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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
direct lesson about economic policy from that period for a couple of reasons. For one thing, as the country has grown richer and our capacity to deal with some of these problems has increased, our tolerance for loss of life is lower—as it... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
want to do. That model is the basis for many use cases. Is my policy in compliance? What’s the pathway from here to there? Is it protected, is it encrypted, whatever it is? And then the measurement. This is something we innovated a couple... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
the time. I had just come off of two years in investment banking. I had always been fairly active in terms of exercise and running. In fact, I was training for a couple half marathons, which soon turned into marathon training at the time.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
successfully devote itself to providing objective advice and solutions to companies experiencing management problems. In 1933 Bower joined a small Chicago firm of "management engineers," a phrase coined by the firm's founder and namesake, James O. McKinsey. When... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
couple of weeks ago, saying how their portfolio needs to be adjusted to be climate change resilient. Or it is Shell, who have committed themselves to a net zero emissions energy future, by the middle of the century. Or a multitude of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
Arthur flour is hailed by famous chefs such as Julia Child and Graham Kerr for its superior quality. Of the company's exacting standards, Sands noted, "A couple of years ago, we shipped back eleven freight cars of flour because it was... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
and a half years, two years in New York and then a couple years in Los Angeles. And it was a wonderful first place to work. Very tough place to work in terms of hours and things like that. And we had decided to live in suburban New... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
use digital tools to take the friction out of bringing together a diverse set of people to co-create and iterate. That became OpenIDEO. We now have a couple hundred thousand people collaborating online for the social good. Most businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
couples who have everything. Marcus, who died last January at 96, was fond of saying, "I have the simplest taste: I am always satisfied with the best," the New York Times (January 23, 2002) recalled. After HBS, Marcus took that philosophy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
really intriguing,” Amabile continues. “Frans found that highly creative individuals often have degrees in widely disparate disciplines, were raised in two or more cultures or countries, or have work experience in a couple of unrelated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
—Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013) I will give the industry some credit and say that it has come around in the last couple of years. I launched RelayRides in the fall of my first semester at HBS, and it took me a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
field of customer engagement and on his community. In addition to HBS, he and Diane support many Dallas institutions, including the Dallas Zoo (the couple is pictured on the Brierley Giraffe Ridge), the Dallas Performing Arts Center,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
Behavior “We’ve thought deeply about creating a course that not only looks at different types of management challenges, but also suggests how to deal with those challenges based on your seniority in an organization,” Raffaelli says. “What does it mean to lead a change... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
Originally pursuing a career in law, during his first year at Harvard Law School he applied to the joint degree program with HBS at the last minute. “I discovered that I really enjoyed business school, and HBS opened up a whole range of possibilities for me,” he says.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
HBS answers came to me easiest and felt most natural. There were a couple of other schools that I didn't even bother with because the questions didn't feel right. (I'm thinking specifically of 'If you had to leave a time capsule for... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
consistent donors to the HBS Fund for many years and first gave out of gratitude for the benefits Ken received, and later to help preserve the School’s excellence. “I wanted to do what I could to help HBS remain a premier business school,” he explains. In the past... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
help others develop,” explains Hesham. “If you help someone become a better leader, that person can help 1,000 others.” That, the couple agree, is a worthwhile investment. View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
Africa within the space of a couple of weeks, Richard America (MBA ’63) appears upbeat and none the worse for jet lag. Dressed in a crisp suit and tie, the tall and affable Georgetown University Business School professor chats easily... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
It’s been a grim couple of weeks out there. Personally, I’ve had more déjà vu than I’ve seen in a long time, as Yogi Berra might have said, especially after losing a string of tough doubleheaders. My own sobering twin bill has consisted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
for Xbox and play games with her and Toedebusch, Bond says, “after they’ve done their homework and brushed their teeth and picked up their rooms and fed their lizard.” And the couple have continued the mission of looking at their careers... View Details