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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
our alumni. We hope we can contribute to America and the world through this project. And we think it’s going to have a positive influence on the School. How are you tapping HBS alumni for ideas about competitiveness? Rivkin: HBS has about 78,000 alumni around the world... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
musician, entrepreneur: “I was buying some bananas from a 7/11 in Seoul, South Korea, when the email appeared in my inbox. I was with a dear friend of mine, Elliott Davis, who graduated from HBS in 2016. He gave me a huge hug and hearty... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
the air. But a producer emailed her back to assure it was in fact no mistake, and this past Friday, the Khalife sisters got to pitch their idea to Shark Tank's estimated 6.4 million viewers. On Monday morning, we talked to Donna about the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
gonna brainstorm, or I'm just gonna write, or I'm just gonna think about just one problem. So I put on the noise canceling headphones, set a timer, close the email app and just am able to focus in—just on that one thing. Lindsay Ronga:... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
headphones provided, and different chairs procured,” Fieldhouse said. Training sessions were developed to assist the autistic employees with life skills, such as travel planning, financial awareness and nutrition, as well as professional skills like organizational... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
about the expanded fellowship program that HBS had just announced. A few hours later, he received an email from the School saying he would receive a full-tuition fellowship for his second year. Bagala knew instantly what that would mean... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Many Dumb Things and What You Can Do About It by Steven A. Stanton (MBA 1984) (FCB Partners) Stanton argues that organizational transformation is needed when organizations are trapped in the status quo and employees are frantically busy with View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
ended up placing several players there, and within a matter of a couple years, all of a sudden I found that I had about three dozen players in maybe 10 different countries. And then calls started coming in. Remember, this is before emails... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
family, team, and business performance.” —Claudia Mirza (OPM 52, 2018) “I’ve learned so much! Replacing my morning commute with a leisurely breakfast changes the course of my entire day. Autonomy and remote flexibility are must-haves for me. Most meetings should be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
email continually, like, “Hey, my buddy would like to try writing comics.” It’s like saying you played baseball as a kid, so you want to try out for the Mets or the Yankees. It’s very difficult and highly competitive. And you do not get... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
ways. Some people might be more willing to give at a grocery store when they ask you to donate at the checkout counter. Other people might not give there but instead respond to a letter or email request. I think, rather than asking what... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Khan Academy might become very relevant in what was going on in the world. We got an email from a teacher in South Korea, telling us how he was using Khan Academy to keep his students learning during their nationwide school closures. And... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
experience with Bob, I got an email with the same article attached from about 10 different people at the company. It was about how people would rather have a boss who is really competent but kind of a jerk than one who's really... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
our business, we get a lot of emails and we deal with a lot of emails. And so being able to chart that and almost be able to celebrate as you able to just make small dents in the size of that inbox and get it down as close to zero as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
littered with papers and a full email in-box glaring at him from a flat-screen computer monitor, Marietta pauses for a moment to consider the bewildering array of tasks he has had to manage since coming to Pine Mountain. At no juncture,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Poland. The index, now the largest online database of Jewish vital records, can help genealogists quickly trace family ancestry back many generations, often to the 1700s. The site has been particularly invaluable in connecting people with family who may have survived... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
didn’t have time to read all the articles in medical journals that might help them make better diagnoses and prognoses, not with the proliferation of academic journals reportedly publishing articles at a rate of once every 26 seconds. Doctors themselves began to View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo of a child's inner ear and text... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
batching. So many tasks feel never-ending, and we become exhausted by bookmarking, prioritizing, and switching. Batching helps. A good example is email: By batching email into two one-hour windows a day—say 9 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 5... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
with an email from Aileen Lee (MBA 1997), who founded Cowboy Ventures and originated the VC term “unicorn” to denote billion-dollar startups. When Lee joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 she had been wary of the challenges... View Details