Life Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

A Binary Formula

tomorrow’s transformative companies will have their greatest impact not in the material world but on the most basic elements of the human experience of life — health, physical well-being, and mortality. For... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the... View Details

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

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

study of the market for federal judicial law clerks conducted in 1998-2000, we have broadly surveyed both federal appellate judges and law students about their experiences of the new market for law clerks. This article analyzes our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

eventually use our platform in order to make an impact. 2. Take advantage of opportunities to work with non-MBAs We are incredibly lucky to spend our first year talking about challenges in life and business with 94 smart, funny, candid,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

18 Apr 2022
News

Book Smart

technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

guests a year in a wide array of yoga, meditation, and other health and wellness programs. "It's a safe and sacred place where people can come - regardless of their religious background - to unwind from the stresses of the world and View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)

turning point in my life has put me on an unexpected path. I came to HBS as a student after serving in Korea as a missionary for the Mormon Church. That experience had left me eager for a career that would... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

between broad foreign experiences and immoral behavior was robust across a variety of cultural populations (anglophone, francophone), life stages (high school students, university students, MBA students,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Blog

When Generations Learn Together

What happens when a father and son team up to attend executive education programs together? Bracken Seaberg (BS) and Jim Seaberg (JS) discuss their shared experiences in Private Equity and Venture Capital and Changing the Game:... View Details

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

climate change, and economic resource nationalism. Readers will learn how risk management is being transformed from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being... View Details

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

curated life. Growing up in a military base, extremely safe, extremely secure, you knew pretty much all your neighbors. Run around town and be out at night, playing around at 9, 10 PM—got in trouble a few times for that. But most of my View Details

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

seeing real innovation in business, not in products but in what business does." Economic Facts Of Life There are three key characteristics of information technology markets—three economic facts of life, said Upton, that can help show... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

out, are often underestimated and even overlooked, but they all display an inner strength that wins the day. For Marcelo, a young woman born in the Philippines, the road to entrepreneurial success was marked by moments of doubt from skeptics and View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Back at the Ranch

to do this work, so whether we’re building fences or moving pallets of minerals or taking care of cattle, we try to give them a ton of free manpower. In return, we get a lot of knowledge and experience that’s super valuable,” Minden says.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

Web

Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar Tractor Co. General File Industrial... View Details

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The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog The Arts of Communication Course Number 7515 HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Candace Bertotti Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 2-hour sessions ---Please Read Before Enrolling--- My goal: to create and deliver a valuable and extraordinary learning... View Details

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Affinity Groups | Employment

Affinity Group LatinXAffinityGroup@groups.hbs.edu Employee Resource Groups, Harvard University The Harvard University Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to promote equal opportunity, awareness, and understanding of Harvard’s rich and diverse community, centering on... View Details

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

things done in real life or not. The authors of a recently published book, Execution, perhaps unintentionally suggest the nature of the challenge. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan converse about a treatise based on their many years of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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