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- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
it cheaper for startups to stand up an enterprise. One result: VCs could suddenly fund more companies. Apple and Amazon Are ’Frenemies’ When It Comes To eReaders Why sometimes it's better for fierce competitors like Apple and Amazon to work together. Amazon Prime... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
close the finance gap, Krantz dove directly into the industry instead of learning it from the outside. She spent three years in fixed income sales and trading learning new things every day and getting a... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
negotiation exercise draws on and illustrates the "3-D Negotiation" logic of Lax and Sebenius. Purchase the exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908033 The Elcer Products Transaction:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Allen Yang
world. Business school seemed like a logical choice." Accepted in his senior year through what is now called the 2+2 Program, Allen garnered a few years of required work experience before matriculating at HBS. He worked in investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special. In a word, they had grit.” Recommended by Health care executive Daniel Bowles (MBA/MPP 2015) Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz Voss on lessons View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
him to study full-time, Louise proposed that HBS would be the logical choice. “HBS gave me a broader perspective and taught me to think differently,” says Wulff. “It stressed looking at the whole picture and taking leadership... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jason Sanders
"In medicine, you're treated as an individual expert; you're expected to address every issue one-on-one," Jason says. "But in business school, the individual can't be prepared alone. The learning all happens in real time,... View Details
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Aaron Chadbourne
styles Aaron believes that professors "teach very differently at each school. The Law School emphasizes logic and has forced me to examine the way I reach conclusions. HBS is more creative – there's more freedom to explore ideas... View Details
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Julia Siegel
away in a conference room prepared to have my reality checked. When I saw “The Answer is Yes!” as soon as I opened the letter, I stood there in shock, mouth agape. The only logical next step was to call my parents. The excitement and joy... View Details
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Ravi Belani
out of my environment – get out of the Valley – so that I could reflect on what I had learned and on where I wanted to go.” Harvard’s large class sizes were also attractive. “The beautiful thing about HBS is that because of its size and... View Details
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Cristiana Torres
nonprofit consulting firm, FEP Junior Consulting, while she was still in school. "It was an escape from the very theoretical learning system that you have in Portugal," says Cristiana, "and a way to start having a true... View Details
- 19 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections From My First Month at HBS
communication. As someone who is fairly logical and data-driven, I find myself grappling with this idea of authenticity. It’s a new feeling, and I’m still learning how to embrace it. Here’s a question from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) was in her early 30s when she grew curious about her chances of having children one day. “I didn’t want to wake up and learn that my opportunity had passed,” says Tariyal, then a genomics researcher with a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
the firm and the open logic of the market. To successfully employ this model, firms must learn to shepherd communities, leverage them without exploiting them, and share intellectual property rights. Last... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Rawiah Abdallah
development efforts in the future." After graduation, Rawiah assumed ever-greater responsibilities in a sequence of jobs at Raya Holding, LOGIC Management Consulting, and the Dubai office of Boston Consulting Group. Power of stories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
products it invents and designs to others. Nothing could be further from the truth. This logic is predicated on utterly false assumptions about the divisibility of R&D and manufacturing and basic competitive dynamics. Yes, there are some... View Details
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Larry Braithwaite
"entrepreneurship and urban development, exploring the intersection between business and mission-oriented work." Recognizing the need for credible business experience, he spent three years with a major Wall Street firm and another three years at a real-estate... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
the number of active borrowers plummeted, and the profit margin dropped, too. "They basically had to deal with conflict that became intractable," Battilana says. Los Andes's launch in 1995 came three years after that of BancoSol's, meaning that Los Andes would View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel