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24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts

find ways to while doing that, celebrate others. I mean, isn't this about service? Isn't legacy about how well we served? I think at least it's a component of it. And so, when the final chapter is written, I think it's important, perhaps,... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2010, Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) was teaching a course he developed at HBS called Founder’s Dilemmas, which focused on the challenges that young startups face.... View Details

15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI

what is being created, are things that want to do evil in the world. That being said, certainly these are powerful tools that can be used for evil. I would say the same is true of many other technologies that have been developed over... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

on Iraq. For the Japanese in the room, it’s a sobering reminder of how war, and its aftermath, can affect a country and its people for decades. For the American, it indicates a clear need for political change. When her two-year commitment... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Howard, Fitzhugh joined Pepsi in 1965, where he developed the first marketing efforts directed at African Americans. Credited with creating the concept of targeted marketing, he also attracted and mentored black executives and created two... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

advancement more difficult. A 2013 survey of HBS alumni explored this question in greater detail, finding that a majority of both men and women had made at least one accommodation to integrate their professional and family lives,... View Details

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we pivoted and developed some of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

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