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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
fictional account, although told in the first person of growing up wealthy, dysfunctional in Beverly Hills, California. I grew up not there, but near there and right around that same period. And the level of detail around places and what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
conversation; “Nature and Our Planet” spans everything from climate change to gardening. The adult fiction section features authors from a diverse array of backgrounds, and half of the store is dedicated to children’s books, something... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Fall Reunions
Members of the Class of 1977 were treated to a special presentation by Professor Joe Badaracco on "The Moral Leader: Fiction As a Lens on Leadership". Photography by Stuart Cahill, C.J. Gunther, and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons. More than twelve... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
something,” he explained. “I couldn’t do sculpture or drawing on the road, but I could write.” The idea for a novel came to him one day in a Beijing bookstore when he discovered a paucity of fiction titles about China written for an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
Alumni Explore Challenge of Digital Shift More than 80 alumni around the world attended the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s Virtual Roundtable (VRT), “Digital Transformation – Facts, Fiction and Beliefs” via Webex on March 24.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
the Bible, and Wheel of Fortune. Here, just two of the artists, philosophers, fictional characters, and others who make cameo appearances in this guide to finance and the good life: (Getty Images/Bettmann) (Getty Images/Bettmann) Wallace... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
greatest wizard of all time. Although Barron's novels are generally found in the science fiction or young adult sections of bookstores, his intentions transcend such categories. "I'm writing for thoughtful people of all ages, people who... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Last Look
identify this photo as related to the Business Game competition. But what students, and when? Demer, who says it’s the 1960s, recalls that the game required small groups of students to make key budget decisions and “balance marketing, R&D, and other expenditures” for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Tsai’s (MBA 1989) Napa winery, Moone-Tsai. THE SAMURAI: Tōru “Decades of business memos” led Stephanie Spong (MBA 1992) to embrace the “freedom of fictional storytelling” under the pseudonym Stephanie R. Sorensen. Her first novel, Tōru:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction writing a full-time pursuit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
areas, named holes, pools, and more. Fiction The Phantom Planet by Brian Backus (MBA 1999) (CreateSpace) In this colorfully illustrated book for readers ages 7 to 12, the peaceful world of the Kreechurs turns upside down when a wicked... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Bookshelf: “I read sci-fi and fantasy fiction with my 15-year-old son. We really enjoy anything by V. E. Schwab. There’s also a Scholomance series, by Naomi Novik, that we enjoyed—just imagine Hogwarts meets the Hunger Games.” Local... View Details
- 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 analysis of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
unquenchable appetite for growth and capital. You might remember this scene from 2010’s The Social Network: Movie clip That was a fictionalized telling of Facebook’s rise, but those numbers are real. Silicon Valley produced 32 unicorns in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and socialized violence. In this View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Solution: Move your phone to the basement, and avoid those (often regrettable) midnight emails. What do you do in this new dead time before bed? Read fiction from real books. Research shows fiction opens up... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
1977) (Logos Press) By focusing on three areas—vision, process, and output—managers can improve their performance and satisfaction within their businesses and in their personal lives. This book brackets management insights with a View Details