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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
section experience and helping to prepare students for the interpersonal dynamics of the workplace.” In their final months as students, we asked one learning team to reunite over dinner to talk about their time at the School. What we got...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
work he makes a resource allocation decision at the operating level—how to allocate his time and attention—which de facto keeps the investment from happening, even though financial resources have been procured. So this is a case where the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement Authors:Matthew Carty, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
process posing other more interesting propositions for consideration. Tony Wanless emphasized the importance of knowing the way leaders learn from experience, suggesting the need for "a synthesis of thinking that adds value to the...
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by Jim Heskett
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Ann Lucena
I'm learning just as much from other students," Ann says. "Every day in class someone will say something that makes me stop and think. Many times the comments that make me pause are the most unexpected ones; the ideas in direct...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
reinventing the breast-milk storage process for women and providing products that will make the lives of busy moms much simpler. I recently read something written by a female founder making the comparison between motherhood and...
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- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
favorite classes are the ones where I would change my mind two or three times during the course of the debate. You don’t get challenged like this in a lecture, period. I definitely had some initial concerns about whether it was possible...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the assignment of evaluators and proposals...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Erosion Of The Industrial Commons From, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance By Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih In times past, farmers and local townspeople would bring their livestock to the commons—a...
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- 30 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Adrian Obleton
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he...
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan Contest, which this year for...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
since 1983. By his own rough reckoning, 34,000 printed pages of Class Notes have passed through his hands over 24 years. During that time, the number of Class Notes secretaries — recipients of Keith’s timely deadline reminders — has grown...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual projects. As a result, we know a lot about topics such as...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies
or marketing gurus? Knowing your audience and learning where they spend their time is of utmost importance. You don’t want to spend time and money on Quora if your audience is on Pinterest, or vice versa....
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- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
four half-terms, allowing faculty more creativity in shaping innovative courses and students more flexibility in building their schedules. While less far-reaching on the surface, over time the modular approach promises to transform the...
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Andres Sarmiento
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? Working at American Airlines' through the bankruptcy process made me reconsider the form of impact that I intended to have. My career until that point had consisted in...
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- 31 May 2018
- Blog Post
Yes, Introverts CAN Network Successfully: A Brief How-To for People Who "Hate" Networking
and manipulative." The key, he says, is to "take these adjectives and turn them upside down. Introverts can succeed by creating a networking process that is real, sincere and genuine." Networking isn't something only...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
nonprofits to the managerial emphasison unregulated pro forma earnings, to teamwork in health-care organizations. Synopses of three of the presentations follow. Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives In 2000, CEOs were earning, by some measures, 458 View Details