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- 24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
they first hear about the concept that it can and is happening. Once people throw questions at me, expecting to find holes in our plan but finding that we have answers to every question, that's when folks typically start to see the View Details
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Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
never win a game. But for a team, lifting a trophy is the ultimate validation of the importance of making personal sacrifices for the good of the many.” Not long after came another unhappy twist. Swearengin had been following news...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individuals to whom you are speaking or writing to begin thinking, 'You know, maybe this guy . . . does have a valid point.' " From Pareto's optimal outcomes to Plato's Republic, the authors draw on academic research, classical...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?
people would want to use because of what it looks like or how it functions. OW: Once you came up with your idea, what steps did you take to validate it? SK: I wish I could say that I hired consultants and did a focus group, but honestly,...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2004
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A Life by Design
culminating in Project Platypus. After years of experience pursuing product design the prescribed way, Project Platypus validated Ross’ hunch that there’s a better way based on a multidisciplinary, team-based collaboration. And if it...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
to indicate competence at the young firm, thereby validating it and its potential for firm-level success," she says. Higgins and Gulati began their research by documenting the career histories of top managers from Boston-area biotech...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
think that's a valid argument in 2013." Descriptions of life after HBS reveal a stubborn consistency from 1962 to 2012: the reality that women continue to bear the brunt of work-family trade-off decisions. And classroom discussions in a...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Insight: Yenball
and signage in the ballpark, finding a way for Japanese tourists to come on preplanned trips handled by a team subsidiary—those are valid propositions that will make teams money, says Greyser. But they won't be enough by themselves for...
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- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
time. It is incredibly validating to see so many of our customers signing up for the monthly VIP membership and, even if they don't buy every month, are always happy to receive our emails and see what we've picked for their showroom. "The...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
almost managerial malpractice if you don't make crowdsourcing part of your toolkit." What about the fear of losing the ability to monetize intellectual property (IP)? Those are valid concerns. It really depends on the crowdsourcing...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
annually soared from 62,000 to 177,000. Swamped with about 350,000 patent applications each year, examiners are overwhelmed and unable to devote enough time to check out the validity of each one. And thanks to the CAFC, once a patent is...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go
business principles that are true around the world, but some things that are more context- dependent,” says HBS senior associate dean and director of Research Krishna G. Palepu. “We need to figure out which points are valid worldwide and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
and lots of wasted energy. With blockchain, every party could validate their portions of the transaction securely, remotely, and quickly. “Right there, you say, ‘OK, there’s clearly an opportunity.’ ” Before it could start, Northern Trust...
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Dan Morrell
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
interested in data streams and manual trackers. This whole movement must in some ways kind of feel like a validation of what you've been doing. It's interesting. I think that in some ways, absolutely. And it is great to see other people...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
years, which had focused on new directions for the School. These included rebuilding the self-confidence of the tenured faculty, and creating a shared sense that the School’s mission was still valid and powerful. “The absence of a broad...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
very hard to gain acceptance. And there is research that shows that even today, competence is often presumed when a man joins the board. For women, it’s often a matter of having to demonstrate or prove your competence. And I still hear that. And the social science...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
Draper petitioned the state’s attorney general for permission to collect signatures for the measure to be placed on the 2016 ballot, but by September 2014 the 752,685 validated signatures out of about 1.1 million collected (the View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time
care- fully. I've worked with a number of high-school students, and what I tell them about writing is just as valid for managers: begin with an outline. It keeps you from getting halfway through and not knowing where you should go from...
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Time management