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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
guaranteeing long-term debt from the market against government contractual obligations. "A big lesson I took away from the course," Shapiro says, "is the importance of gaining internal acceptance for specific change, even when almost... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Business with Minimal Risk by Bob Reiss with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (foreword by Howard H. Stevenson) (The Free Press) Entrepreneurs are not risk seekers; they are risk managers, risk sharers, and risk minimizers. This is a central lesson... View Details
- Portrait Project
Chris Kaleel
I will go all in. My dad taught my brother, sister, and me to play blackjack when I was 10. There was never a serious wager—we used plastic chips to place bets—but I figured out how to consistently finagle my way to accumulate a hefty pile of loot. I learned some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
2012, which harnessed science to understand and change habits, and this year’s Smarter Faster Better, on the science of productivity. Both were bestsellers, and both have lessons for aspiring writers. After researching the science of goal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha
awesome: Pasricha met and married his new wife, and they now have two children. That led him to his next topic: happiness. “It was a 300-page letter to my unborn child,” Pasricha says of his new book, The Happiness Equation, another bestseller, which finds View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke at our class event in New York about why HBS is important to him. It resonated deeply with our class members.” “I think there’s a real opportunity to share... View Details
- 13 May 2015
- Blog Post
Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive
internship? The most applicable lessons I learned from my RC year were softer skills on leadership especially around aligning incentives. I was able to communicate to all the stakeholders on my project in the language they wanted to hear.... View Details
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Lessons from HBS While Thinking Bigger and Bolder Michael Johnson 01 Oct 2021 Michael Johnson is the President & CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, based in Mad... Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
2017 I’ve learned this simple lesson too many times to ignore it this far into life: Stepping back fro... Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer in Community Development Michael Alan Williams 30 Nov 2017 I’ve known for a while that I want to... View Details
- Web
Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
again Communicating key lessons from a venture’s failure when pitching a next venture to potential employees, investors, and strategic partners Most class sessions will focus on venture capital-backed startups, but the course will also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
program,” said KSG professor Robert Stavins, who cochaired the Joint-Degree Faculty Task Force with HBS professor Carl Kester, deputy dean for Academic Affairs. “In developing a truly integrated joint-degree program such as this,” Kester added, “students will be able... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article, Andresen - sharing a View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
of the lessons continue to resonate. "They taught me to view the enterprise as a whole - and as something that was subject to lots of conflicting pressures and constraints from customers, investors, and em- ployees," says Baldwin. "Now... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
EDC developed a solution using interactive lessons via radio broadcasts. “We’ve been always at the cutting edge of applyingtechnology. Not cutting-edge technology, but cutting-edge application,” he says. Offensend has witnessed the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Aaron Chadbourne
self-sufficiency inspired admiration and loyalty. Her customers were "her people," and she believed that even the briefest interactions could change their lives for the better. As her dutiful apprentice, I delighted in our afternoon conversations that... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
as well as a relatively new handset technology. The capital intensity made the company vulnerable to external markets. Taken separately, these risks were manageable. Taken together, they added up to failure. The personal lessons ran even... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
business issues. This case focuses on the outcome of InnoCentive's decision to post challenges related to environmental issues created by the Gulf oil spill. It reviews lessons learned from this experience and asks students to consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne