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A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
NerveWire, Inc.
By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business...
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Nohria, Nitin, and Anthony Mayo. "NerveWire, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 402-022, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- 20 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
That Brings Peace and ProductivityJoseph Badaracco studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection. Want to Be Happier? Make More Free View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2015
- Working Paper
What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
We survey 79 private equity investors with combined assets under management (AUM) of over $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rate of return (IRR) and multiples to...
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Governance;
Value Creation;
Private Equity;
Capital Structure;
Valuation;
Management Practices and Processes
Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-081, April 2015.
- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code
Partners and families play an important role at HBS. Today, we want to celebrate the partners who have been an instrumental part in adding value to the lives of HBS students and their community. Together, HBS MBA student Frances and her...
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- 30 May 2023
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From Prison to Nike’s C-Suite: Larry Miller’s Journey
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Health Care Challenges for Leaders
By: R. E. Herzlinger
From ancient times to today, perceptive leaders have galvanized people by appealing to commonly shared values. Indeed, a discussion of leadership is virtually impossible without talking about values. As the articles in this issue demonstrate,Values are what animate...
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Herzlinger, R. E. "Health Care Challenges for Leaders." Leader to Leader, no. 47 (Winter 2008): 39–45.
- 22 Mar 2021
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Pressed for time? You’re not alone.
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
A boomerang CEO typically can be reinstalled quickly and can hit the ground running, providing a timely solution to a problem. The CEO is a known entity to members of the board of directors who have to make the decision. They cite...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Marketing: What Works? Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key: Marketers should tap into the networking aspect of sites such as Facebook....
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- 02 Feb 2012
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Will Facebook Live Up to the Hype?
- 22 Jun 2022
- Book
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
approach is highly rewarded in our current world culture. "I teach the reader the practice of free attention ... self-observing in real time as our implicit felt senses of our current life situation form."...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jun 2023
- Video
MBA Program Overview
- 2021
- Book
The Four Elements: Finding Right Livelihood in the 21st Century
By: Timothy Butler
This is a book for all who are facing career and life transitions. At such junctures, our decisions require the full self, and astute thinking alone will not carry us into the new place that our lives demand. The Four Elements shares the recent research of Dr....
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Meaningfulness;
Career Satisfaction;
Personal Development and Career;
Transition;
Decision Making
Butler, Timothy. The Four Elements: Finding Right Livelihood in the 21st Century. Open Boundary Press, 2021.
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
We asked recent HBS alumni to reflect on their time at—and after—HBS to answer the question “Is the MBA worth it?” Here are their thoughts on the business school experience, the value of an MBA degree, and...
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- 15 May 2020
- Blog Post
Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience
As the time to say goodbye to HBS and our home in Cambridge comes around, I can’t help but reflect on our move here and the thoughts that were running through my head at the beginning of our first semester. Thoughts of worry and...
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- 30 Jun 2015
- News