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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an...
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Garry Emmons
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
contradictory to sound judgment. It only emphasizes it . Judgment is an encapsulation of all those elements data, facts, processes, etc that go into decisions from which we have learned in the past." Joe Schmid said: "Our education and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
COO and began a major restructuring of the 5,000-employee company. “It was hard,” he admits. “There were people who had been working at the company almost as long as I’d been alive. But I think I was able to gain their support because I...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:...
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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
still works out with former and current world champions at least five days a week at one of the martial arts academies he owns in Singapore. Sityodtong launched Evolve Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in 2009 as a response to an unanswered...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in...
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April White
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
with HBS Working Knowledge's Carla Tishler, Paine explains why this shift has occurred, and why now. Tishler: Your research on corporate values and ethics dates back to the 1980s, including much work done...
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by Carla Tishler
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC...
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- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
describes his journey to the Marine Corps as one inspired by his father’s immigrant roots and the events of 9/11. The story of his father’s emigration from Mexico to the suburbs of Los Angeles, and his work as a ranch hand while attending...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Schumpeterian entry, and Penrosian dynamics. A major goal of the paper is to identify important gaps in our theoretical and empirical knowledge that should be a focus for future scholarly research. Download View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
for these long-standing disparities.” For the past 20 years, Chandra has been examining differences in health outcomes between white and Black Americans, searching for solutions to shrink the gap. In a recent working paper published...
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- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
off technically difficult, sometimes dangerous, installations around the city. Their elaborate, thin-stroked graffiti incorporated German-, Gothic-, and Old English-style lettering, and was influenced by the Czech graphic artist and painter Alphonse Mucha, View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
clear-headed adviser,” Eisenmann adds. “They’ve probably been doing the lion’s share of keeping the household on the rails and caring for children while you’ve been working 100-hour weeks and ignoring the family. At some point, you’ll...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Above: Dowling at home in New York City: “There’s no one model for being a working parent.” Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) had built a successful career in leadership development and executive coaching at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the...
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April White
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
In India’s rural villages, social norms dictate that women are to remain in the home, not out and about—and definitely not working. If a woman is seen working outside the home, her neighbors might think she’s a bad mother. They might also...
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by Julia Hanna
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
2022) & Calvin Natanael (MBA 2023) Calvin and I met when we were around five years old in Indonesia. We shared the same piano teacher, and I recall occasionally bumping into Calvin in the corridor. I would consider him an acquaintance...
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- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
was the first time I came to appreciate the emotional toll of building a product and the deep joy that comes from finding customers who love it. I recalled fondly that while working at Blue Apron I had the...
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- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
Tell us about your life before HBS. I grew up in Antwerp, Belgium as part of the Jewish community. Having four grandparents who are Holocaust survivors, I felt it was important to experience life in Israel, and so, after taking a gap...
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