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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
playground—if it is balanced then the two children on either end are just dangling. There is no energy. And when it is balanced each side is in the middle or average. I have no desire to be an average mom, average wife, or average CEO. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
districts, and the development of specific strategic improvement plans for the coming year. Each team brings a real-world "problem of practice" to tackle at the session and leaves at the end of the week with specific action steps.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
ship to launch and recover the submersible. He found a decommissioned US Navy ship laid up in a river in Washington State. The USNS Indomitable was originally built to hunt Soviet submarines at the end of the Cold War and was then used by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
problems and opportunities they will face as entrepreneurs and, second, by communicating our findings effectively to entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and policymakers." Special Satisfaction A pivotal phase in the success of any... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
notions of wastefulness; it’s a meaningful end in itself that can inspire greater happiness and ultimately boost productivity. Be sure to reflect. “Make time and space to consider what quality time means to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
underestimates the scale of the problem because those are only the ones we know about,” Savova says. The situation will be exacerbated by job losses associated with the COVID crisis this year, leading to more than 20 million abandoned... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
think, made me want to give in a more intense way, which is why I ended up working with a nonprofit for a year—kind of dedicating a year of my life on that. I also think, from a concrete perspective, just stepping away from the pace and... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
and in her family life. “It’s a fascinating theory and one I think about a lot, in terms of how it potentially applies within Pharma,” she said. “What inspires me most about Clay though is how he has applied this same theory to how to live a View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
able to look at whether there’s water in the pool and everything else that’s prepared for them to go and do it. The other end of the extreme, we have the analytic and cautious. The ones who could be founders, could excel at that founding,... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
I live in the Bay area. I love to get out and run, and bike, and hike, and I think that those are kind of the real kind of head-clearing opportunities and yeah I have a lot of revelations in long showers. My wife isn't super happy about,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
any potential appearance of conflict of interest) are past contest participants. Exchange.com’s Stig Leschly comments on what he is looking for as a judge: “A team’s résumé is important, but it’s relevant to just a fraction of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
The sole ownership model made a lot of sense for Apple early on, Andersen notes, but the collaborative Windows approach enabled Microsoft to become bigger, quicker. “Within AGR there’s this notion that you don’t want to share a ton of this data, but there’s also a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
electronic ink — not end products,” Wilcox says, “and we bet everything that electronic publishing would become a big industry.” The move came too late, and by January 2004, the remaining technical issues had exhausted the last of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
the effect we have on the people who pay the tax, as well as the tax they pay. Both are important. What are the dimensions of this turnaround challenge? Every system, top to bottom, has to be reengineered. Our most fundamental problem is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
it’s so important to follow your passion. In this business, you can create something that will bring insight, inspiration, and happiness to people. When I first came to the United States in 1989, there was no email. And I was very, very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
If there were ever any doubts that HBS graduates would travel to the ends of the earth to reestablish their ties to the School, those doubts can now be put to rest. Although the venue required at least a ten-hour flight for most... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
important to surround yourself with the best people who are different from you; diversity matters not just in terms of gender or ethnicity, but also in how people think about problems and their solutions. HBS taught me to nurture healthy... View Details