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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
thatched-roof hut. GiveDirectly payments allowed him to buy building materials and livestock. The family now sleeps under an iron roof fitted with a solar panel and raises goats and cows. “My proudest achievement is that I now own several... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy big, sell small
conversations about layoffs and pay cuts we discussed in The Founder’s Journey course at HBS weren’t theoretical anymore. I wasn’t sleeping at night.” Scrambling for another small business–oriented tech startup idea—one that might take... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
corporate world when he was working his way up the ranks: mindfulness, stress resilience, sleep training, and emotional intelligence skills. “With ongoing change and disruption, the crisis business is now facing on a global scale is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Congress for the authority to take them over, it was granted without much debate. I’ve spoken to almost every lawmaker, regulator, and executive who might have influenced that decision, and none indicated they lost much sleep over the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
person. Many places have no roads and no shelters, and the porters often sleep outside or in communal rooms on benches. The Gokyu Lakes shelter will be CAN's third, providing the porters with both a protective resting place and medical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
occasional Saturday soccer game with cell phone at the ready. But for Dick Simon (MBA '80) , his wife, and three children, last year quality time meant — among other memorable adventures — camping together at 12,000 feet under a full moon on a snowfield in Bhutan,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Before working for our aquarium, she had been homeless for eighteen months, sleeping with her son on the floor of his daycare center while she searched for employment. So what then was my takeaway? I learned the family culture our company... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
great things.'" Even though she was too far along in her studies to do the joint JD/MBA program, Brochu decided to enroll at HBS anyway. One semester she took 10 classes, which, even by HBS standards, shows a lot of drive. "I've no idea how I did it. I didn't View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
screen. There have been a lot of lunches at the local café.” Road conditions: “When I’m traveling, I depend on my Whoop strap. It helps me be disciplined about my sleep and lets me know overall how my body is feeling—if I can exercise... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
"I've no idea how I did it. I didn't sleep much," she laughs. After graduation, Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Dealing with FOMO at HBS
as you can because there really is too much to choose from. You don’t necessarily need to choose between sleep, academics, and a social life I’ve heard people say this, but I don’t believe it. I get 8 hours of sleep a night, have a... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
talents? Photography and I can survive on about four hours of sleep a night–but that's more of a superpower than a talent. If you could have dinner with any three people (dead or alive) who would they be? Golda Meir, Nelson Mandela, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
safe and convenient to let somebody in your neighborhood rent your car. In terms of trust, I think that for many people it’s a big barrier to let a stranger drive off in their car or to let a stranger sleep in their house. In reality,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
variety of immersive experiences, they do share one through line: multisensory engagement. From a theater perspective, Sleep No More has been encouraging audiences to get up from their seats and join the theatrics—literally chasing actors... View Details
- Web
Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
discussion series. Managing for disruption “If you're going to be a disrupter, be a stealth disrupter. Defer revenue, don't be obvious you’re growing too fast. And don't do press or PR — No bragging! You don't want to wake the sleeping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
ago. There were multiple species of humans (nine in total), now only sapiens is left, and most humans have some Neanderthal DNA. Runners-up: Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker Range: Why Generalists... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
higher-priority decisions, such as buying a home or saving for a basement remodel, may be impacted Risk tolerance and risk capacity – Ensure that your decisions align with how well you want to be able to sleep at night. About Presidio... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different items such as customized and computerized wheelchairs, beds and bedside equipment, ambulatory aids, respiratory devices for patients with sleep disorders, and a revolutionary new system that enables emphysema patients and others... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities — such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities — that match those trends. Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working... View Details