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- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
a better businessperson and leader, but I think what was most impactful from my time at HBS was the case method itself. After two years of cold-calls, cases, and classroom discussion, I feel much more confident taking a position and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
million, and earnings went from breakeven to $1.5 million after taxes. “The company was on really solid footing and growing rapidly,” says Rogers, paving the way for a $45 million IPO in 1981. Rogers and Cronk now had the cash and the View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
effect of boundary spanning contact on boundary spanners' negative attitudes toward their own jobs and organization (e.g., job attractiveness and confidence in the organization). Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen Feng was View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
him, he doesn’t show it. He’s confident that his team has the skills and expertise to execute SEEQC’s roadmap. He is also convinced that the technology they’re developing is absolutely necessary to turning today’s primitive quantum... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. In particular, we argue that purposeful reflection on one's accumulated experience leads to greater learning than the accumulation of additional experience. We explain this boost in learning through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
stressors of the HBS model is speaking in class. The learning team gave me a sounding board to try out a comment before bringing it to class. I was always more confident in discussing a topic in section that had been fleshed out by the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
disruptive competitors). The authors acknowledge that disruption theory has certain limitations. But they are confident that as research continues, the theory’s explanatory and predictive powers will only improve. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
anticipation of international students' needs as they enter HBS. The School offers a comprehensive array of services for internationals, from help with class participation and exam preparation skills, to support and advisory services related to adjustment problems and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
barriers to commercialization? What made Du Pont so confident that it could succeed at this uncertain time? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810084-PDF-ENG New York Life and Immediate Annuities Julio J. Rotemberg... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
early low-pressure meetings for one consulting team, all members asked the customer-expert—a relatively junior member of the team—for input; in turn, he behaved confidently and often successfully challenged the team leader's ideas. As the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
findings are consistent with capital markets interpreting the choice of purchase accounting as a signal of management's confidence in the likelihood of a successful merger. This signal is particularly relevant when corporate governance is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reversible moves to deepen their understanding of the unfolding game being played, and to build capabilities. They accept ambiguity and some apparent failures in exchange for improved learning and market position. Imperfectionists succeed with dynamic, real-time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
analysis, but I was never asked to present." Part of this, Osmo notes, is because she is simply great with people. Meeting Sender, this becomes obvious quickly. She operates with a ready smile and the kind of authentic ease that demonstrates View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
professional investors discern when CEOs and other executives in publicly traded firms "either lacked confidence in or were conveying less than complete or reliable information" in their public statements. BIA aimed to give its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and business partners. It took the federal courts nine years to determine in a landmark case that Alibris email practices had violated no privacy laws, caused no harm, nor created undue benefits for the company. I never forgot the View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
analysis," Bhide smiles. Another is what he calls "smart arrogance" - "the confidence to believe in your ideas combined with the sense to bail out quickly if new information points in that direction." Yet a third characteristic of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
finding allies in several HBS professors bolstered my confidence to take the leap. When I graduated, I had nothing but a business plan and the $3,000 pitch prize. Then came the $25,000 HBS fellowship in 2009. Today, we are a $3 million... View Details