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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
job today is 30 to 40 percent about people, mainly teaching them how to compete in the 21st century”); judgment as to what constitutes a sound idea (“Being able to see through the chatter into those one or two things that make a difference”); and the importance of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
out of those excesses, and that means several years of negative returns. All of my clients have had to readjust their assumptions regarding risks and returns. Your clients are extremely wealthy. Do they take... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
It's going to involve tough, gutsy, courageous decisions. You're going to be taking some big risks. And it's going to be the most challenging mission ahead. How do you feel about that? Are you up for it? Are you willing to belly up to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
fragile human lives, with untapped potential, so you need to push the envelope as hard as possible to obtain the best benefit for the participant,” Callahan adds. “At the same time, you have to take very responsible View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
taking place with another company. Using a third party puts distance between the company and the candidate and gives both sides the freedom to discontinue discussions without damaging their egos and reputations." Another View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to $40,000 a year. That was a high bar. So Clark switched to a subscription model: ShotSpotter would eat the upfront cost, operate the system itself, and charge cities an annual $65,000 per square mile for the service. And critically, it stopped View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
overall student experience at HBS.” The students maintained that grade disclosure would lead to decreased cooperation and collaboration and less willingness to take risks in second-year course selection. In... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
continue mitigating those risks and advancing the technology?” The government is in the best place. They have all the testing. And while it will take much longer done by government, we’re still riding down... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
opportunity to take risks and be accountable for the outcome. You have to have confidence and faith that you’re going to be OK either way. “You can’t take the safe road all the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 edited by Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin (Chemical Heritage Foundation) In a period of rapid scientific and market changes, success in regulating food products, prescription drugs,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Startups can lead the way. There’s more innovative thinking, a willingness to take risks and to try new things. Eventually, these startups will get bigger and more successful, and those values of diversity... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
way to success, the first step, the authors say, is to take action now and learn on the way. They show how to determine the best strategy and tactics when the future is uncertain, how to minimize financial View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
chaos of the world.” (PD-1923) (PD-1923) Elizabeth Bennet: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is a master at risk management in questions of 19th-century matrimony, Desai says. Her decision at the end of the novel to marry the man she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
the taking of calculated risks based on limited information. Washington must understand that the many benefits private equity provides by facilitating economic growth are unlikely to be sustained if the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Advancing Opportunities for Others
was actually spent in capital markets. I love, love, love my capital markets job. And I'd go back to capital markets in a heartbeat. However, in around 2006, I kept hearing myself as I was speaking say, ‘If you consider yourself a leader in the 21st century, you must... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the HBS community is that HBS offers incredible optionality and optionality declines with each... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
displaying characteristics (such as consensual decision-making and greater risk aversion) more associated with women's management styles. Admittedly, acknowledging gender-based organizational distinctions View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning service firm. Type in your name... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
resources? In this book, Professor Vietor, his coeditors, and other leading scholars in law, economics, and business consider questions of corporate social responsibility in the environmental realm and provide a foundation for future research and policymaking. Make... View Details