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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
the authors have identified eight core functions of business work, such as quantitative analysis and enterprise control. A reader armed with an individual BCII profile can learn from the text how to assess work opportunities in terms of...
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Bob Binstock
- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Full Circle
cat, and conducted a cerebrospinal fluid analysis on a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, among many other delicate surgical tasks. For Anderson, co–managing partner of South Texas Veterinary Specialists LLP (STVS) in San Antonio, this is all in...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
curriculum. In that exercise, designed to make managers more comfortable using personal computers and to help them recognize the changes technology would bring to their organizations, each participant was provided with a personal computer to use for View Details
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
positions, as consultants, analysts, etc., at each of these companies? How many HBS alumni have served on congressional committees that have made policy decisions that led to the crisis? How many HBS alumni have served at various levels...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
initiatives. Recently, McGinn has taken a nuanced look at evidence that women in professional service organizations are more likely to be promoted when the firm's leadership includes significant numbers of women. Her analysis of five...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
added that "with almost Œreal-time' information, business can now make appropriate decisions rather than guess." Second on the list was telecommunications, "a great facilitator, the pipeline that allows other innovations to happen (the...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
senior management is especially necessary, Coote said, in managing the partnerships that now often result from changed business models and corporate restructurings. Senior management should be active participants in the process to ensure that effective View Details
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Daniel Penrice
- 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere. Speed & Scale intersperses...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
here. Morrell: Does your insight into how venture capitalists think help you in those discussions at all? Polli: That's a really good question. We did an analysis of venture capitalists versus entrepreneurs and the similarities and...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
that bridges neurology care for Midtown, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods.” Questions raised by the assembled group make it clear that getting from the point of analysis to execution will take some serious work. “This can’t...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in public...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Inc., likes to tell that story, not only for the humor inherent in Wanamaker's statement, but also because it relates directly to his business. "That's a data problem," Howe says. "Business, like life, is full of decisions. Almost every View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors discuss four types of highly successful “business builder” personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader,...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
1920–2000: How It Worked, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of the entrepreneurs and companies that have left their impression on world industry. McCraw examines...
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