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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lab and fieldwork. How do you settle on a particular research question to investigate? Katherine Coffman: I’m looking for two things. The most important one is whether it has the potential to really make a difference for outcomes. It has... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
In the first part of “Classroom Hijinks” last week, I discussed catchphrases, cheers, and mascots as examples of section spirit engendered by the fortunate decision to have a first-year section’s courses all taught in the same classroom.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argue that too many government decisions and initiatives are shaped by psychological biases and unproductive thinking habits. The result, they say, is a public-policy mindset that's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
to take hold. Do you think these changes are a step in the right direction? It depends on how the DNI role plays out. I see three possible outcomes — two bad and one good. One possibility is that we give in to the temptation to centralize — give all the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
blames the music industry's recent problems, perhaps ironically, on the compact disc. In the early 1980s, this little piece of hardware rescued the music business from the lethargy of the post-disco era - the industry's only other down period in recent history. With... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
Debbi, who told him to stop justifying his decision. If he was going to make the move, just do it. They had planned financially for the moment, fully aware that going the nonprofit route would mean a substantial pay cut. That part was... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
this mission, Wellthy should also change the basis of competition with its pricing model. Fortunately for Wellthy, C-suite decision makers are of the right demographic to personally appreciate the problem Wellthy solves. Pricing per... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the new markets of the world. How do you View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
leading a life of significance and purpose that is dedicated to serving others. The book comes alive through the author’s story, of how his legacy shaped his worldview and drove decisions that eventually led to his own crucible moment.... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- News
Exploring tax policy and our quality of life
He’s exploring how people feel about making taxation decisions based on personal attributes, which current US tax policy does. Some of his other research, in part for his elective curriculum course at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
The blind man depicted in the sculpture suffers from river blindness, a disease that ravaged countless lives in the developing world until Merck researchers discovered the breakthrough drug Mectizan. The company's decision to donate the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling stories, how they make decisions that affect all students. Similarly, leaders have become teachers in knowledge-centric environments; they can’t just tell people what to do but must help them acquire... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
a statistic. I was determined not to be a statistic. I fell in love with finance. I fell in love with the concept of being able to take a dollar and make it into two. You can have a great vision, but if you don’t have your balance sheet... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
launching their own startups? “My advice relates to seeking advice: A lot of people will offer advice about your startup. I think it’s valuable to listen to and consider all of it, but you need to be cautious about becoming impressionable. Most people offer advice... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
wrote more cases on human behavior and organization. So cases were introduced as a way of helping students solve problems and develop their critical thinking and ability to make decisions, but also as a way for the School to stay current... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley