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Dean Srikant Datar | About

Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks Published May 29, 2024 Working Groups Update Published February 8, 2024 Play Video duration: 22:15 On May 23, 2024, Dean Srikant Datar addressed the Class of 2024 at... View Details
  • March 1998
  • Case

Bumper Acquisition (A2), A: Confidential Information for Medallion Capital, Inc.

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Decision Making; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Illinois
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Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Preparing to Teach Prior to each class session, instructor preparation involves careful planning of both content and process which includes: getting started , developing an instruction style, knowing your... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

career path and hope for this community,” he says. The students may fill an acute need for workers in the near term, but that isn’t necessarily the endpoint. Jamaal, 15, plans to attend medical school. Waltkia, also 15, is often first in the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 2016
  • Article

Penalized Fast Subset Scanning

By: Skyler Speakman, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present the penalized fast subset scan (PFSS), a new and general framework for scalable and accurate pattern detection. PFSS enables exact and efficient identification of the most anomalous subsets of the data, as measured by a likelihood ratio scan statistic.... View Details
Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Likelihood Ratio Statistic; Pattern Detection; Scan Statistic; Mathematical Methods
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  • May 2017
  • Teaching Note

Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Private Equity
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  • January 2004 (Revised February 2006)
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Raymond James Financial

Raymond James Financial (RJF) currently sells financial services through two channels. It is considering adding a third in the "middle" of the other two. The current strategy has one channel with employees and another with independent contractors. These attract very... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Salesforce Management; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

a basic job expectation. "A lot of awards are focused on identifying people at the top of the class or people who went the extra mile," Larkin says. "This award did not... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service
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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management

Harvard Business School Summer Venture in Management Program FAQs Program Frequently Asked Questions Can I apply if I am not a college junior or senior? SVMP applicants must graduating in the classes of... View Details
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Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details

  • 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
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HBS - The year in Review

highly competitive, at 13 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2022 were awarded to 817 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,794. MBA CLASS View Details
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MBA Experience - Global

MBA Experience 39% of our Class of 2025 MBA students are international, representing 66 countries. MBA 2025 Philadelphia, PA Tim Kluska MBA 2025 Venice, CA David Soled MBA 2024... View Details
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

May 2025 Harvard Business School Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2025 Celebrates Class Day Re: Meg Rithmire, Edward (Ted) Berk, Andy Wu & Rawi Abdelal 28 May 2025... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

disease and obesity—that bridges the gap between that high-octane spin class at a local gym and the joyless monotony of prescribed hospital rehab programs. The startup is science-backed: Post-heart-attack... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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Recent Alumni Regional Events - Alumni

Association of the UK and the HBS Europe Research Center. This program for all class years will feature remarks from Dean Srikant Datar and other HBS leaders, as well as opportunities to reconnect and... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude resonated with me.” As it turned out, Memme would hear a lot of “no” along the way, so the personality traits he shared with Leone would play a major role in his success. Changing Gears Amid a Pandemic... View Details
  • March 2008
  • Article

Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable" than the standard second price auction mechanism. We bring this mechanism,... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Auctions; Learning; Economics
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  • 19 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Search for Benchmarks: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?

Keywords: by Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma & Charles C.Y. Wang
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

and academic excellence. Its suite of core student programs, such as "720," where business leaders addressed nearly half of the ninth-grade class about the importance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace