Subjectivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

infusions. These delivery methods can be painful, time consuming, and costly. It was a subject of great interest to Goble who, prior to HBS, had been involved in bringing injectable biologics to market at Eli Lilly. From that meeting in... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

enjoyed getting to know my classmates, who are now some of my closest friends. Our intense conversations on a variety of subjects that I never even thought of before HBS were some of the most intellectually stimulating experiences I had... View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

weren’t evaluating merely what was written on paper. “They were looking at him and applying subjective character tests. Do you look trustworthy? Do you fit the image in my mind of a successful businessperson?” The solution, Ballard... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

"When, for instance, a professor asked how a manager in a case should deal with the issue of a defective product, I had absolutely no clue. The only way I got through the program was to prioritize and really try to shine in the subjects I... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

Secretary's Leadership Seminar. “The State Department has operations in virtually every country in the world, and we have to manage very large enterprises that are subject to the same sort of constraints and rules that any large... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

less product, especially with indulgence items. MacKay: The products we’re talking about are also sold in fairly competitive outlets, so you have a lot of inter-brand competition. To John’s earlier point on Dannon and Yoplait, you’re View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

Lemann Foundation have proposed to improve the quality of Brazilian education at all levels," said Lemann Foundation CEO Denis Mizne. "This gift is in harmony with that strategy, which aims to develop programs in a wide variety of View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

player named Carlos Gonzalez (MBA '98). They were married in Turkey in 1999. Finding Reason in the Irrational The year before she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in business economics, Ulrike Malmendier was immersed in the history of Roman law, a View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need for climate adaptation (the... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

his pepper mill of noir. When MacDonald died in 1986 from complications following heart surgery, a distinctive American voice was silenced, and the torrent of words, opinions, columns, stories, and books, an output embracing all manner of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal

in the United States. Those profits are now subject to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, but the tax can be totally avoided as long as American corporations hold the profits in their accounts at foreign banks. The current system needs... View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

01 Jun 2015
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@Soldiers Field

Photo courtesy @chiaraferragni Case study subject Chiara Ferragni—the fashion designer/blogger best known as The Blonde Salad—took a break from New York Fashion Week to visit HBS professor Anat Keinan’s new Luxury Marketing elective.... View Details

25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission

filled with educational endeavors, most of which involve getting kids of all ages excited about STEM subjects and entrepreneurship. Earls has led an unlikely, if inspiring, life considering his roots. He grew up in the Virginia Tidewater... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; NASA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2006
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Gift of Gab

then delivered a prepared talk on a topic of their choice. Subjects ranged from the pharmaceutical industry to the relative merits of cats vs. dogs, while Kim’s presentation took a humorous yet thoughtful approach to lessons learned in... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2005
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GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard

his 23 years at GE, where he began his career as a sales manager in the plastics division. When all is said and done, Immelt declared, “This degree you have, this thing called an MBA, is a little bit about the subject matter. But it’s... View Details