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- 20 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
Create Buzzworthy Industry Education Events at HBS
people who MBA students can relate to and who want to connect with HBS students. Best of luck with your Industry Education Events. And be in touch with our office if we can help your marketing and recruiting efforts at HBS in any way.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
because luck prevails. Piketty (1995) had shown that a similar pattern could arise from standard preferences if initial beliefs about the relative importance of effort and luck in generating income differed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018
are plenty of students looking for all types of organizations; the best matches are made when everyone is being honest about what they have to offer. Best of luck in the year ahead! View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA | MBA
confidently say students are making a smart and valuable investment in their future, and where there are plenty of people available to guide you along the way. I wish you the best of luck as you advance your education and your career. You... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting
and a healthy dose of luck led me to corporate strategy at Capital One after college and to management consulting with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) this summer. Most of us are at HBS at least partially because we're trying to figure... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
early-stage information technology companies. "We had some good luck early on, and that made it easier to raise subsequent funds," says the humble New Jersey native, a Princeton graduate who, along with his wife, Lynn, is raising their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
hurtful choices. They’re all turning points, and hopefully we learn from them and acquire some humility about how lucky we are in every way, even if the luck is sometimes bad. I have immense respect for the wide variety of ways in which... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Gillette prior to attending HBS, and is known for bringing a business-centric focus to the conservation movement. He credits a taste for entrepreneurship developed in b-school and a bit of luck for his change in career paths. In the late... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
right funds to follow. Since distinguishing ability from luck in investing is always a challenge, that last requirement may not be so easy to fulfill. Q: Do you think the Web-based data input accounting standards such as XBRL would affect... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
take initiative is in the top 5% of analysts I have ever worked with now that’s what makes you stand out”. I reached out to my recommenders 3-4 months before deadlines, informing them why I wanted them specifically to write my recommendations and provided a one page... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
Phil Caruso, JD/MBA '19, has served as a U.S. Air Force officer for seven years on active duty and four years in the reserve. He continues to pay his luck forward as a Co-Director of the Harvard Veterans Organization and as the Corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
What that means in China is that if I have to build a road and there are homes in the way, the people in the homes are out of luck. Whereas in India, the government is out of luck because the homeowners will go all the way to the Supreme... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
great school, period.However, my luck in choosing Kansas doesn’t mean my time as a collegiate student-athlete was easy. Far from it. Did you know that the average Division I athlete spends nearly 40 hours per week on athletic commitments?... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
thus does not disturb current motivation,” the researchers write. “For high-performing salespeople, because they are more immune to the disutility of effort, even if they experienced bad luck earlier in the month, they would put in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Henry Ellis added that wWhile Google is massive and profitable, "they have one product that makes all the money the primary key to their success is patience, determination, and luck, with luck being the spark." Questions about... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
have gained some weight, lost some hair, seen the world take giant leaps forward and a few steps back. Many of us would never be remotely near where we are today had we not lucked into the HBS imprimatur and network of connections (not to... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
fastest crew is the most efficient at moving through the water—but not necessarily the strongest.” Dream denied: “Due to a mixture of bad luck and politics, our crew didn’t get to go to the Olympics. That was a very tough moment. What... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
know? In other words, so much has been written about Jack Welch in subsequent years about what a hard-ass he was and things like that. But he actually was really I thought it was challenging in a fun way. You know? Luck matters, right, in... View Details