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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Raiffa Honored for Life’s Work in Decision Analysis
mathematician by training, Raiffa was an originator of the decision tree and did extensive research on negotiations and choice-making in complex and ambiguous situations. Raiffa was an adviser to the Kennedy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
profile, MacDonald said about his HBS experience, “I learned that total ice-cold objectivity is unattainable. Each man has his own warps and biases. To think properly, one must be aware of these emotional hang-ups, and make allowances for them. This was the lesson in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
campaign. To “put it all into action,” she says, the HBSLAA is assembling the Latinx Board Taskforce, aimed at connecting board-ready Latinx alumni and board decision makers to “move the needle on driving diversity in the boardroom.” Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
others. It was attended by about half the section, which probably skipped a class with the permission of the instructor. Adored by Section E for his quick wit, warm personality, and brilliance in teaching the decision View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
negative to our brand?’ At JDRF, when I arrived, brand management and having brand as part of the decision tree was a new practice.” There is one other big difference between PepsiCo and nonprofits such as... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
crowd for the club’s reboot of the Leadership Breakfast, and noted that they saw many younger and recent HBS alumni who were likely attracted by the topic of AI. “Marshall truly demystified it for so many of us. AI is really a way to make better View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many things to change your professional circumstances, but there’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
free to initiate their own changes. An employee at one of our Seattle hotels said, “I just noticed that they’re delivering all these phone books on a huge palette. Do we need those?” No, we don’t. You save a lot of trees if you eliminate... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
small lemon tree in the graveyard where his father and uncle had been buried. His death made me realize my own mortality, but it was more of a rational response than an emotional one. My grandmother’s death felt different. Like so many... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
place," he explains. "The team just needed a coach to get them organized to run the right plays." He cites HBS for providing that know-how, and more: "Do we need to be able to build a decision tree and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
stuck with me is that, in the end, a decision must be made. You can't be wishy-washy. He told us to always remember that when you get to the top of a company, decision trees do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
later an escape for actor Marlon Brando, the islands are now home to a Pacific Beachcomber resort. Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and Neil Calvanese (Columbia Univ.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
sustainable use of resources. Wal-Mart, for example, just committed to buy seafood only from MSC-certified fisheries. This decision has rocked the industry because Wal-Mart is the second-largest buyer of fish in the United States. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and Neil Calvanese (Columbia Univ.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
contrary forces of dreamer and doer in Mawilmada that would propel him through the various stages of his career. At that point, he was still the dreamer who had worked on designing a fantastical, entirely artificial baobab tree in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
$10 million a year. The internet rescued us.” Family bonding: “For one week every summer, we’ve been building a tree house. We must have 10,000 pounds of lumber up in the air. It’s really sturdy—but it’s an unpleasing aesthetic... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
"Devin." - Me and my brother were walking down a trail, and we're both smoking some meth. He said something to me, and it set me off. And I picked up a tree limb. I started hitting him with it. Busted his head open. I think it broke one... View Details