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Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship

Rock 100 A worldwide exclusive HBS network for founders of early stage, high impact ventures. We are growing exponentially! Welcome to the Rock 100. The Summit The Summit The Summit The Summit An exclusive event where Rock 100 entrepreneurs from the global network... View Details

28 Jun 2021
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7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

approach you’re taking to move through complexity and uncertainty. This trains you every single day to develop rigorous mental frameworks to deal with problems in this methodical way. #4 Ask for help. The... View Details

25 Jul 2023
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Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

healthcare and lithium businesses. “That’s the great thing about the Wesfarmers model,” Scott tells the paper. “We have the capacity to allocate capital and adjust the portfolio so that our group remains... View Details

07 Jun 2021
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The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

dynamic group of individuals who challenged my viewpoints and told me about their experiences. Everyone I associated with was friendly, the environment at HBS was welcoming, and the curriculum was View Details

2009
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Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

the T.R.A.P. Lab? Turner: I consider it both a think tank and a time saver for people doing rigorous research on race and technology. It's an environment where social... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details

01 Sep 2022
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Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

put it, religious belief may affect organizational performance “if the belief excludes individuals from “alien” religions from the organization, such as an Islamic bank not employing Christians or a strictly Christian firm not employing Muslims.” So perhaps the View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Academics - Health Care

fibrosis. A goal of the program is to draw out some key debates that are more broadly relevant to life sciences, such as: the value of early detection, the pricing of life saving drugs, the incentives for innovation, View Details

April 2023
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Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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Donor Societies - Alumni

Invitations to entrepreneurship-related virtual and in-person events Listing on the HBS website and in HBS’s annual Report on Giving Annual updates on entrepreneurship at HBS Access to new View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time needed to transfer the View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

powerful predictors of what customers think and how they react to new or existing goods and services. It was as if we had identified a secret code of thought, one that customers were unaware they were using.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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Pam Chan

Southeast Asia to gather input, and worked on a five-year innovation map for laundry detergent. But after three years with P&G, "I got interested in tech – it was an area that would still be View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

realm of design and human interaction with everyday objects. Norman provides thought-provoking insights on usability and human-centered design. The book is relevant to my own... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

Experience provides pragmatic guidelines for implementing performance-based pricing: Invest the time up-front to carefully and fully define the objectives of the project and exchange all the View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

entice people to pay attention to relevant information and act more conscientiously. Through experimentation, Exley and Kessler’s recent research confirms that information... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

collects externally published material relevant to teaching by the case method. Resources Convening Colloquia & Workshops The Center facilitates colloquia on Teaching and Learning, attended by a large... View Details

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