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- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
business school and being admitted four years before attending took a lot of pressure off. I always wanted to take an unconventional path before school and being admitted through 2+2 removed the View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
guy” in health care operations? The question had long intrigued him. Before coming to HBS through the 2+2 program, Josh had fulfilled internships and fulltime career roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman...
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Health Care
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
in a digitally-transformed economy. “All of these decisions would be easy to make if I knew what consumer demand will be. The problem is that I have a lot of uncertainty in demand” All retailers face tricky tactical decisions related to...
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- 23 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?
During the financial crisis of 2008, major credit rating agencies faced sharp criticism for failing to recognize and warn of the risks of emerging instruments like mortgage-backed securities. Since that...
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by Ben Rand
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
develop their own infrastructure first. "We used to say that auto companies, telecoms, and big retailers weren't at risk of disruption within their industries, because there were such high barriers to entry;...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
FIELD, several EC courses, the Innovation Lab, and multiple start-up competitions, HBS allowed both of us to learn by doing. Combining those experiences with encouragement from professors, and the lessons...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
strong work ethic, people skills, judgment, maturity, and a sense of humor.” In terms of the plan’s presentation, he continues, “you need a big, crisply articulated idea, conveyed in a cogent presentation that is nondefensive View Details
- January 2023
- Article
Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Derrick P. Bransby
Since its renaissance in the 1990s, psychological safety research has
flourished—a boom motivated by recognition of the challenge of navigating uncertainty and change. Today, its theoretical and practical significance
is amplified by the increasingly complex and...
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Safety;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Leadership;
Working Conditions;
Research;
Performance;
Learning;
Organizational Culture
Edmondson, Amy C., and Derrick P. Bransby. "Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 10 (January 2023): 55–78.
Richard F. Meyer
Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a...
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- 05 May 2000
- Conference Presentation
Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in New Product Development
By: Alan MacCormack and Roberto Verganti
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
From software that once came in a box to phone apps that do simple tasks, more products and services are moving to a subscription model—and consumers are feeling it. The average US consumer last year spent $273 a month on 12 paid...
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- 12 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
How can financial planners expand their businesses as their core population ages and young investors flirt with novel financial products like cryptocurrency? The most profitable path forward is to follow the very advice they often give...
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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
lifetime, more likely than men to be obese, and face a 20% increased risk of developing heart failure or dying within five years of their first severe heart attack compared with men. That is to say, women’s...
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- April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Biotechnology Strategies in 1992
Describes the strategies of biotechnology companies which face similar uncertainties and illustrates different types of strategic responses to uncertainty. Each firm faces the strategic issues of which end-use industries to choose, how broad their product line should...
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Teisberg, Elizabeth O. "Biotechnology Strategies in 1992." Harvard Business School Case 792-082, April 1992. (Revised June 1993.)
- March 2019
- Case
Mahindra Finance
By: V.G. Narayanan and Tanvi Deshpande
Mahindra Finance is a non-banking lender operating mainly in the rural and semi-urban areas of India. Set up in 1991, the company had grown to become a market leader with assets of $8.5 billion and a presence in 3,30,000 villages across India. Since most of Mahindra's...
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- March 1984 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
MCI Communications Corp.--1983
MCI Communications Corp. is faced with a large need for external financing to support rapid growth and substantial uncertainty due to the AT&T antitrust settlement. The case illustrates the value of convertible debt as a financing instrument in these circumstances.
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Growth Management;
Emerging Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
Greenwald, Bruce C. "MCI Communications Corp.--1983." Harvard Business School Case 284-057, March 1984. (Revised June 1998.)
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
positive relationship between risk and return is strong between asset classes (say, stocks and bonds), it is weak within classes, such as the stock market. By analyzing a large...
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- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
year detailing Gebru’s efforts within Google to urge caution with AI, saying tech companies shouldn’t race to launch systems without considering the potential risks and harms they could cause. She warned...
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- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017.
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Levers Of Control;
Strategy;
Risk Management;
Decisions;
Cooperative Ownership;
Product Development;
Moral Sensibility;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Expansion;
Science-Based Business;
Research;
Management Practices and Processes;
Business Subsidiaries;
Biotechnology Industry;
Sydney