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Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

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McArthur Hall | About

bedrooms arranged in eight-person suites with common areas that maximize the opportunity for collaborative discussions. Rooms are equipped with the latest multi-media tools and... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

Army, this was the most common response I received when people found out about my background. There often seems to be an unspoken perception that people only join the military... View Details

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

reasonable steps to ensure that the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of alcohol otherwise complies with applicable law and University policy. A. Alcohol Service for HBS Events All alcoholic beverages at events on View Details

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

finance piece was completely missing," says Gupta. "So for two years, I went to his office and I worked on our personal portfolios." As she pursued finance in college and as a profession in India, Gupta realized that inexperience in personal finance was View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

programs must begin with two hallmark approaches. First is a common understanding of the need for integration, and for both sales and marketing to focus on productive sharing of power, information, and... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

belonging or exclusion), resource (providing survival), and control—describe 70 percent of our inner feelings. The objective is to find deep metaphors that individuals share in common (a true market segment... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

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Help - Research Computing Services

Help There are several ways to get help for issues that may arise. For assistance with troubleshooting, please use this form , email research@hbs.edu , or call 617.495.6100 . Use the 5 W's (who, what, where, when, and why) as a guideline... View Details

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

obviously the most challenging. Lagace: What are common errors when companies try to create innovative cultures? Pisano: Big companies too often try to emulate startup cultures, and that’s misguided. First... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Outdoor Spaces | About

with the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. Sebastian Kresge and the Kresge Foundation are now honored in the naming of Kresge Way. Peterson Park Peterson Park, located between Morgan... View Details

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

thoughtfully and purposefully. Every founder should read it—and take the time to digest its rich data and lessons." In this excerpt from Chapter 9, Wasserman discusses the advantages and disadvantages... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

and New Year’s, and why I always had to bring back a bunch of gifts for family after travelling. Over the years, however, I have become less focused on differentiating the Filipino experience from View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Ps of Strategy, Part II Featured Exercises Analyze your organization’s approach to managing common organizational tensions Identify strengths and deltas in your organization’s approach to executing strategy 5-6 hrs Module 2 Aligning Job... View Details

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

Database Best Practices Delimiters 3ms Word of Caution on Delimiters The field delimiter is the character which splits data or text into separate fields. A field is a column within your database. As an... View Details

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

in such a big class?” Well, Neil Wusu (MBA 2015) and Philipp Schalli (MBA 2015) are here today to answer some of those common questions, tell you about section life, and the ways it builds a community here... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

Frist, who is married to Tommy, worked at Goldman Sachs and Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Company and now serves on several nonprofit boards. In honor of the Frists, the new faculty View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lawrence G. with Patrick Robinson. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers . New York: Crown Publishing Company, 2009. McDonald,... View Details

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