probability - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

founder of Napster, would probably agree with the assertion. While Harlan Cleveland foresaw the dimensions of the Information Economy, what he may have underestimated was the ease with which information, proprietary or not, could be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

loans. Did you have any anxiety or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? I had confidence in my post-MBA earning potential. So for me, any anxiety was probably around deciding to... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

Entrepreneurs In her role as a senior analyst with Bessemer Venture Partners prior to attending HBS, Anna Khan (MBA 2016) heard pitches from thousands of entrepreneurs. “Of that number, probably only 10 to 20 were women. It wasn’t that we... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

and probably hungrier. Our independence has eliminated the strategic conflicts that we faced in trying to sell networking solutions to AT&T's competitors. That's no longer an issue, and the entire market is open to us. How rapidly do you... View Details

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

because how do you tap into something that comes from who knows where? If I'm a media company like WPP Group and I'm dealing with a major account, I would probably want to put a measurable amount of that account into an event or a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

opposed to merely setting direction. I probably should emphasize that leading from behind is not about abrogating responsibility. After all, the shepherd makes sure that the flock stays together. He uses his staff to nudge and prod if the... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

cost? Yes, it probably would be worth it, she says. Should Hollywood sue Bollywood production houses to fight plagiarism? This bet can be a lost cause for American studios. After showing a couple of scenes of the Bollywood version of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

incentives to invent the research inputs in the first place. We study the effects of increases in the number of required inputs on innovation activity and optimal patent policy. We find that the probability of introducing the final... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the pack through good service, she... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

probably represents about 2 percent of all companies—and these are way ahead of the curve. The idea was to get a glimpse at the most aggressive, leading-edge uses of technology and to get the longest experience that I could in some of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Dec 2024
News

Back at the Ranch

The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.” What her parents View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

that to happen. MK: I don't think that we as a world probably can afford to wait to deploy DAC or other carbon removal technology. At this point I think we need to try anything, even if it's not necessarily the best technology. DM: I'm... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

unique to India before iTrust launched. “It would have saved a lot of time and emotional energy,” he writes. The Upside of the Economic Downturn Given a choice, Agarwala and Varma probably would have kept their day jobs had they foreseen... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

stakeholders, including the patients these charities are ostensibly designed to help,” the paper says. You Might Also Like: Can Amazon Remake Health Care? Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize Lessons from COVID-19: The... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

it is in the United States." This is just the latest of several studies that all point roughly in the same direction. How then, do we explain the predominant view that we must avoid fostering financial institutions that are too big to fail? Is there a high View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

James Surowiecki) he may have influenced. In his book, Jacobs begins by asserting that, because each of us harbors our own perceptions of reality, "It turns out that most of what we thought we knew about management is probably... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

Dilip Soman Abstract Decision researchers have long been interested in behaviors that deviate from rational choice. Of these, the compromise effect has received considerable attention, with it repeatedly shown that the probability of... View Details