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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2007, Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell wrote a book called Lone Survivor, which recounted his experience during a 2005 mission in Northeastern Afghanistan that ultimately View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
of the recommended measures and sent the bill to the Governor for his signature. The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and unnecessarily lower returns on company...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his...
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- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
overlooked in studies of retail product variety and inventory management. It also quantifies the impact of phantom products on store sales. In addition, our study provides empirical evidence to support earlier claims that higher product...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
room. You will never regret it, and you'll build a strong reputation." Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, Golden Seeds; blogger, Novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I'd offer three ideas to female MBAs. First, take the time to understand your heart's...
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- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
putt and the remaining distance to the pin conditioned on missing. The first is modeled through a logistic regression, the second through a gamma regression. Both models fit the data well and provide interesting insights into the game. Additionally, by describing the...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Black man who rarely saw protagonists who looked like them in the classroom. These acts may seem small, but nearly 80 percent of business school cases taught around the world are developed at Harvard. If we change the way we write and...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
as they struggled to understand why the protagonists acted as they did, they might soon be getting the answer firsthand. Consistently, Sahlman tried to focus on what he calls the “fomenting attack”—that is, the agent of change that was...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Juneteenth (June 19) of 2021 (or 2022 if met with serious challenges). “We are asking for your commitment on behalf of the student body, as future leaders who make a difference in the world, and as a woman and a Black man who rarely saw protagonists who looked like...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
power. Sometimes things aren’t going well, and it is a culture issue. It is a people issue. It is an employment brand issue. And if you do get a lawsuit or harassment claim or some sort of a massive legal issue, you have to take that head...
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the frontiers of biology (recreating the Woolly mammoth from ancient DNA), extending health lifespans – ‘curing the disease of aging’. We also look at feeder technologies that act as accelerants to the core technologies. These include...
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