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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
90 percent ownership of a toilet or access to a toilet. So, you can build toilets, but how do you get people to use them? You have a huge communication exercise by government, by NGOs, by players, trying to ensure that people understood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
presents up-to-date scientific research findings that explain why we have unwanted habits (for example, inappropriate angry outbursts, procrastination, breaking a diet, or abandoning an exercise program) and why they are so hard to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
pay back ill-gotten gains from option exercises that preceded accounting restatements — and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
pianist. Meeting with colleagues at Baupost. Enjoying a Red Sox game with his wife, Beth. For 30 years, Seth Klarman has exercised an investment strategy of evaluating businesses based on their worth and of seeking out bargains. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
me is the ability to communicate in a compact, compelling, and concise way. When you’re in a class with super-smart MBAs, and you have maybe 45 seconds to air your point of view, that’s a unique exercise in concentrated analysis and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
education, travel and media industries. For the reader who wants down-to-earth guidance about how to be a successful leader, the book does more than just talk about the significance of leadership intelligence. It features a wealth of practical View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
intelligence that are necessary when the issues at stake are a greater sense of meaning and commitment. The book leads the reader through a series of exercises designed to uncover a rich understanding and appreciation for what each of the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
And in some cases, happen at the same time. And over time, I've learned to manage it using what I call, a cocktail of approaches. I use medication daily. Exercise daily. Meditation. But I also, have a very supportive family and structure... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two- or three-hour View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
general managers need to frame problems, exercise judgment, and lead. We are just at the beginning of this work, and the future holds enormous promise. Second, we are continuing to sharpen our focus on entrepreneurship. Since Howard... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong contingent of entrepreneurs who turned... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
it happens. And so that was my reaction was, here we are again. I had a slightly different reaction to the protests, which was pride, incredible pride at this new generation of young people who are taking to the streets and who are View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
breakthrough of happiness science—that we could know something about it, and when we knew something about it, we got happier. When you understand the nature of your own change—the structure of your own brain and the exercise in futility... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
deliverables. We have to inspire. We have to be humble. We have to be able to measure outcomes,” he says. Governing a country is also an exercise in managing multiple stakeholders and, at the grandest possible scale, change management—a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
at his Dallas home, where 13 alumni got to try out a practice forum discussion led by Sheets and a professional facilitator. “If you structure the conversation right, it’s amazing how deep it can go, very quickly,” says Sheets, adding that a typical meeting would start... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
and pivot into a substantial unknown. In-person gatherings were canceled—and everyone wondered, what comes next? To their credit, the staff who decamped to their homes across the greater Boston area and beyond quickly regrouped and began the untested View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
independent and sharp-eyed accounting firms — the alternative would be a disaster of bureaucratic gridlock in the form of line-by-line audits by the federal government. Can Wall Street's leaders restore trust in the markets' integrity? Yes, I think they can. But they... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, and choices. Career planning should be an View Details
Keywords: Time management