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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
challenges in building the operation was that the lack of existing models simply made it hard to explain. “People had prototypes for foundations. And they had prototypes for VC funds. This was neither.” Now seven years after Lake Como—and countless numbers of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
units a year, but back when volumes were small, one full container of product would be everything I would have to sell for a quarter. And I had an entire container of goods that came damaged. I had to call up the customers who I fought so hard to get and say, “I’m so... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
sector are doing their part to accelerate startup activity for founders across the board. Many also believe the 2011 revolution was an additional catalyst. Business, they maintain, is the outlet by which creativity can currently find its fullest expression and support... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
their experiences since leaving HBS. The Bulletin caught up with five of these graduates long enough to sketch brief profiles; candid snapshots of other reunion moments complete our portrait of a memorable weekend. Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA '93) Described in a recent... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
to overhaul the corporate-tax code,” the Wall Street Journal reported. While the Journal wasn’t able to ferret out details of Treasury’s thinking, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen, chairman emeritus of MFS... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
total) and presents them in audio form, narrated by one of several professional readers. For any busy person who loves great journalism from a range of sources it is a godsend: I often listen to articles while traveling, commuting,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
“Billions of dollars in research funding is pouring into the space. We have tools that are unprecedented in their power, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their cost. The number of neuroscience articles published in academic View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2007), Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton (MBA ’87) declared that from his perspective “the global economy in general — and the entertainment business... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
didn’t have time to read all the articles in medical journals that might help them make better diagnoses and prognoses, not with the proliferation of academic journals reportedly publishing articles at a... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 Nov 2018
- News
The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner
Ultramarathoner Eric Spector (MBA 1972) got a late start on the sport. As detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Spector started running while living in Manhattan, competing in his first New York City Marathon in 1979, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
among others. Opening up participation to nontraditional actors resulted in the sort of truly novel perspectives that can lead to breakthroughs in an established field of research. Often the complaint in academia is that our research is trapped in View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
A Match Made in Heaven
1993 where he watched admiringly as Roper deftly managed a social encounter involving a former girlfriend, according to the Boston Business Journal (February 23-March 1, 2001). “You go to Harvard and you realize smart people are a dime a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
everything to try to escape to freedom. “That experience,” she recalls, “made me passionate about the effects political and economic policy decisions have on individuals’ rights and opportunities.” Choi worked as a Wall Street Journal... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
businesses, he began drinking heavily and eventually lost it all,” the Albuquerque Journal (December 7, 2000) reported. Cordova said that he wound up “high-class homeless — that means I lived in a van.” Later, he learned about RS&VP, a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
Yoffie added that in the near future, "we won't be talking about Internet companies as something distinct because the Net will be so integrated into everything we do." That integration, panelist Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal... View Details