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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like pricing derivatives and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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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
- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that...
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- 09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self
leaders that I've worked with, what have been the common denominators in terms of optimizing the ratio of leader A and leader B." The five principles were developed with great intentionality. The first two around purpose and making sure...
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- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
really wanted to be a pilot, but I had an astigmatism and couldn’t fly—a big disappointment, but I still served over four years as captain. I then applied to HBS, which changed my life.” “When I speak to young people today, I emphasize...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors demonstrate how View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
optimizing rather than balancing my time. When I am with my child, I give him 100 percent attention, and in a few short minutes he is off to another activity. Likewise, I arrive at a board meeting well prepared and make it known that the...
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- 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
optimize for both my own and my employees' strengths.” What is your favorite HBS case and why? Gaglani:“One that I find myself referencing frequently is on Polyface and the way it focused on economies of scope versus traditional...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
the Maldives, Bhutan, and Thailand. “As I worked in development, I realized I didn’t understand enough about finance and commerce,” he says, explaining why he applied to HBS. “It was also a bit about taking a step back to understand what...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
advantage of challenges and opportunities, interact effectively with people within and outside of your organization, and, importantly, achieve work-life balance while managing your career advancement. Applying these tips will instill...
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- 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 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
performance, and innovation. Peterson and three colleagues from Emory were among the program’s 68 participants from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. “We’ve always felt there was an opportunity to apply the leadership and...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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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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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
some point going forward—in effect, learning alongside our students. We've also continued to optimize our Live Online Classrooms (LOCs), where all participants are remote but the faculty member is in a room where video screens of each...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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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 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during the course of their careers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2013
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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 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
lessons from Schwarzman’s life and career that includes creating one of the world’s largest investment firms, and becoming an active philanthropist. The result is an empowering, entertaining, and inspiring guide to optimizing ambition,...
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