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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
that the subprime problem was the result of “greed, gullibility, and optimism.” Do those terms apply equally to borrowers and lenders? Oh yes. Borrowers overborrowed, lenders overloaned, and builders overbuilt. If you think about it, that...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
themselves immediately but also aspire to advance. By offering an optimal club experience, McCarthy aims to establish a long-term membership base that functions as an annuity stream. That, in turn, affords him the ability to bring in more...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
greater overall satisfaction with their lives. One of the things we are working on now is understanding how decisions about time, money, and happiness play out in the context of romantic relationships. What is the optimal way you and your...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest...
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- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
“All the best tips and training for how to best run a classroom, or a school, are wrapped up in basic management and leadership skills.” You applied to the MBA program while you were assistant principal of a middle school. Why did that...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
growing things could play in educating others about indigenous cultures. Now he talks about the intelligence of corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
to be applied globally,” said the president. This president’s identity may be a surprise—Vladimir Putin. Hopefully, we can we take him at his word? Global action is required to harness the resources and commitments necessary to combat a...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
ambition and applied to HBS. “I was almost 30 when I realized that there were people called ‘entrepreneurs’ who get paid to start new things,” says Gardner of what inspired him to earn an MBA. “It sounded like the coolest thing in the...
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Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work; it just isn’t designed or optimized to work for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
graduate and intern, to review more than a hundred LinkedIn profiles, helping former servicemen and women revise their online presence for optimal career advantage. “Technically, we made over a hundred or so profiles, but each person we...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Leaders understand that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations; or when a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. We were not surpised that our research suggests that there is no single, View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
web optimization and cookies, there’s no way to know exactly who is visiting your site, especially when devices and browsers are shared by multiple users, such as among family members, for example. Email accounts are very rarely shared,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an envelope, the structure he mapped...
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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Leger’s manager at the World Bank encouraged her to apply to Harvard Business School and earn her MBA. “I found my time at HBS to be incredibly fulfilling—academically, intellectually, and socially,” she recalls. “My best memories of HBS...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
today and the forever after of computing. The company was cofounded in 2019 by Prineha Narang, a leading computational physicist and professor at SEAS (John Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serves as CTO, along with...
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