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- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every decision up the chain... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
possessed a commodity that a creditor wanted. 9 6 Quoted in Stewart Hall Holbrook, Machines of Plenty; Pioneering in American Agriculture (New York: Macmillan, 1955), 36. 7 Joseph Albert Ernst, Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775: A Study in the Currency View Details
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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA
patterns (decibel intensity and rhythm). Applied as an emergency-alarm for a school for the hearing-impaired, the system allows hearing-impaired students to act quickly in a hazardous event. The experience allowed me to meet the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
following technologies: Miniproteins that can penetrate cells and act on targets that were previously considered "undruggable." The application of unique genetic and biochemical methods to develop new antibiotics targeting the outer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
entrepreneurial spirit, these ventures serve this atypical demand by acting as matchmakers between donors and health care areas. Such a development makes many observers pause since there is a strong taboo in many countries—including the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS
first semester, you tend to know the type of comment someone is about to say when they raise their hand. Aside from classwork, we shared personal stories, helped tutor each other before exams, and held sessions to teach other students about various cultures and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
general manager. The project came about after Garvin's search for teaching materials on the distinction between the job of a general manager and that of a senior functional manager yielded "next to nothing." Acting on a suggestion from... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 08 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
New Year, New Career Goals: Coaches Offer Advice for 2019
search. Finally, you may continue to build your own network in ways you hadn't anticipated, perhaps meeting people outside of your own circle. This simple act of kindness can help set you up for success when you begin your outbound... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
The WSA final review sessions have become invaluable to everyone! We also have WSA-only career fairs, workshops on negotiating your offer letter, and more. Events & Community The WSA acts as a conduit between faculty, students, and... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
emerged after the booming 1990s and the resulting public uproar that forced Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were eerily similar to the period leading up to the market crash of 1929. Coming out of that, the president of the New... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
drawn to VW dealers to look at the New Beetle often ended up buying other VW models more suited to their specific needs. In this way, the scarce product acted as a brand magnet for the entire product line. As the examples above... View Details
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Michelle Lee
Section I experience for every #iordie section member." In her HBS admissions essay, she wrote about an HBS alum (and former CEO of Panera), Ron Shaich, whose fund Act III Holdings has invited her to intern this summer. There,... View Details
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Caitlin Reimers
private-sector efforts?" Reflecting on what HBS has taught her about leadership, Cait says, "I'm struck by leaders who combine on-the-ground knowledge with a deep, personal understanding of people. I've learned that integrity means not only understanding your... View Details
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Harvard Business School
self–determined, moral act in organizing ourselves to address such societal issues of racism, poverty, neglect, exclusion and tokenism," AASU co–founder A. Leroy Willis (MBA '69) wrote. 21 In December 1969, AASU students voiced their... View Details
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Institutional Voice | About
publicly challenged the veracity or integrity of research published by a University center or institute, the leaders of that center could publicly defend the research. On the other hand... Following natural disasters, acts of mass... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
campus. When they left, the depression set in. While my classmates prepared cases and exercised after class, I went to my dorm room and cried, sometimes thinking of self-harm but not acting on it. Over time, I recovered. I saw a counselor... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
groceries. But when I'm there, my children know I'm completely theirs." While it's a juggling act to keep family, career, and personal interests (which include playing the piano) in balance, Havens-Hasty says that for all the frustrations... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
turning honest mistakes into ethical failures. But when people are acting as fiduciaries or when their decisions affect the lives and well-being of millions of people around the globe, reckless judgment becomes a matter of public concern... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
welcomes projects from any builder, Stuntz explains. Despite the company’s rocky road thus far, he remains firmly committed to Greentech’s unique vision. Says Stuntz: “It’s a juggling act — trying to stay true to the original concept,... View Details