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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
single-handedly take credit for the resurgence in board games,” jokes Furlong, “but that’s probably a little presumptuous.” He does, however, believe that Cranium’s success has made an impact on the market. “We have developed a solid... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
like for you as an artist in these socially distant corona-times? Madame Gandhi: I think in the producer community, the sort of ongoing joke is that we’ve been preparing for this moment our whole life. I think the solitude of being in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
a little bit pickled red cabbage, which is a little bit of a joke I don’t think anybody’s gotten. It’s a cabbage two ways, Brussels sprouts and cabbage are both sort of in the same family there. And then we have some hazelnuts, toasted... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
years of acquired expertise, planning the Olympics is a novel experience in many ways. "A lot of this kind of work is new to us," he says. "The athletes, the sponsors, the broadcasters - they all seem to be old hands at this business. Around my office, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
industries like software. “Industry is not destiny.” Take the airline business, for example, which, over its history, has an accumulated net loss in the billions—a classic B-school example of a structurally unattractive industry. A joke... View Details
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Jason A. Kilar
electrical engineer who worked for Westinghouse. His entire side of the family was about technology and science. On the other side, I had this crazy mom who was trying to kill ‘em in the aisles with jokes about our lives. She wrote a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
talked about pymetrics, and the joke has always been, oh, my God, I'm going to take it, and it's going to tell me I'm good for nothing, right? So what it's taught me is that that's actually true, that people range greatly in their... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
customer. All the aspects of the profession that had to do with promoting change and overcoming resistance made the figure of the salesperson popular to fiction writers—and most of the characterizations have been negative, from jokes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Custom Home and a Web site (www.ownerbuilderbook.com) for owner-builders. After losing money for four years and just breaking even in the fifth, Smith jokes that this year, “there may not be a way to avoid it — we might just turn a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. What’s more, the meetings are often poorly timed, badly run, or both. We can all joke about how painful they are, say the authors, but that pain has real consequences for teams and organizations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
A. Bartlett, and Peter Moran. "One of the hikers immediately reaches for his running shoes. 'You cannot outrun a tiger,' reminds his partner. "'Yes,' he responds, but all I have to do is outrun you.'" That little tale may make for a good View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Fisher’s third liquid asset. She and Koch had been married for 18 years when she joined his company’s board, yet she jokes that he says, “I’m off the clock” when it comes to discussing business at home. Still, they do occasionally talk... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
becoming an engineer, a course he pursued at the University of Virginia. He now jokes about how he “moonlighted” as an engineering student while pursuing his passion for the theater and community service. Upon graduation, Williams knew he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was president of his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? Some insiders joke that any time MBAs pile into a field, it’s a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
remember. His curiosity about the world and his intense pursuit of answers is so deeply ingrained Vescovo jokes that the impulse is in his genes. (Indeed, science has recently discovered several gene variants that seem more prevalent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
was taken with the opening of Fab 3 in Livermore, California, in April 1973. It was here that the now familiar “bunny suit” was introduced. “The bunny suits and the whole routine were a huge joke around the company for years,” according... View Details