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- 07 Feb 2011
- News
Tales from the casino
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Corporate Conspiracy Charges for the Financial Crisis
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of...
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- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
say, thematic concepts: foundations of arithmetic, critical thinking, and reading. Employers are very good at teaching discrete skills that you need for this particular role. You want a workforce that has both. So getting clear on when we...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
alongside them,’ wrote Patty McCord, the company’s chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012. ‘Excellent colleagues trump everything else.’ Netflix hires ‘fully formed adults,’ self-sufficient people “who feel responsible for the company, knowing that they will exercise...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
salaries and benefits for HBS’s 207 faculty (on a full-time equivalent basis) and approximately 1,000 professional and administrative staff. HBS also must manage and maintain its own discrete campus, which now comprises 33 buildings...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Speaking out on behalf of the disabled
“When I first came to HBS, part of my goal was not to be too loud, too boisterous—not to be the center of attention,” says Danny Lipsitz (MBA 2014). But Lipsitz, who has a hearing disability, found that his verbal discretion was...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter offered several ideas for coordinating and economizing, including assigning patient care to holistic, integrated practice units, instead of treatment by specialties and discrete services.
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
of McAfee and EMC. “Security people recognize they are in the business of pattern recognition. It has happened before, but in a much more human way.” BrightPoint’s business model is built on sharing. The company makes software platforms that allow organizations to...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
ask for legal help and being able to process that help effectively are teachable managerial skills. Managers also need to understand the importance of keeping their lawyers in the loop, not just on discrete legal queries but on an ongoing...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
microfinance contract has very little discretion in terms of when you repay your loan, so Natalia and her collaborators did one of the earliest studies to look at what happens if we relax that requirement and let people wait up to two...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Sites are selected two years in advance by the HBSAA, based on proposals submitted by the local clubs. While the HBSAA provides guidelines on running the events, the content of each conference, as well as its organization and implementation, are entirely at the View Details
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Cathy Connett
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
and showing that I'm a discrete person that I'm not going to screw you, that I'm not going to make your life miserable. And once that word gets around, other doors are bound to open up for you. And I had to do some crazy things to get...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
described as giving her team “room to run,” and offering the following anecdote: Bridgette Link runs Modern Finance and has broad discretion to determine what kinds of tools will make the most positive impact on her staff. Link says her...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
second set of tools concerns what you can do within a given legal environment. Students often don’t recognize how much discretion they have and what room there is for pushback. For example, in the San Bernardino case, it looked like Apple...
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- 28 May 2019
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The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
winner of this contest, and it closely resembles the buildings that went into construction in 1925. I keep these drawings on display as a reminder that the institution we inhabit today is the result of a discrete series of choices made...
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Nitin Nohria
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
meaningfulness and awe, but there's this whole other element of what about not those one discrete moments, but the compilation of moments? So you talked about children and the pain that comes from having them, but it's that culmination of...
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