probability - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

children from Pakistan. It's probably one of the nicest things anyone could have done to repair Indo-Pak relations and reduce the possibility of nuclear war. He has done it beautifully. He has a colleague stationed at the border, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 May 2015
News

A Flash of Insight

probably the most creative specialty, in that people arrive completely undifferentiated, without a diagnosis. Your job is to save life and limb, and come up with a diagnosis quickly. You have to do this with many patients, simultaneously.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

an aircraft carrier, meeting with the King, police escorts when I travel. But you get used to that — well, maybe not the aircraft carrier. Security is tight, but any freedom of movement I have to give up is a small price to pay for the opportunity to serve the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

handling, storage, and protection of data and infrastructure configurations. It’s also important to establish crisis management procedures, responses, and responsibilities in the event of an attack. Despite the mounting danger posed by cyber attacks, most managers... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

my employer to know all these things? That to me is in a whole different class of information. Kenny: Let's talk a little bit about Facebook's leadership model. You've got Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO. He's got Sheryl Sandberg. They're View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

07 Mar 2019
News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

to provide them properly in the United States.” Reflecting on the Owner/President Management program that he attended at HBS, Benitez said: “One of the things that probably any OPMer in the world is going to be able to share with you is... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that bought soap. I’m View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 May 2011
News

Man with a Plan

News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably... View Details

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

innovating managers will instead segment their markets by the different jobs that customers might use their products for, their probability of success will be much higher. Understanding the job is much more important than understanding... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

01 Dec 1996
News

25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference

opportunities of operating as general managers in the emerging global marketplace and to examine the continuing obstacles we face as a group in gaining access to capital for startup endeavors. "The AASU annual career conferences are View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Baker’s Man of Steel

library is slated to reopen in fall 2005. Meanwhile, Delaney, an employee of Marr Companies and a member of Local 4 Operators Union, will move on to an as-yet undetermined project. Even if he knew where, he probably wouldn’t say. View Details

Keywords: Baker Library; Bobby Delaney; crane; operator; Construction of Buildings; Construction

25 Aug 2010
News

Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

competitive nature of HBS. Most endearing are the thank-you celebrations of professors during the last class, several of which are on YouTube. For a professor’s method of handling pranks, see MBA 1984-6A. HBS administrators probably... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

highly attractive host economy over the following decade. There are major acquisition opportunities in, for example, the fragmented U.S. banking sector, and the probable further weakening of the dollar over the medium term will make U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

mastery" goals probably lead to better effects than strict "performance" goals. Good people with the best of intentions can focus so much on a stretch goal that they fail to recognize how it leads to unethical behavior and/or excessive... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

Summing Up Krishnamurthy suggested that a return of mercantilism is not a threat, and that "the present dilemma is probably an aberration that will taper off in due course." Alejandro Ocana stated bluntly, "Global... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

you don’t get to do very much.” Number of work trips Down Under: 62 and counting. “When you think about it—and it’s probably best not to—I’ve spent about four months of my life on a plane to Australia.” That nickname: “I don’t think I’m a... View Details