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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
question we’re trying to answer.” It was the HBS guy saying that. Consulting is very similar to journalism, because you go into a new situation or a new company and try to figure out what makes a place tick. It’s like the blind person...
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- 20 Sep 2017
- News
Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
unemployment has been hovering at historic lows; in April, it sank to 3.4 percent, a figure not seen since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. US Chamber of Commerce analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the first part...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
residential buyers make informed decisions in similar circumstances, Kennealey concluded. So he launched Nester in the beginning of 2023. The service projects 15 years’ worth of maintenance and repair costs based on data points found...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls....
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
for Educational Opportunity changed her mind. The program, which offers educational and career support to students from underserved communities, helped Harris realize something: she loved finance. “I was 19 years old and there I was, actually working on View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
effective business life," they write in the book's preface. "In most cases, it is not." In their analysis of this separation between spirituality and work, Nash, a senior research fellow at HBS, and McLennan, a Unitarian Universalist...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
In a previous study of companies in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Deshpandé and colleagues from Tuck found that the most successful firms in these diverse countries had remarkably similar corporate...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
each time we added seats, average attendance and contributions increased. I made a cash-flow analysis and revenue projections that helped lenders understand our business model. We’re now able to negotiate and secure reasonable financial...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants - in similar positions in a broad range of businesses. Offered for the second time last spring, TGM brought together 43 senior-level general managers from more than a dozen countries, representing industries such as mining,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the...
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Deborah Blagg;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a CEO alumnus, Aligning the Stars...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
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 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
“connected wellness,” with the lamp as the starting point and shown as a sleep aid rather than smart lighting. Ario can assess co-branding the device with players that have established a value proposition around sleep or wellness (e.g., mattress companies or hotels)...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
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
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee maker, and analysis of cost,...
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