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- 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
from the firm’s Cranford headquarters, allowing its eight-person team to provide fast, personal service. The company also takes an “engineering approach” to services, investing in skilled technicians rather than relying on less costly local electricians and day... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
practitioners. It was a particular honor for me to be named the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business in 1998. Established 60 years ago, this chair helped launch agribusiness as a field of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- 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
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
completing my MBA at HBS. I had no nanny, no partner, nothing; only the wonderful team at Soldiers Field Park Children Center where I would drop off my daughter and then proceed to my classes. What did I do during evening events/classes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and brought together faculty and students at HDS and HBS through regular luncheons and joint field studies. In 1993, as a senior Fulbright scholar, Massie served on the faculty of the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
variety of known causes, but this is the first time a genetically driven form of hearing loss has received rare disease recognition. We think the designation will broaden medical research in this field and ultimately lead to a range of... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
to enter the medical profession. With the United States on the brink of nuclear war, he wondered, "What use will I be as a doctor if the world is not a betterrun place?" He shifted his field of study and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
The first written case, a one-page narrative about management challenges at General Shoe Company, was taught in 1921 and marks the beginning of a century of case teaching. “Over time, as we would develop a series of cases in a field, we began to understand that View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the University of Rochester in 1977 and served as its director until 1988. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the steering committee of Harvard's Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, an interfaculty effort to study the limitations of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the numbers. Inclusiveness is about making the numbers count and effecting a cultural change. Your earlier research resulted in a surprising finding about the difference between male and female star performers. In a nine-year study of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS. We lived at 74 Harvard Way Extension in the building closest to the river and on the south side of the project, which extended from the Dean’s House to Soldiers Field Road and the footbridge. There was an entrance on Soldiers View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Beshears collaborated on a field study in which 6,000 university employees were asked if they’d like to increase their retirement contributions right away or if they’d prefer to make an increase in the near... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint