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- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
found valuable information from other sources. Firms with business partners or suppliers in China, for example, tried to distill the noisy signals emerging from these areas as quickly as possible to plan for safety in their plants. This...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
conditions and the paramount importance of doing the right thing—some leadership teams have committed themselves to two guiding principles: act now to protect and run the business today, and plan now to retool the business for the...
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- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
startups. And when the 2013 Boston Marathon was attacked, Weiss helped establish the One Fund within 24 hours to serve as a central pool for donations to victims. "The One Fund ended up channeling $60 million to survivors and to the View Details
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- 22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council...
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Margie Kelley
- 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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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
at the Center for Financial Planning Academic Research Conference for “Lazy Prices” with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Zoe B. Cullen : Winner of the 2019 Exemplary Applied Modeling Track Paper at the Association for Computing...
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Harvard Business School
wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the first African American tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)....
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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
celebration in different parts of the world. In recent years, the West has gone from championing China’s integration into the global economy to mitigating the economic risks associated with it. Developing countries are trying to make sense of China’s economic View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
humans are often irrational—and the fact that the logic of real-world decisions therefore sometimes flies in the face of established economic theory. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of behavior I see in the real world,” says...
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Being a Student Mom at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
Simon cautions, "First, recognize that this is a family trip, not just a trip for you and your spouse. It has to be oriented toward everyone. If you plan to have a great time with your kids, then it will...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
Joel Bines has a knack for inspiring others to take a chance on him. Time and again this hard-driving member of a close-knit Boston family has found himself succeeding in jobs for which he's had no prior experience. In each instance, he...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
plan might entail setting up a car wash, a truck haulage company, or a fast-food van. “PEP is a terrific program, and I would love to get even more involved,” Edis says. To that end, Edis, whose family has...
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- 26 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS
throughout the whole first year class. I love getting to see my new ANZ friends as well as meeting the other international students and, of course, spending time with the Americans. It’s a lot more international than I expected and I’ve loved that element of the...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
children, and Ray’s demanding travel schedule. To supervise my parents’ care, I relocated my family to Boston, five miles from their home, and Ray and I began commuting to our jobs in Manhattan. I soon discovered the challenges of aging...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. What do you think about the issue of flexible work hours?...
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Time management
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
crafted her business plan for Care.com, which she launched in 2006. Care.com brings together Marcelo’s passion for helping others and her entrepreneurial and management skills, to enable working families to...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
firm who is reconsidering his decision to take early retirement; an alumnus who wants to spend more time with his family after two years as a management consultant. Gardella envisions his primary role as that of a "facilitator," putting...
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Caroline Chauncey