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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
decision? FL: Well, I had been up to my ears fighting the unions, and I really got to the point of thinking that there was life outside the airline business. The unions had done a very good job of painting me out to be a tough guy. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day, Lhota thought, as beautiful as any the city ever sees. After seven years in the Giuliani administration, including service as the city's budget director, Lhota, the deputy mayor for operations, was becoming more conscious of each passing day. His View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
in and turn the tables on things,” Herp says with a smile during an interview at the offices of Linear Air, an air-taxi service based in Concord, Massachusetts. “Just ask my wife and kids.” As VLJs were being developed, Herp, his e-Dialog... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
that your survey found that 70% of working parents call work-life balance a "non-negotiable" when they're job hunting. So are you seeing businesses respond to the pressure that their employees are feeling? SK: We are. I think that... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the disaster relief organization All... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
that we do at HBR — I edited; I acquired an article; I spoke with authors; I wrote the beginning of the list article; I did a few employee reviews; I interviewed a candidate for a job. I sang “Down in the Valley” to an editor who is in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job training for nearby... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond me! Liesl Pike Moldow’s (MBA ’93) “My Real Career” deserves praise for honesty and love. In the future I will look to my copy of the Bulletin for more than class news. Mike Smedley (AMP 50, 1966) Leamington, England One-Sided Picture Presented Your March View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
space. We have to figure out the places that are critical to progress where people aren’t working. That’s where we will have the most impact.” Gayle Lemmon: Life Stories RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE: Lemmon in California. Lemmon in Afghanistan, View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
do you have for current HBS students interested in pursuing a career in your field? Pradhan: “Force yourself to be an outbound person and spend time researching and getting to know people at various private equity or investment firms. The downside of recruiting for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
reporting them in an open, supportive work environment. The survey's findings were further supported in observing and interviewing hospital employees on the job. In the unit with the highest detected error rate (unbeknownst to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
of the questions that Gayle explores in this provocative examination of racial and ethnic identity. By delving into the history and interviewing Black Creeks who are fighting to have their citizenship reinstated, he lays bare the racism... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
for newly minted MBAs. Jeremy Andrus (MBA 2002) certainly does. Upon graduation, with no job offers, Andrus decamped to his parents’ basement in Park City, Utah, to regroup. He then agreed to an interview... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
people’s lives.” — GE Forsan Hussein The Business of Peace Hussein In the summer of 1998, while working as a fellow with an Israeli human-rights organization, Brandeis student Forsan Hussein interviewed a young Palestinian whose West Bank... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
herself in awe of their grace under such trying circumstances. “I would go to their homes—huts called bhunga—to interview them and they would offer me a cup of chai. I’d say, ‘No, thank you’ and they would go pay for a bottle of Coke. I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
or taking a job in a new company, you might not know all the unspoken rules that determine who gets ahead and who doesn’t. In Unspoken Rules, you’ll learn the basic workplace skills necessary for success. Over the last four years, Gorick... View Details