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“Ethan Bernstein who's a a business school professor at Harvard in the organization Behavior side”
“he teaches whatever you know MBA students at at Harvard”
“she's now a professor at the Harvard Business School”
“Allison Woods Brooks She's at Harvard Business School”
MentionsGood Strategy, Bad Strategy
“was on the faculty of Harvard Business School”
“she's also got an MBA from Harvard Business School”
“i'm teaching at harvard i teach the second year mbas and their elective program product management”
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