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16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Gwill York’s (MBA 1984) parents were determined that their daughter would be practical and self-sufficient. As it turns out, they didn’t have to push too hard. At the age of nine, York started driving her family’s View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

of contract. "And there are usually financial incentives attached: Career prospects and bonuses ride on this contract—incentives for hitting the targets amount to as much as 97 percent of a U.S. manager's annual salary. "There's... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

team—and everything they owned was riding on Carter Racing having a successful season. But after their car had suffered engine failure in several of their last outings, BJ Carter has an hour to decide whether or not to risk their existing... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

upstarts like Uber and Zipcar are making it easier (and less expensive) to find alternatives to car ownership. Self-driving cars, which will one day become part of the rental/cab fleet, will be another impetus to put old Betsy up on the rack once and for all. Need a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Journal of Impact and ESG Investing Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter , Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz 01 JUN 2025 | Administrative Science... View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

entrepreneurship. Through Nucleate, a student-run biotech incubator, I met a PhD candidate at MIT with whom I have been exploring a tough tech venture for most of the last year. It’s a roller-coaster ride on so many levels, but I am... View Details

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

baseball players high on that list. Gazette: Sports gambling is now legal in most states. Massachusetts is expected to begin allowing it in early 2023. When people have money riding on games, they tend to pay closer attention to that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

20 Apr 2023
News

On the Move: Anand Kini (MBA 1997)

initiatives. What’s your morning, pre-work routine? I have to start the day off with some kind of exercise—whether that’s going for a run or getting on the Peloton. It helps set my body and mind in the right place. I then use the train View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an influential force in the oil fields. A... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Molly Welch

your favorite childhood memory? Riding home from school with my sisters in Cairo, listening to LFO. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My parents! They have a combined more than 50 years of public service... View Details

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Liz Plooster

bond. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A lawyer, largely because I wanted an excuse to wear fancy clothes. Little did I know we would end up working from home! What is your favorite childhood memory? Horseback trail View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

two years since, Ang and I have been on car rides around the world, from Marseille to Melbourne. And while they each have their place, nothing comes close to that magical night in Cupertino. Greg Hahn, Class of 2021 “Love is patient, Love... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

when. With facial recognition and infrared cameras, there can be time series data collected from your temperature and probably what was in the breaths you exhaled, captured over weeks and years, as you enter vestibules and ride... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

company badly needs a jolt of energy and expertise to grow and to resuscitate its declining stock price. The chief executive who promoted Barton is hopeful but hard-nosed; and Barton's IT group—while talented and tech-savvy—is impatient, even borderline dysfunctional.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Events - Private Capital Project

of the U.S. Small Business Administration, 2009-2013), and Frank Rotman (Founding Partner, QED Investors), moderated by Shai Bernstein (Harvard Business School) Riding the SPAC Wave March 17, 2021 “Riding the SPAC Wave” with Chris Ehrlich... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

he will cut back on his hours at Morgan Stanley in order to devote more time to some other important priorities, beginning, he says, with his family. For years, de Chazal's demanding workdays have been bracketed by lengthy train rides to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

like." Yet as car manufacturers, tech companies, and ride hailing services move forward with plans for deploying AVs, widespread deployment has been slow, primarily because AVs face a huge challenge: Many people are uneasy about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said.... View Details