Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal

to invest outside the core market, because there is less noise, great founders are sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base.” Also: Denver-based Guild... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)

those two years getting more experience. The problem is that most people who hear that argument have only experienced a tiny fraction of the universe of career possibilities. I believe that the key to a View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

The Play's the Thing

weekly community-service visits to the old man for six months. "It's an arrangement neither of them is very happy with," Baron told the St. Petersburg Times (July 12, 2001), "but once they get to know each other a little better, they... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

the experience of having grown up in Africa and a desire to help solve the problem of unemployment among youth. Navid Rahimi, another classmate, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on entrepreneurship in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

30 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

post-graduation. Michael Rodriguez: Extending the search past graduation For Michael Rodriguez (MBA 2019), his post-graduation job offer came as an extension of the search he had begun before classes ended and continued through... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

is? Three days before, someone from the So-Cal Times-Perez, Barton now realized, or one of her flunkies-had called his East Coast office at Erlington Financial Group for a quote he'd been only too happy to provide. Anticipating a hopeful... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

Portrait Project

Valentina Zarya

ended in puberty, but my hair tells the real story. It’s been a dozen different colors over the years: Raven black during a goth phase in high school; varying shades of copper in college; and blonde to test the “they have more fun”... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Alumni Author

help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme centers on success and View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Portrait Project

Sally Aaron

Modern medical technology gave me a chance to be happy and healthy when I was young. I want to make sure others have the same chance and privilege. I was born with a dislocated hip that was saved only by modern medicine – it changed my... View Details

03 Nov 2020
News

One Paramount Priority

and focused on the wrong issues.” Almost no one is happy about it, by the way: All but 10 of 500 voters reported feeling distressed about the division. That said, Hessan reports that finding common ground might be easier than one would... View Details

Keywords: Government

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Commencement 2020 Address | About

the tenth and last time I will have the honor of speaking to a graduating class as Dean of this School as I plan to step down at the end of this year. This is certainly not how any of us had hoped to celebrate this occasion. But let’s set... View Details

Portrait Project

Preethi Krishnaswamy

The pencil rapped lightly on my head, a not-so-subtle reminder from dad that I had the wrong answer to the math problem at hand. Thoroughly annoyed, I scrunched my eyes and thought hard. Fractions danced behind my closed lids, one of them... View Details

Portrait Project

Leslie Feinzaig

life is unfair, and I know I am fortunate. So I try to be worthy of this fortune a little bit each day. I work hard to create value. I learn, and teach, cry passionately and laugh with gusto. I scour the world for the rarest of gems: wisdom, justice, View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2012
News

It’s a Small World

pleasures—which he defines as “free, simple, and universal”—and decided to create a website, 1000 Awesome Things, and post a new entry every weekday. He vowed that he would stop at 1,000, and so he did, authoring his final entry on April 19. “The View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

22 Jul 2014
Blog Post

From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice

“Umm ” The FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) curriculum provided me an incredible opportunity to learn leadership skills not only in the classroom, but also through practical experience in Ghana and in Boston. However, at the View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

an enormous premium relative to the core market, 200, 300, 400 percent, Apple's products, while still highly differentiated, have a very hard time selling at a huge premium relative to the core PC market. So problem number one is that PCs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the... View Details