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- 18 Jul 2014
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Team Players
HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
through which leaders of any era emerge. In Value Sweep: Mapping Corporate Growth Opportunities, valuation and strategy expert Martha Amram proposes a simple and transparent valuation method that helps managers quantify the value of their...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor
with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case method recognizes this....
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be successful...
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April White
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
then methodically proceeded to rationalize P&G's cost structure, sold some businesses, acquired Clairol, and delivered upside revenues and earnings surprises within months. Rick and A.G. are two shining examples of how capable company...
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Desmond Wong
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
it always takes double, he explained to Rogers. When they say it will cost $30 million, it ends up costing $60 million. “I wish we could be better predictors,” said Immelt. “Could your method apply?” Yes, said Rogers, but when the...
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- 01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
innovation in the MBA Program, such as the field method and HBX, the School's new online education platform. Intellectual Ambition—Pursuing cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration, generating important and relevant scholarly work focused...
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Educational Services
- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
a better businessperson and leader, but I think what was most impactful from my time at HBS was the case method itself. After two years of cold-calls, cases, and classroom discussion, I feel much more confident taking a position and...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
of business, and it taught me how to think as a businessperson,” says Fisher. “The case-study method is fantastic at making you assess all the factors you have to deal with. It says, Here’s the situation; what’s the action plan? And...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
receive a considerable amount of my information and photos via e-mail from classmates, usually soon after a new Bulletin comes out, and people see my e-mail address," reports 1993 Section E cocorrespondent Julia Leung Chin. Many of the older class correspondents prefer...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." "It's a way of thinking...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap
"The professors at Harvard don't try to tell us how to run our schools like a business. They push us to consider possible applications of business models and methods in our work, but they understand that the organizational complexities we...
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- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
you to be your most confident self. And how that manifests itself in our teaching philosophy, in the content that we've been building with our accent coaches, the method that they use is one of accent acquisition rather than accent...
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- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
all comes together. “I also rely on tools I learned in the Marine Corps to empower my team members to excel in their jobs without micromanaging them. I believe in setting expectations and milestones and then letting people work within their own style and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
to avoid notice, and makeshift printing machines. As students of the sciences, the ink-smudged underground printers of Mikrus were not content with the samizdat method of reproducing leaflets, so they built their own more efficient...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
approach present? Is there an underlying logic and method to his approach that, well beyond the diplomacy of the 1970s, offers practical guidance for meeting today’s negotiation challenges—from diplomacy to business, finance, and law? By...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
compensation committees have focused on them without thinking hard about alternatives. Expensing, I think, would actually liberate companies by enabling them to choose among a variety of compensation methods they've heretofore been...
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Garry Emmons