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- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
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Margaret Regan
I am from a small southwest Louisiana town and grew up with ten siblings. My dad was a major source of inspiration and strength for me. My sense of myself was forged in my extended family. Did I think I would go to HBS when I was eight... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
applied in almost any business scenario. Throughout the four years in the program, you have the opportunity to pursue three different summer internships and explore various business and law opportunities. While the schools provide advice... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
that don’t turn up in their financial reports. So how is a consumer—or an investor or board of directors, for that matter—to know how well a purpose-driven company is really doing on any of these metrics? “The fact of the matter is that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore’s Business Times (April 9, 2011). “At that time, the civil service did not want me to do an MBA. There was always the fear that those who do MBAs will end up leaving the service. The system reacted against it; they said: ‘You do... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
advantage." Speed has also characterized Juliber's ascent up the corporate ladder. After helping to double sales and triple profits for CP's Asian operations in only three years, she was named chief technological officer for worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
3,600 when we arrived to up to north of 14,000 right now, and our sponsorship base is up about five times since we got here four short years ago. So you're talking about like a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS
HBS. HBS has a number of resources that will help students feel confident and well-equipped to handle all their classes. Current first-year student, Melanie Sperling, shared her experience learning accounting, finance, and analytics through the HBS Online CORe program... View Details
- Portrait Project
Amy MacBeath
calm and smiling, he encouraged me to raise my hand in class when I was apprehensive, cheered me up when I became frustrated, and inspired me to keep everything in perspective. I am not sure how I would have made it through the first... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
(via INSEAD.edu) In a wide-ranging interview for the St. Gallen’s Symposium, published by the Huffington Post, Dr. Olivier Giscard D’Estaing (MBA 1951) talks about the deep roots of HBS within the foundation of INSEAD, the European business school where he served many... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
professor left us with: “to increase the value of a call option, crank up the volatility.” At first, this doesn’t sound inspirational. Let me explain. When I arrived at HBS, after four years of building... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.
new role and making an impact on the sports industry from the front office. Posting Up on Wall Street Sports have been a part of Laitsas’ life for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the inner city of... View Details
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Preethi Krishnaswamy
math questions. I was lucky. The inner-city students I tutored many years later never had the privilege of a pencil tap to the head. In the daily struggle to make ends meet, academic achievement was a luxury, not a household priority. We... View Details
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Amy Reinhard
I can't stand sitting on the sidelines. I've always wanted to be in the game. When I was eight years old, I told my parents I wanted to play Little League baseball with the boys. Luckily, my parents didn't question my decision or my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
millions of dollars into research, and removed critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed in 2004, just weeks into his first year at... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) Bob Ryan (MBA 1970), the first in his family to attend college, has come a long way from his Detroit roots. When the former chief financial officer (CFO) of Medtronic set up a fellowship fund at HBS, he wanted to pay... View Details