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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look
attention was on Rick, so the professor received another surprise after turning around to the class again and seeing rows of students in Groucho Marx masks.” Greg Zorthian (MBA ’81A) added that one of the professors that day was Len... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
in the industry that have obvious inefficiencies and solving those directly. Corbin turned back to the problem of customer service. "I'd pay attention to hospital systems and how they engage with payers," she said. "Providers are... View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
attention of the IRS, given the loss of tax revenues, but why is the SEC interested? First, this dual-reporting system creates significant confusion. In effect, one-third of costs (the tax claim on pretax profits) is not reported clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- Web
Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services
definition language When choosing the appropriate data types , pay special attention to the following: type, length and sign of numeric columns features of fixed or variable length character, text, and binary columns row enumeration and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
country," says Favel. In the next few decades, they may make up the majority of the population, and it's important that they become educated, employed, and engaged. "The fact that I drew so much attention because I'm a Cree Indian is... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
manufacturers,” Hisano writes in the conclusion of her paper. That said, color continues to be an important ingredient in packaged foods. “My research on food coloring is an early example of how companies pay attention to consumers’... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
discrimination. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53686 Channeled Attention and Stable Errors By: Gagnon-Bartsch, Tristan, Matthew Rabin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A common critique of models... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
gamble. So there are different ways to get into the game.” In addition to offering close personal attention and care, Clay limits the size of a stallion’s “book,” selecting a limited number of quality mares from those that have applied... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Thyssen himself paid an immense amount of attention to issues of organization, accounting, and control, so in many ways the book reflects those interests. It became clear that Thyssen and his managers were doing many innovative things in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Triston Francis
reasons: “HBS has all the resources I can imagine. It has the largest, global alumni network. And the Harvard name is able to attract anyone’s attention – that helps me achieve the goals I have in mind.” As a first-generation college... View Details
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
generating commercial returns equal to or greater than conventional businesses. This success has drawn the attention of large multinational corporations, looking at the base of the pyramid for the growth that has become ever more... View Details
- 20 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
company was very much like working for a start up that is on the precipice of transitioning into a larger company. How do you maintain the culture of freedom and creativity while setting yourself up to scale globally by taking on more artists that require the amount of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
serious attention at HBS, was intoxicating. That year, 26 graduates went into the real estate field, in no small measure due to him. I will never forget his time-honored recipe for success: "Find a discontinuity and capitalize on it."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
Clinton as assistant secretary and CFO of the Department of Commerce, Bilmes’s attention shifted to government spending. “The government is good at making promises, but poor at valuing what those promises are going to cost,” says Bilmes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
We are in the process of working out a contract with two of our vendors of licensed commercial products that would also permit us to provide these services to alumni from our own platform for a fixed fee. Aside from technology, what else commands your View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
and Amaris Singer (all HBS 2014). As Gerald explains: "With globalization, there's been a lot of attention paid to what's happening overseas, and rightly so. But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
answer similar-but objectively incorrect-questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that went hand-in-hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go undetected because listeners' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Thales to Ochkam. He pays particular attention to the church and how the purpose of medieval philosophy was radically different from that of ancient Greece and Rome. At medieval universities philosophy was a prerequisite to studies in... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
David Rockefeller, the firm has a renowned art collection, much of which is displayed on the walls of its offices. When Shibayama started there, he barely even noticed the art, including the pieces hanging in his own office. “I didn’t pay any View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman