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Bridgette Slater

part of the HBS community is like... ...bungee jumping. If you decide to make a bold move or take a risk, you may feel yourself in free fall at first, but you also feel confident taking that massive leap of faith because of your belief in... View Details

06 Feb 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

and professors who come from extremely different backgrounds has been the best part of my HBS experience. The case method fosters open discussion, so I'm constantly exposed to different opinions and perspectives on business problems in the real world that I hadn't... View Details

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Magashe Ngoepe

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? Under COVID, the world is full of uncertainty. The MBA helped place certainty into my life and compelled me to pause and reflect on new paths and opportunities for the future. I got... View Details

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. In this paper we investigate whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

attempts at managing these ”strategic paradoxes” fail because they’re not managed carefully and consistently. (It’s easy to write a great purpose statement or to dream up a new business model but way more difficult to follow through when it’s time to View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

mock-ups of each piece of equipment placed on casters so that they could be moved easily. The learning process included elements of both competition and cooperation to ensure that Cardboard City produced a wide range of possible layouts... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

Read Part 1 of Military Transition and the JD/MBA How to Think About the JD/MBA The military is an extremely hierarchical environment where professional credibility is literally worn on a person’s chest and sleeves. That makes... View Details

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

their competition. “After 50 customers have signed on,” Lal says, “the 51st customer will ask, how can I make this work for me too?” As for IoT’s place on Gartner’s hype cycle, the firm says look for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Jones says, in seeing their sustainable goals survive the second generation of ownership. Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard is hoping to be an exception—as he often is. As a young rock climber in the 1950s, he bought an anvil from a junkyard and taught himself blacksmithing.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-outs, overstock, and discounting.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is essential to understanding his development as a manager. Until 1945, anti-Semitism placed... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

online shoppers, fulfilling Hagiu and Wright's definition. Amazon's e-commerce website encompasses multiple models, which place it somewhere along the MSP-reseller continuum. Amazon.com is a pure MSP when it offers products that are sold... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

Kaiser [Permanente's] Dr. [Kim] Adcock, it is not enough just to know that a particular physician is making more than the acceptable number of errors [in misread x-rays]. Unless deeper analysis of the nature of the radiologists' errors is... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

effectiveness is measured. This forces the FDA to make ad hoc rules for the testing of each new device in order to properly gauge safety and effectiveness. When Stern looked more closely at the numbers, however, she discovered a curious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

underestimated factor in industrial or business marketing is buyer behavior.— Narakesari Narayandas "So you get in, and then if you do things right, what happens for the business? The customer calls you and wants to place an order.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

which makes it difficult for organizations to sponsor a foreign worker who is not already in the United States. Eligibility Must have at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent Offered position must require a bachelor’s degree in a... View Details

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Ignacio Lartirigoyen

After applying his skills at ExxonMobil – "a very exciting time because of the company's size and its level of professionalism"– Ignacio moved to an agribusiness closer to his roots, Adecoagro, where he joined the planning team responsible for View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

programs has gone far beyond the marketing department to infuse everything the museum does, making it unique among its peers, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School. The Magic Tate Ball... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

for outstanding senior Black and URM faculty and scholars of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality; and making HBS a particularly attractive place for diverse faculty to do their best work. Toward these... View Details

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