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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
But Westley was just one horse in a stable full of horses, each with its own nutritional needs. Sometimes he got his vitamins, sometimes he didn’t. After talking to the barn’s owner, Minard began to appreciate how complicated it can be to...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive factors in other countries. That...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, HBS professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding psychological and other...
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- 15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality
more complicated to get a grip on that, but solving that problem around unconscious bias is big. And then second, you got to expose more people of color to this industry and business. I really believe most of us who are in this business,...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution
necessarily the best way to organize an industry. This is a fixed-cost business, and it has some fourteen hundred players. Talent and technology get fragmented, and that hinders cumulative learning. And with discoveries happening in separate firms, a whole series of...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
deeply about each of these aspects of life. The reality is that this book is ornately written, and the complications of life are intricately explicated. Laymon shows—he doesn’t just tell—us what it looks like to be an American, while...
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business School, the cause of death was...
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- 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
were sparked by the killing of George Floyd. Tell me about your own reaction to that news. Lisa Lewin: Oh, April, that is such a heavy, complicated question. So as an African-American woman of a certain age, I have over four-and-a-half...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep working on things that are really View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
prices. We’re going to set up an auction mechanism, and we’re going to take the lowest price we can,” explained Mankiw. “Whether that’ll be successful or not is hard to say because these assets are very complicated and setting the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
we should think long and hard about that developmental aspect, across disciplines and courses. As Jay noted, How do we teach and educate them to help them as professionals make sound decisions with great integrity? That's a complicated...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
a complicated array of people, which is why it can be difficult,” he says. New York already had some of those elements, thanks to the dot-com boom of the 1990s, which yielded a number of prominent media and ad tech startups along with...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
complicated challenge. Early experience suggested that computer-aided case analysis could enhance classroom discussion and bring real-life business issues into sharper focus. Faculty engaged in a continual process of experimentation in...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
HBS alumni have a complicated relationship with the notion of retirement. The simple vision of leaving one’s career at the age of 65 and moving to a sunny clime to while away the days playing golf may work well for some. But an...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
earlier, a surprisingly elegant parking structure. It took several years and complicated financing, but on June 5, 2013, Cummings watched as hundreds of Detroiters—black and white, rich and poor—gathered in front of the new grocery store....
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
drive-thru. And because our menu had more items than some of the other folks out there, ordering became more complicated—the kitchen became more complicated.” The more complicated things became, the longer the wait times got. But there...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
the best possible solution to complicated public policy problems,” he says, weighing all the evidence against a gut feeling. Beyond his business acumen, it’s also possible that Mitsotakis inherited a bit of political instinct. The prime...
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Jen McFarland Flint