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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
bulletin@hbs.edu. Write us a letter. This is your magazine. It needs your voice. Gene Williams, featured in the December 2013 HBS Alumni Bulletin Top Story The story of Gene Williams (MBA 1987) and his new drug development model hit a...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
business leaders navigate this rapidly evolving next frontier of the internet, build new ventures in it, and adapt existing business models so that companies and organizations can take advantage of opportunities that are emerging because...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Members provide input, expertise, and feedback to the leadership of External Relations and the School. After an introduction by current Board President Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997), HBS leadership shared updates on the MBA program, the...
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- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our business View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
build my own company.” So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would become EyeView. “It didn’t feel like I was taking as much of a risk because I was still a student,” he says. Initially,...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
genius was in how he organized experimentation,” Thomke told a gathering of colleagues during a recent HBS research symposium. “He knew that if you don’t get rapid feedback on new ideas, they often grow cold and don’t get pursued.” In his...
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- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
because we wanted it to be perfect. The reality is a startup isn’t about perfection on the first try. When we launched our first product we were hawks––watching and waiting for any feedback we could get. Hearing what consumers had to say...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
situational awareness. And everyone is familiar with this phrase. This phrase actually comes from aviation. And what it means is that you build mental models while things are going on. You tell yourself stories about what is occurring as...
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- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
you design products. We've often had innovation brainstorm groups in the course that I teach. And what's great is we have young entrepreneurs, business school students, meeting with older adults and getting feedback on what their needs...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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From Das’s Desk
personal subject. We expect your feedback from these different formats will provide fresh insights into how we might shape future reunion programs. Based on your feedback, for the Reunion Weekend this June we are iterating on our...
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
with Harvard's interfaculty Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, resulted in his formulation of a model of human behavior that explains why even the most "rational" people behave irrationally at times, willfully continuing in self-destructive...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not...
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Judith A. Ross
- 07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert Smith. The mobile patient View Details
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April White
- 01 Sep 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk
we will work our hardest to harness all the resources in our ecosystem to reach you, to help you learn, and to make HBS relevant to you on a real-time, ongoing basis throughout your life. Your feedback on this View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my boss, in which...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
being performed. “The key to anything we do is to stay on a very, very tight feedback loop between analysis, insight, and implementation,” says Hodges. Digging into the data keeps that loop turning with all the speed of a ballerina’s...
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Julia Hanna