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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
interest to me. Fortunately, I got in." HBS provided the frame of reference that Maddy was lacking. "I have applied quite a lot of what I learned to my career," she says. "For me, the discipline that the case-study methodology teaches has... View Details
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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership Lex Schroeder 19 Dec 2024 Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap Lex Schroeder Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
sons down to sleep. By that time it was 9:30 or 10 p.m. at night, and figuring out what one teenager was going to say to another teenager was the very last thing I wanted to do. Writing can make cleaning up toys look really attractive. So there was a bit of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
committed to a purpose or a mission; people who live by their values every day and who know the true north of their moral compass. They lead with the discipline and commitment to get great results for all their stakeholders: their... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
competing incentives in building the metaverse, our view is that the metaverse can still succeed,” they write, “but it might call for a shift in mindset and an openness to learning from seemingly distant domains of knowledge.” Along those lines, they invoked the View Details
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Outrage at the Death of a Tree - Blog - Business & Environment
gorgeous display of bonsai trees that I recall as I write this. What could more embody long-lasting natural capital than these miniature specimens, 100-400 year old paeans to artistry! As with all trees, it is their permanence that inspires and reassures, amidst other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
were all just impulse purchases," he says. "I like to begin things; that's my great weakness, I guess. It's always fun to start a project, but then you have to discipline yourself to finish." If the stunning photographs in Adventures with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
perhaps the most prestigious bad job in journalism." At HBS, Tumulty discovered that "the case method is the best kind of training in the mental discipline that a journalist needs, especially for covering politics, which is really all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
about innovation in his performance art? "When you teach innovation, you tell your students that the best practices can come from some of the most unlikely sources," Thomke says. In the following years, Thomke and Randal spent weeks discussing each other's View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars in a range... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
rater without debilitating the financial markets. This type of regulatory discipline might be valuable going forward, and may require having a fair number of ratings firms. Q: What's next for you? A: There are many fascinating questions... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
one’s affairs and household. Achieving work-life balance is not, therefore, a matter of containing how much one world intrudes on the other. It’s a matter of developing the discipline to apply a few simple principles and to implement them... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Artist Support | Baker Library
championed by Polaroid contributed in impactful ways to the acceptance of photography as a fine art form and to the emerging discipline of the history of photography. Bottles, test photograph by Nicholas Dean, Type 47, ca. 1961. Polaroid... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations face simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
With Intention. “We want consumers to sync what they are investing in with their financial assets, with education about decarbonization investment opportunities in their own homes and cars.” She continued, “My husband and I have been View Details
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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve... View Details