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- 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
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
over the next five to 10 years, almost 60 percent of the world's population will, in fact, live in cities instead of the rural areas. And that's going to put a huge burden on the infrastructure that cities will have to create. “The way we created Myles Cars was an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Going Forward
to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have made real progress, and I am... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
site who has lived that turnaround experience and done it with confidence would be extremely powerful." —Carl Christopher ON- AND OFF-LINE LEARNING "The US education system is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led since earning his MBA, Klarman... 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 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
Franklin and her cohorts proved extremely successful. In 1972, a year after her arrival, the number of women in policymaking positions had increased from 36 to 105. More than 1,000 women were placed in midlevel positions and 330 more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
artist-filmmaker who had never spoken the words “efficiency” or “agenda” in his life. Paradoxically, he was an extremely hard worker and prolific creator. For the first time in my life, I had time, and Tobias taught me how to use it... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
helping me make sense of the experience." Throughout her treatment, Cohen continued to work but cut back on her hours. "I wanted to maintain some sort of normalcy and routine," she says, noting that her friends, family, and coworkers were View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
School's Web portal — and the multiple databases available through eBaker (the Baker Library Research Center) are examples of underutilized yet extremely valuable services that need to be properly marketed to alumni. The Continuing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
recently established a fund to support students who intend to work to improve society. “Today not only is the debt burden much higher, but the education the School provides is extremely valuable to those interested in public service or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
community. Our second-largest shareholder was so enamored by this that he wanted me to advertise it. I absolutely refused. I always followed the theory that if someone else toots your horn, the noise travels twice as far. Grand Bank was View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
it led us to keeping the team small and being extremely customer-centric, since we don't have investors as stakeholders. What's been the most enjoyable part of building the company, and what's been the most challenging? The most enjoyable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
some lines. I don’t think we want to set up, as other countries have, what amounts to a central authority that looks at everybody’s choices. But we need to look at the extremes and whether there are some practices we just don’t want to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business skills... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
amazingly stimulating peer group. Almost without exception, they were well traveled, well read, visually literate, and extremely demanding. They were also opportunistic and flexible. Two good illustrations: (1) Despite bike and backpack,... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
course, from PepsiCo to aluminum, from life sciences to financial services. But a quarter of the cases are about extreme and sometimes tragic events that span organizations, such as the Chilean mining rescue of 2010, the sinking of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
books on entrepreneurship—offered fresh perspectives for investors after the pandemic and for entrepreneurs looking for funding. What I loved most about this world-class event was that the Angels Conference showcased an extremely diverse,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley