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16 Feb 2011
News

Healthy Growth

the customer and to innovation” than he was in his previous job as president of Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies. He also relishes being “pure play” in one industry—animal health—which he describes as “a target-rich... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

panic rise, his wife, sitting in the passenger seat, said calmly: “It’s going to be fine. Just relax. Exhale. Keep your eyes on the road.” The scare was eye-opening for Margolis, perhaps because it occurred when the United View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

their former oppressors. Instead, Mandela invited the warden of his Robben Island prison to his inauguration as South Africa's first black president. Modern South Africa, for all its problems, is a democratic state with a growing economy.... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

04 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

and the HBS conference as a major step forward in his water journey, even though, he said, specific discussion about water issues were limited. During a lively case discussion led by HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, he came away thinking: “Miami is the most at-risk... View Details

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

be ineffective, since nothing in this legislation or prior law prevents banks from proprietary trading outside the United States. Another instance of poor regulatory design is the new Consumer Financial Products Commission (CFPC). The... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

chronic work stress, while only 36 percent reported their employers provided adequate support to manage it. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some 6.7 percent of American adults experience "major depressive disorder; antidepressants are the most... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

Profile

Lily Wu

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? HBS is such a unique place where intelligent and hard-working people meet and congregate to build amazing things and create magic. It was important to me personally that I reimagine different possibilities early in my... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Ahmed Eldemerdash

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I think it is a great opportunity for both learning and personal development and also to boost my career aspirations. The people here at HBS, the case method and the different ways to learn and practice what we learn,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Zayed Muhammed Yasin

Zayed Yasin spent his summer internship in a location most people would envy: Mayaguana, a small island in the Bahamas. Unfortunately, he was too absorbed in constructing an emergency services site—a project that combined his undergraduate degree in engineering with... View Details

Portrait Project

Zachary Surak

My palms were sweaty. My heart raced. A million questions flew through my mind. Did I do well enough to get in? Would they even want someone like me? I was about to meet my high school guidance counselor to begin crafting a path to my higher education nirvana. It just... View Details

Portrait Project

Zhongjue (Drew) Chen

I remember feeling completely out of place standing in front of a roomful of curious British classmates. My heart pounded and my flushed face beat red as I tried to introduce myself in broken English. It was some ten years ago. I had just left the familiar scene of... View Details

Portrait Project

Zubby Achara

It’s April 6th, 2017. I’m in my dimly lit apartment. Before me is a knife and a disinfectant. I can’t decide which of the two is the more efficient tool to ease me into the afterlife. Until then, I’d been the dream child, with stellar grades and a prestigious career. A... View Details

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Xue (Ken) Yuan

In China, Xue Yuan earned an undergrad degree in environmental engineering and graduate degrees in advanced polymer chemistry. “But spending eight hours a day, seven days a week in a research lab was not what I wanted to do with my life,” says Xue. Changing gears, he... View Details

Portrait Project

Xiao Wang

I will make dreams come true. No, I cannot make you fly or find true love. But I can help with the goals that we set for ourselves every New Year's Day - that this is the year I will become fitter, feel more energized, and live a healthier life. One of the most... View Details

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Whitney Wilson

Whitney Wilson began her career in international development, assuming a role with the American Chamber of Commerce in Jordan during the midst of the Arab Spring. “I was introduced to CEOs involved in international trade,” Whitney says. “Through them, I was exposed to... View Details

Portrait Project

Wei Su

I don't have a firm belief in next life, although would not mind having one. Just in case this life is the only chance... My goal in life is a simple two-fold: make my country strong and my family happy. I never believe in living for myself. When I was young, my family... View Details

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Wilson Kyi

Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and alloy wheels. I experienced... View Details

Portrait Project

Victoria Song

I will master my own destiny. As a young child, I took note of the sharp contrast between the standards that existed for boys and girls in my stoic, conservative family. My brother was encouraged to speak his mind, to defend himself, to take on the world. No one ever... View Details

Portrait Project

Veronica Pinchin

I learned about hard work from my father, who learned about it from his. For 70 years, Vic Pinchin worked the land on his farm in Streetsville, Ontario. Over the years, seasons of lifting bushels of apples onto his rusty trailer bent his body almost in two. During my... View Details

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Vivek Garg

Right out of college, Vivek Garg was directly exposed to difficult health-care policy issues. As part of Congress's Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MPAC), Vivek reviewed the coordination of policies and payments. "Many doctors are reluctant to acknowledge the... View Details

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