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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
from a lab rather than a living animal, Alvarez believes consistency—not the myriad environmental or safety benefits of replacing factory farming—may become the main reason consumers adopt it. Once a lab-grown hamburger is perfected,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
popular in the 1950s and ’60s as a way of sifting through bulging applicant pools. After researchers questioned its reliability, testing fell out of use in favor of personal interviews. Now, with the emergence of big data, machine testing has come back in sophisticated... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge where all firms pretend to be kind and refrain from charging "abusive" prices to their customers. Our main result is that, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the key role of U.S. business in ensuring our country’s economic recovery. Daniel H. Taft (AMP 88, 1982) Arlington, VA Wall St. vs. Main St. In the Anglo-Saxon/American capitalistic order, there are two important aspects of market... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the terrifying two-note pattern of the movie’s View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
minimal viable product (MVP) for our mental health startup idea, and to achieve that, I decided to level up my technical skills through an intensive coding program for three main reasons: 1. Entrepreneurial empowerment 2. Future of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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B2B Sales and Distribution - Course Catalog
Objectives: This course is designed for students who would like to gain an understanding of the complexity of managing large sales and go-to-market organizations. There are three main themes to the class – people, go-to-market strategy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
institutions, Frei, Evenson, and Harker created a model demonstrating precise links between three main elements (or "drivers") of superior service delivery: effective people, effective internal processes, and effective information... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Last Look
’84) was the main writer of the lyrics to that song.” Anderson espies Joel Manby (MBA ’85) on the far right side, and Lomas believes “the woman second from the right is Margo Steinberg (MBA ’85), who later became an actress on stage in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
made the School great even as we have the courage to change,” he noted. (He elaborates on this commitment to tradition in the Q&A.) In short, Nohria sees two main objectives on the path ahead: innovate to thrive and prosper while... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Seeing Everyday as a New Adventure: Reflections for Father's Day
in 3 words. Humbling. Learning. Fun. What was it like being a father/dad as an HBS student? We had the best time as a family at HBS! Our third son was born a few months before I started as a student at HBS. We lived in a great three-bedroom apartment on campus with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
researchers found that companies with a strong purpose came in two main forms: those with high camaraderie among its employees, and those with high clarity from management about worker expectations and future plans. This latter group saw... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
The main characters of F.X. Biasi Jr.’s (PMD 41, 1981) first epic, The Brother-in-Law, were too old to star in an ongoing adventure series. So in Biasi’s later thrillers, the mantle is passed on to a son, Navy SEAL Bruce Tanner—“the... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Whitney Wilson
could have more impact. What I’m trying to figure out at business school is where to make that impact.” “One of the main reasons I chose HBS is the case method. I sat in on a class and was just really impressed by the diversity of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
control. They also control health funding deficits by encouraging, or even requiring, their main populations to aggressively set aside medical savings during their earning years to help with older age health care. Such actions are much... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Discovering a new organization and state as an intern
will be a nice change from sitting in class each day, and I’m curious to see how different it is from my previous job. I imagine the main difference will be the financial impact of any given project. Given Walmart’s scale, I expect to be... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Finding a Time Series of Financial Data in Compustat | Baker Library
General Electric , into search box; click Starts with Copy and paste the company's GVKEY back into the Company Codes box on the main WRDS search page Enter multiple codes by leaving a single space between them Leave all other boxes in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Former President, Yahoo! Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.S., Computer Science and Economics, Tufts University, 1984 On Leadership: “Great leaders don’t limit the actions of their followers; rather... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
self-interest rather than in the interests of the whole. Thus, the decentralized organization must also develop new control systems. Jensen asserts that there are three main elements in an organization's total strategy: competitive,... View Details