Repair and Maintenance - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

on behalf of the dorms — I felt the experience was designed to remove worry about some of the minutiae and spend more time enjoying the experience. For instance, you get trash picked up daily and a full... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

A favorite topic of historians and palindrome fans alike, the Panama Canal has perpetually changed the international trade business. In their new book, The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

building means. It is a concrete (literally) manifestation of a fixed structure and thus hard to change from inside it. Buildings are metaphors for institutions, which are hard-and-fast conventions and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

The Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is a student-led club on campus for service members and veterans from all military branches and nations. The AFAA mission is to help talented veterans transition... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

roadmap, repaired relationships with key stakeholders, and placed a big bet on innovations in high performance computing and Artificial Intelligence to make AMD a tech... View Details

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

and repair in the factories to ensure the team could meet demand. I enjoyed this role because I was solving new, complex problems and learning every day. Did 2+2 change your... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Su’s turnaround and subsequent transformation of the technology company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). When Su accepted the top position in 2014, AMD was on the verge of collapse. Su focused the company’s culture, simplified its... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

lead employees to expend effort to increase their levels of passion, which negates the benefits the team provides. We first conducted an experience-sampling study at an engineering company involved in the production and View Details

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

maintenance of machinery; “We structured, structured, structured all aspects of execution.” As drill attempts continued to fail, one after another, Sougarret communicated gracefully with the families. Despite these failures, Sougarret... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

DEVELOPMENT Career Check-Up Jonathan Shepherd, Director of Corporate Relations, Career and Professional Development + More Info – Less Info You give your automobile regular maintenance check-ups, why not do... View Details

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

and maintenance of unethical behaviors." It probably doesn't help that many businesses try to thwart potential fraud by threatening employees with severe consequences—increasing stress View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

his office isn't as big as Jenny's. And he blames others when he screws up. Joe is an HNAP, or a high-need-for-achievement professional, according to Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong, who explores Joe's world of driven,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is... View Details

05 Jun 2023
What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

appreciated Jenny Odell’s thesis that “doing nothing” offers us several useful “tools,” including those of repair (personal reflection and recovery), “a sharpened ability to listen”—a critical resource in a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Find Past & Upcoming Events - Alumni

2005), you'll learn the benefits, principles, and process of establishing your unique personal brand. Apr 16 12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 16 Apr 2025 Career Check-Up You give your automobile regular maintenance... View Details

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

additional time in the cottage, and the buyer takes care of winter maintenance concerns. Win-win solutions like that could leave both parties better off than a straight cash deal. In academic circles, the... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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News - Research Computing Services

News News HBSGrid Maintenance 6/2: Full Shutdown 29 MAY 2025 This is a reminder that our next maintenance is scheduled for Monday, June 2, 8 am–12 pm ET . This will be a full shutdown for the HBSGrid compute... View Details

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

Learning to create an effective network, improve your interpersonal skills, access new information, and connect with important organizational stakeholders in this self-guided course. Resume Maintenance Make... View Details

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