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- 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
- 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 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
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a positive result. First, View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 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
- 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
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2.3.2 Hazing | MBA
physical activity which is likely to affect adversely the physical health or safety or any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or... 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
- 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
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
to lose much sleep over the question. For example, Shadrick Shaili commented “China’s motive is to make the best out of any economy they have an opportunity to trade or deal with so that the benefits manifest in its people at home ... In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
that enable consumers to self-monitor exercise levels, sleep patterns, and blood pressure have sold briskly. Despite Google Health’s failed effort to facilitate patients’ collecting their medical records electronically in one place, there... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
that type of work.” But he wasn’t comfortable with the way that particular developer was doing it. “I thought I could do it in a way that I could sleep at night,” he says. So he founded Pioneer Group in 1997. The firm started out doing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Year’s resolution. To turn a fitness aspiration into a habit, experts often recommend that people adopt rigid exercise routines and rituals, scheduling workouts or sleeping in running clothes, for example. But new research suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
and the surrounding community. Even Baker Library is evolving. When I was a student, we thought of libraries primarily as a physical space; during my graduate school days at MIT, I was even known to sleep overnight on a couch at the Sloan... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
sleep until I got them all a job.” Her extraordinary dedication to education began when Rewane was only six, when, enamored of her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Gbayisomore, she told her parents of her strong desire to follow the same path.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
"principles for getting a lot done." Now in his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours (Harvard Business Review Press), he shares more performance-enhancing tips on everything from how to sleep better on... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
downs come every day. You say “I know if this works and we can get to that vision, it will be phenomenal. But am I taking the right path to it? Am I growing fast enough? Will someone come in with much more money and a larger team and just take over the market?” I View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works of literature that HBS MBA students wrestle with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made in the subconscious after some amount of preparation. That is, study the problem, sleep on it, and decide without further analysis. It's the type of decision making described by Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. According to this... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett