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- 07 Nov 2017
- News
Best Business Books 2017: Narratives
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Offerings: “It’s one thing to write a book; a film feels even more public. But then I decided to just have fun with it.” [music] In the same vein, Kim, a diehard Yankees fan, hasn’t given up on his dream of owning a professional baseball... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Amy Chu (Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Ant-Man, Iron Man) and Alexander Chang and illustrated by Louie Chin (Bodega Cat), shares this important and dynamic part of the American experience in an accessible and engaging graphic novel format. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
fictional, the descriptive events bear such close resemblance to reality that the reader is left with an informed perspective on the people, the culture, and the day-to-day business realities within China.” When asked what motivated him to View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
Realizing that this window of opportunity might never occur again, she made a New Year’s resolution to hammer out 1,000 words a day until a novel emerged. Wang then accomplished the rare feat of landing a major book deal with her first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Year in Books 2016
From journalists writing bestsellers to professors penning fables to venture capitalists publishing first novels, HBS alumni have produced more than 80 books this year. Taken together, they show the community’s wide-ranging... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
greatest wizard of all time. Although Barron's novels are generally found in the science fiction or young adult sections of bookstores, his intentions transcend such categories. "I'm writing for thoughtful... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
through the purgatory of refugee status, they found asylum in Oklahoma. Nayeri went on to earn a BA at Princeton, an MBA and MEd at Harvard, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The author of two previous novels (Refuge and A... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
director at Netflix. Writing a novel while working full-time is no small task. How did you do it? When you’re the parent of young children, the hours that are your own become fewer and fewer. You learn to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
transfer, but also all the novel recombinations that come from migrants working with locals.” Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) But Choudhury also observed the many obstacles that can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
HBR articles. Can you tell us about your career as a novelist? I hate to talk about it. Briefly, after I had my first son, I wrote a novel and sold the movie rights. I then got a contract to write two more... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
Otis Graham, the author of thirteen works of nonfiction, Thomas-Graham set her sights on writing a mystery novel set at Harvard. In 1998, Simon & Schuster published A Darker Shade of Crimson, followed by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
final revenues, with a formula to disburse the ultimate profits. In this way, the partners were able to focus first on the total value chain and, only after that, on the division of profits,” writes Gomes-Casseres. The final chapter is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lincoln Electric Company, from the brink of financial ruin to record sales and profits. The book is full of out-of-the-box ideas, shrewd business wisdom, and unorthodox techniques. As Hastings stated, “I didn’t write this book to teach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
side of the individual. Reading short stories helps me in writing cases. I also plan to read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. What format do you use for reading? I’ll likely read Carver in hard copy and Franzen on my iPad. Hard copy has a... View Details