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- 19 Oct 2022
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If I Were You
Try something else. But really open your eyes. Xavier Paternot (MBA 2002): Xavier Paternot, 2002. Make career decisions based on your, on your guts and your, and your heart, and not on- on your head. Hang Li (MBA 2006): Hang Li, MBA,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Yellowstone. What’s your proudest achievement? Being willing and able to make tough decisions during the credit crisis that, although not perfect, I believe were largely correct. When are you most relaxed? When I’m saltwater fly-fishing.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
morning one of Traeger’s big rigs was set on fire in the parking lot, apparently in protest of his decision to outsource shipping to UPS. “The culture was so toxic, I knew it would ruin me and everyone I brought into it,” he says. Andrus... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
The Work-Life Balancing Act
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Jackie Coleman and John Coleman (MBA 2010) write that their decision to start a family “changed nearly everything in our working and personal lives.” From sleep schedules to finances, free... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
about, say, the allocation of roles and decision making, and applying them to his life. For Wasserman, the meeting was revelatory. Anyone—founders or not—could gain all these profound life lessons from the counterintuitive ways that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
blames the music industry's recent problems, perhaps ironically, on the compact disc. In the early 1980s, this little piece of hardware rescued the music business from the lethargy of the post-disco era - the industry's only other down period in recent history. With... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
24 hours and start formulating my end. So, yes or no?” Once the decision is made to send a team of volunteers, the organization’s goal is not to be first on the ground, but last. They look for places off the beaten path that might fall... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the potential in the places we are living... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
have been fixed by the right words? Has your best employee walked out the door without you ever telling them how much they meant to you? Do you still recall that wonderful thing someone said to you so many years ago? If so, then you know... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
made during those years have sustained to this day, and it's a group I continue to learn from every year. I've never viewed HBS as simply a school or a place. I view it as a living and evolving institution gifted to us by those who came before us. So volunteering was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are generated that include balance sheets, customer beer preferences, and ways in which the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
shouldn't be that way. THERE IS ONLY ONE decision I would change. In 2007, when we knew the economy was starting to go south, we talked about selling our papers in Maine. Every rational thought I had said, "Sell them, or you'll be sorry."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets.... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
MBA, however, I would like to think I could have turned the company around as effectively as the new management, and make many of the same decisions they did—decisions that were right for the times. There... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
potential. Whillans explains that our exposure to feedback most often occurs in a setting like a performance evaluation, where someone either has or has not passed a measurable threshold. As a result, we limit ourselves to examining what went View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
negotiating situations, Wheeler cautions against making ethical choices on the fly. He advises asking yourself in advance five important questions that can help illuminate the boundaries between right and wrong at the bargaining table. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price
Kaplan realized he had made a classic entrepreneurial mistake. He let his quest for perfection get in the way of progress. “We thought we could find the perfect location, get the right costs, the right... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance