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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
and ambiguity, in cases and in real life, and you can never be quite sure what is going on. At some point you simply have to cut through the ambiguity and say, “I know enough. I’ve got to make a decision. I don’t know if it is right or... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
restructuring that left the Panigoros with a 34.1 percent equity stake in Medco. Two other large shareholders are now looking to sell their combined stake of 50.9 percent, and have selected Temasek, the Singapore government's investment arm, as their preferred bidder.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
political actors, creating and shaping domestic and international politics rather than simply reacting to the decisions of policy-makers. Intellectually, the focus is on achieving a deep understanding of the incentives, constraints, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rates or the minimum wage, reflect the public’s efforts to find the right balance between these competing arguments. That may not be pretty, but it makes me hopeful. How do people make decisions about these... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
Goldshlager’s opinion was based on a misunderstanding about the best cases. As she put it, “a great discussion case does not ‘illustrate best practices’—it presents a decision maker facing a complex challenge for which there is no one... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
of his childhood. A classmate introduced Westphal to a friend in VC in Brazil and immediately, the VC partner knew the right person to introduce him to, Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999), founder of Facily. A Non-Linear Path to Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
be difficult, especially in the face of an entrenched duopoly. The transformation requires smart decisions and sustained effort from multiple actors across multiple states, each with its own unique history, political climate, party... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Maren Quezada
see the MBA as a way to learn how to effectively manage change, and how to build a talent pipeline for an organization that’s also representative of our communities, especially in LA.” Maren attended the HBS Latino Student Organization (LASO) conference in 2018,... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/new_publications/papers/amabile/Challenges_of_Person-Centric%20Work_Psych_Amabile.pdf Perceiving Freedom Givers: Effects of Granting Decision Latitude on Personality and Leadership Perceptions Authors:Roy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
examine what causes these processes to occasionally lose momentum. EE: What are some other highlights of the next session of BCAO? Upton: Participants will learn which decisions have to be made when developing an improvement strategy and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
affords them greater control over service quality and customer experience, in return for which they accept the added costs of being employers. Hornet's nest The decision by some marketplaces-for-services to treat their workers as... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
International: The Second Act Harvard Business School Case 209-110 Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
some skepticism when potential backers realized she was a woman, Chase didn't let that faze her. "I always made it a point to fall back on skill and hard work. When they realized I knew the business inside and out, it ceased to be an issue." "My asset... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills
Prior to HBS, I was working at American Express first in the CEO’s internal strategy group and then in Membership Rewards for the Centurion and Platinum team. While the training and development during those four years was phenomenal I knew that the View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2021
of the Latin America Research Center (LARC), is about a difficult personnel decision Bruck, a rising star in the Argentina-based Amazon rival, faced. In 2017, as corporate sales director at MercadoLibre, she managed a smart and dedicated... View Details
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Africa - Global Activities 2020
Growing and Scaling Businesses Ike Kyei, MBA 2019 Yeboah and Kyei acknowledge that the impact they’re having right now—helping to grow and scale existing businesses by working at Peak—wouldn’t have been possible without the GO: Africa... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
naming rights of Macedonia. Political Spring gained 10 seats in Parliament in its first year, but that number shrank to two seats in the next election, with the party ultimately disbanding in 1999. A failure? On some level yes, but not... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
in your book or that you've been thinking about since, what do you struggle with most? Pasricha: I mean, I have a huge thing about time management and decision making. Right now, the average person around... View Details