depth, allowing students to drill deep into functional areas to develop expertise," says Professor Malcolm S. Salter, faculty chair for... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
4 Ways I've Changed at HBS
learning experience and connections with others more memorable and meaningful. On the second point, it became incredibly crucial to drill down and understand what my priorities were. Business school offers myriad opportunities, and most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
private equity universe is maturing, and in some cases firms are changing how they think about hiring,” says Lindsey Mead. “Every firm has its own set of attributes that it looks for; drilling down to understand the priorities of both... View Details
- Web
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog
will be placed on drilling down into the details and "fine print" of these and other issues. Topics covered in this finance course include Chapter 11 bankruptcy, out-of-court workouts, distressed exchange offers, "Section 363" asset... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
advanced capabilities, such as detection and response tools, in areas with the most sensitive data or the most risk to the organization’s mission. Once you’ve identified risk and placed controls in line with your prioritized assets, then you need to relentlessly test... View Details