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Eva Cai | MBA

venture at the iLab, I learned how patient experiences and cross-disciplinary collaborations can transform technical solutions. I am motivated to understand the business aspect of medical engineering solutions to optimize patient... View Details

Career Coach

Nicola Pugliese

optimally communicating a career narrative and personal brand, through written collateral (resumes, LinkedIn profiles, cover letters), interviewing and networking. Work Experience: Gillette/P&G Ð Global Consumer Product Marketing,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

in individual information processing steps of the S&OP process, a tradeoff which to our knowledge has not been highlighted in the supply chain management literature. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2019
News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

engine that ensures an optimal fit down to the level of soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed that the 25,000 small IT... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer

Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and over View Details

Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt

25 Apr 2014
News

In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership

habits of young, upscale consumers. He says his team was struck by "the incredible contrast between emerging-market mayhem and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with persistent poverty and corruption.... View Details

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

Portrait Project

Justin Ernest

my hope that by raising my hand in an Aldrich classroom, I am promoting awareness for stutterers everywhere. Setting an example for others to follow. Giving them optimism for the future. I am speaking out – because I can. View Details

Portrait Project

Jen Wu

Those earmarked “sleep” were the easiest to redistribute, and any once allocated to introspection had long been dismissed as an indulgence. It never occurred to me, during this Tetris game of time allocation, that I could change time itself. For the past twenty months,... View Details

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Isaac Robinson | MBA

modern society. Whether that means using graphs to optimize meeting scheduling, auctions to estimate how a product will be received by the public, or fair allocation rules to determine funding for local schools, the course showed me that... View Details

Jan 2014
Case

Rail Transportation in the United States

BNSF, CSX, and Norfolk Southern. Today, by most measures, freight rail is doing better than ever, while passenger rail faces significant challenges—though it is clear that numerous pain points and bottlenecks interfere with optimal use of... View Details

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Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America

It is often said that "Washington is broken," but this reflects a common misunderstanding of the problem. Washington isn't broken--it is delivering exactly what its currently designed to deliver. The problem is that our political system is no longer designed to serve... View Details

06 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

Decarbonization and Sustainable Production, our group visited Van den Ende Rozen, a family business located in Monster, near The Hague and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The company leverages greenhouse technology and digitalization to View Details

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Fabrizio Serafini | MBA

experiences that fueled my interest in the intersection of technology and business. While working to optimize production processes for a chemical group that produces biofuels, I learned firsthand the tremendous power technology holds in... View Details

21 Aug 2019
News

Analyzing Homelessness

his company relocated to a site near a shelter and soup kitchen on the city’s west side, where many Cicero employees volunteer or work pro bono on strategy development. He finds cause for optimism in his work with city and state task... View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

A Side of Data with Your Dinner

also makes it a dangerous time to be a restaurateur.” The danger is the diners’ high expectations amid ever-increasing competition for their dollars. “More than ever, technology must play a critical role in helping a restaurateur optimize... View Details

Portrait Project

Myoung Cha

To be changed by the world around me. Many people come to HBS to "change the world." I was one of those people. But I have come to realize that it is HBS that has changed me. I have learned how to optimize a cranberry factory,... View Details

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

need someone like that because, while the Center for Disease Control has fantastic scientists, management has never been their main skill set. “The goal should be to optimize to mitigate catastrophes while managing routine concerns... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

(MBA 2023) - Lasso optimizes electrochemical carbon removal by building a drug discovery platform, but for the climate - through computational chemistry, electrolyte design, and cell engineering, Lasso will make direct air capture truly... View Details

21 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 21

Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources Authors:Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future... View Details