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- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
goals has different effects on performance. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 23 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in a structured, quality-improvement program. We test the relationship between collaboration within the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
catalog and specialty clothing retailer. Highlights the issues involved in financing such a transaction, and then focuses on the operational challenges of turning around the business, and of TPG's intensive involvement in the running of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
or at least step back from their intensive careers and for most, the timing coincides with the period when they're just getting to the top in their careers. Women are far more likely than men to make this choice, partly because of the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
women into a 18 month program. They give them intense therapy. And then they also go through training classes. So they learn basics like business skills, how to write a resumé. They get apprenticeships with local companies. WIR has... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
intensive exposure to case studies and their particular methodology) “Predicting the past with ever-increasing accuracy.” TGMP 5 does, in fact, have a motto that bonds us. It's “Keep Smiling,” which resulted from the final morning of... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
type of system is not new to the financial services field." And Kim Osorio reminds us, "Within my field of human resources we already have a certification program... ." Will recent events lead to a more intense debate, as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. It was therefore View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
with an intensive multi-session program that includes instruction on financial modeling, research, and on-campus stock pitch presentations to investment firms. Through a lottery system, a number of the Winternship students also... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
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Phillip Michael Strazzulla
another job in three months if this doesn’t work.’ If you do, you won’t have the urgency to keep going because each day is really hard. I’m just very thankful for an opportunity to start a company. This is the most challenged I’ve ever been. There are View Details
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Mr. Land's intense interest in scientific research and his conviction that it could be profitably conducted by a small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
endeavors can tell you, this is an intense process, and one that requires investment on many levels. JH: Keeping our leadership position in business education is critical. I believe that an investment in the School is ultimately an... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
experience in the category, especially considering new investors often take board seats. “When large amounts of capital come into play, the pressure on founders can be quite intense and it’s important to have the right support systems in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
Moral Leader is not likely to help students run numbers or do brand management when they leave HBS, he admitted. But intense discussions about the often-conflicting demands of leadership do leave a mark. As Badaracco said to the alumni,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
first month in the joint degree program. As a continuation of her post, here are 5 things on my mind, as we embark on Year 2. 1. Summer: an opportunity to explore your interests. One of my favorite things about the joint degree program is that despite the View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
last fifteen years, entrepreneurship is "the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled." Given the dynamic forces at work in today's economy and the intensity of worldwide competition, the lessons of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
utilitarian motivations that differs from case to case. As Figure 2 below shows, any kind of motivation, or combination of them, can trigger a sustainable partnership as long as it is intense. When the intensity is lacking, depicted as... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions differ in terms of the amount of uncertainty in identifying candidates qualified for the job, in the intensity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne