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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Sustainability in Waste Management

management. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 This report aggregates solid waste data at the national and urban level and predicts waste generation to 2030 and 2050. In View Details

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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog

happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of sales, but that assumption is the tipping point. Without sales, the entire... View Details

20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

doesn’t just assess an investment on the basis of whether it will have impact, but also on whether it can generate a return that will make it possible to be self-sustaining. In addition to increasing the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Psychology. Vol. 40, edited by Mark P. Zanna, 61-149, 2008 Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) defines two fundamental dimensions of social perception, warmth and competence, predicted respectively by perceived competition and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

of generative AI to create a “virtual havruta” and create a test case for this new technology. Leboyer reached out to Israel’s Sefaria, the world’s largest open-source, digital library of Jewish texts, to discuss how a large language... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain circumstances, the in-store clinic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

10 Jun 2002
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How to Look at Globalization Now

there is actually no systematic evidence on this subject. Given that dearth of evidence, I adopted the research strategy of picking an interesting sector and zooming in on a particularly interesting case within it, and then generalizing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

beverages, and after verifying the similarity of their responses, we generated a model that calculates the expected average healthiness rating that experts would give to any other product based on its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

horizons. We also demonstrate that nonlinear boosting models with feature selection, such as random forests, perform significantly better than traditional linear models. The best-performing method (random forest) yields an out-of-sample... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

in the generation of dissent. Our analysis uses economic tools, often accompanied by an antitrust perspective, to better understand the implications of government information control and social pressures upon speech and dissent.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight

function caused by the tumor and its treatment, Susan had survived the unsurvivable. It was then that Sontag made a promise to himself and his wife: “If I ever get a chance to do something about this disease, I’m going to do it.” In 2002, he had that chance. Sontag... View Details

Keywords: April White

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4.3 Missing Persons | MBA

appropriate, about the student’s disappearance. In addition to identifying a general emergency contact person, students residing in on-campus housing have the option to identify confidentially a separate... View Details

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Doug Lester

Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter... View Details

Keywords: Auto/Transportation/Logistics; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Insurance; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Real Estate; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology

19 May 2014
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Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

personal information because the additional revenues generated in the process exceed the consumer disutility incurred. Clearly, personal consumer information is a valuable asset in the marketplace. To better... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

13 Jan 2020
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Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

initiatives for top-tier customers. However, the "startup bug" was always in me: creating something from nothing, positively impacting a market, and thinking big. I joined ClimaCell in Boston after its Series-A funding, and played a role in growing the company through... View Details

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Steve Alden

relevant to the international scope of the credit crisis." In addition to presenting fresh cases, the school brings in exciting speakers. "Michael Dell, Jack Welch of General Electric, Paul... View Details

03 Dec 2012
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HBS Cases: Against the Grain

officials, for example, feel it cathartic to go online and describe what happened. In addition to accumulating reports of corruption, the site, run by the Bangalore-based nonprofit Janaagraha, also generates... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

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