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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
freedom to listen and weigh in with real honesty and experience than those planning lifelong Washington careers.” Braun, whose legislative priorities include job creation, defense spending, and debt reduction, serves on several Senate committees, among them the View Details
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
major pension providers where his savings were stowed. It was hard to pry even basic information from them, he says. Instead they channeled his calls through financial advisors, who pitched costly services. The more he prodded for...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
just advantage. It's about recognizing that others will have their own perceptions about us, right or wrong. When you recognize the power in those perceptions and flip them in your favor, you create an edge—and your View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
status quo isn’t working for those without power and privilege, Mendu, a 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow, believes “the more fortunate among us have a deep obligation to disrupt it.” Her HBS mentors included former United States Small...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
to HBS faculty member involved relating to former professors and mentors as colleagues. "I had a hard time calling them by their first names," she says. Now the William L. White Professor of Business Administration and a senior associate...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
underestimate our ability to make more out of those we have .Stretching is a learned set of attitudes and skills that comes from a simple but powerful shift from wanting more resources to embracing and acting on the possibilities of our...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
lot of hard work, it gradually turned into a department store," Barron explains. "He treated people fairly and was well-respected. I think I gained a more positive view of business than others in my generation because I saw how a small...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
these large institutions is too powerful for one leader to overcome within the limited time frame of tenure—a finding that could apply to other organizations as well. Sadun is hopeful this evidence will influence hospitals to rethink...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
selection," wrote Daniel A. Shanoff (HBS '02) in the September 17 edition. "We sweated the early-term cold call. The common metaphor we all bank on— that HBS is our own little oasis away from the 'real world'— was pierced. It's hard to...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
that I would never make that mistake again and that I would do everything in my power to help the people around me avoid making that mistake. That's really what motivated me to write Radical Candor and come up with a framework and to be...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
interesting things—making great strides, building big companies, and working on hard problems.” In the early days of the tech industry, many women worked as coders. The number of women in computer science began to decrease after 1985....
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April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic between male investors and female entrepreneurs seeking their funding. Looking to the crowd liberates companies from having to navigate an often-noxious View Details
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
seeking cheaper labor, at home and abroad, is corporate America shooting itself in the foot? Never before has America competed on the basis of having a low-paid workforce. American workers' purchasing power is now lower than that of...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
succeed,” she says. “Treating them with respect is crucial.” The recipient of numerous honors (including the HBS Alumni Achievement Award in 1998), Fudge has been named one of the “Ten Most Powerful Black Women” by Ebony magazine and has...
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- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
Watson’s superhuman powers can send mixed messages. Technology, once welcomed for freeing people from drudgery and backbreaking labor, is so powerful and its innovations so swift and relentless that mere...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
won't have anything to do with me. I didn't know at all that it was going to be destructive as it was. No one gave me any kind of warning. I wished they had. But the fact you start, there's just no stopping. You'll do anything. It's a real View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
plan can be a model. But he thinks it should be looked at on a state-by-state basis — rather than as a one-size-fits-all, federally funded, mandated national plan — to accommodate the particular circumstances of each state. And he warns that even though Massachusetts...
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