Set Of Priors - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

veterans find personal and professional purpose after military service. In this three-part series, Phil Caruso discusses how to set career goals after the military, how to pursue a JD/MBA, and how to get the most out View Details

April 2025
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Setting a CEO Agenda: Ole Rosgaard at Greif

By: Krishna Palepu and Kerry Herman

Since taking over as CEO of industrial packaging giant Greif, Ole Rosgaard has focused on growing the company and improving the perception of its value by the capital markets. He and his senior leadership team have made inroads to this end, including adjusting the... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Valuation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Industrial Products Industry; North America; Europe

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December 2018 (Revised June 2019)
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Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble

Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a catering business, and various licensed products that run from cookware, to soup, to fast-casual restaurants. His businesses activities are divided among three separate... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Growth and Development; Management Systems; Business Processes; Leadership; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM Inc. (now part View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Setting the standards higher for safety and success

Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989), former CEO of Anglo American PLC, talks about the impact of her decision to make mining safety the company's highest goal. (Published April 2014) View Details

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What Sets Leadership Principles Apart from Other Courses?

01 Aug 2019
Video

Improving lives one data set at a time

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

packaging waste throughout the supply chain. With a wide range of opportunities available to the business as they expand, a Business Intelligence function was formed at Mori in 2021 with a critical mandate – build a robust system and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Apr 2000
News

HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June

Final plans are in place for the 2000 HBS Global Alumni Conference, to be held in Berlin, June 1316. Conference cochairmen Christoph-Matthias Brand (MBA '94) and Heiner Thorborg (12th ISMP) report that early registration is strong for the event, which will coincide... View Details

31 Mar 2022
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Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

packaging waste throughout the supply chain. With a wide range of opportunities available to the business as they expand, a Business Intelligence function was formed at Mori in 2021 with a critical mandate – build a robust system and... View Details

December 1988 (Revised November 1989)
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Provigo, Inc. (B): Issues Surrounding Target Setting and Use of Discretion in Performance Evaluations

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24 Apr 2014
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Responsibility to set a good example in the community

Paul E. Viera, Jr. (MBA 1985), CEO of Earnest Partners LLC, talks about the importance of setting a good example and the value of his HBS alumni... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation

Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), an America’s Cup–winning sailor and avid scuba diver, understands the importance of protecting marine ecosystems. The former owner and CEO of the pharmaceutical and... View Details

04 Sep 2013
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At Microsoft, Old Guard Sets Future for Next CEO

08 Apr 2015
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Why and how managers should help workers set boundaries

26 Jul 2021
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The Science of How You Spend Money & How to Set Boundaries People Will Respect

Article

Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon

By: Zachary Abel, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór and David Wood

We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem for every integer ℓ ≥ 2, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains ℓ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the “big line or big clique”... View Details

Keywords: Erdős-Szekeres Theorem; Happy End Problem; Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture; Empty Quadrilateral; Empty Pentagon; Empty Hexagon

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