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25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided tour inside American health care... View Details

04 Dec 2020
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Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony

concert. Our first show of the academic year just took place On December 2nd via YouTube livestream. Putting together a virtual concert actually required more work on all members. Each of us learned how to use an View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff

percent where that change is occurring." Related Article e-Commerce in Brazil: A Look at olook André Beisert (MBA 2009), CEO of São Paulo–based women's online fashion retailer olook, sees the impact of a new consumer class in both his... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2018
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Turning Point: Power Outlet

psychologically, so much so that it was hard to get out of bed. Eventually, I did get up to make breakfast. As I was scrambling eggs and cooking turkey sausage, I decided to activate an idea I’d had for a while—something I’d described to others as an View Details

13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Managing Errors in Organizations The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin Abstract—Despite discussion in the management literature about agile organizations or View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

we’re selling them Coke Zero, Jettas, and GTIs. We’ve grown up with them, and that experience gave us a leg up on the learning curve about this cohort’s acceptance of the Internet, instant messaging, and many other technologies. That... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

20 May 2025
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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value

a summer internship, even though the company had never hosted an MBA intern before. From Inspiration to Initiative Jessica reached out directly to the company, proposing a way she could contribute. “I actually guessed the founder’s email using an View Details

21 May 2025
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Mentorship in Action: When an HBS Student Proposes a Project

never hosted an MBA intern before. From Inspiration to Initiative Jessica reached out directly to the company, proposing a way she could contribute. “I actually guessed the founder’s email using an online email verifier,” she said.... View Details

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15602 PublicationsSeven Lessons for Leading in Crisis Author:Bill George Publication:Warren Bennis Series. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2009 Abstract Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis outlines the seven critical lessons leaders... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation

Neeley hopes her book—along with recent Harvard Business Review articles, academic articles, cases, an online learning global collaboration simulation, and insights she shares as a professor in the MBA and... View Details

11 Oct 2017
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Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

interns. “It’s a benefit to students to learn on the ground, and a benefit to us to get quality talent,” she says. “We’re always thinking about where they can add tangible value over a short period of time.” EquaLife’s most recent intern,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

strategy is developed. The Lifelong Learning Committee is chaired by Richard Decker (98th AMP). Recognizing that one's education doesn't end with graduation from HBS, this committee will address the numerous ways alumni can extend and... View Details

Profile

Patrick Chun

engrossed," Patrick says, "with the idea that strategic thinking and business had such a global impact, and where the world is going." Eager to learn more about "how strategy moves," Patrick spent two years with... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Case Study: Let’s Dance

method teaching and learning She and Mike Kamowski, a software engineer at Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster, started to build out a top-of-the-funnel solution for the dance community in 2018. Bopsidy launched the following year as an View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

tolerance, can have substantial welfare costs. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13966 I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Harvard Business School Case 317-051 Connections Education: Shifting the Paradigm? The online virtual learning (K-12) industry in 2017 remains an industry moving fast with many different players and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

addition, we explore possible second-order effects, examining whether “liking” brands might cause consumers’ friends to view that brand more favorably. When consumers see that a friend has “liked” a brand, they are less likely to buy the brand relative to a more... View Details