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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Woman in the House
Journal Gazette (October 21, 2003). The swearing-in ceremony included an audience of eight hundred enthusiastic supporters, a high-school band, and a heartfelt rendition of the national anthem. “The bipartisan crowd was liberal with its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
of jeans for her burial, I came across a brown, leather-bound journal. I opened it and found passages from the weeks before she died. When I showed the journal to a neighbor (who happened to be an addiction psychiatrist) he said, “You... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 02 Feb 2022
- News
AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say
Photo via Pymetrics Photo via Pymetrics A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of Frida Polli (MBA 2012), a neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics, an AI-powered recruiting and job matching platform, to employ... View Details
- 10 Nov 2018
- News
The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner
Ultramarathoner Eric Spector (MBA 1972) got a late start on the sport. As detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Spector started running while living in Manhattan, competing in his first New York City Marathon in 1979, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
political climate in the United States today, do you think that democracy is in jeopardy? Rebecca Henderson: Yes, I think democracy is in trouble, and there are two key indicators. One is that in the United States, according to a 2019 NBC News/Wall Street View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
A Match Made in Heaven
1993 where he watched admiringly as Roper deftly managed a social encounter involving a former girlfriend, according to the Boston Business Journal (February 23-March 1, 2001). “You go to Harvard and you realize smart people are a dime a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
businesses, he began drinking heavily and eventually lost it all,” the Albuquerque Journal (December 7, 2000) reported. Cordova said that he wound up “high-class homeless — that means I lived in a van.” Later, he learned about RS&VP, a... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
(photo: Associated Press) (photo: Associated Press) The appointment of Ulf Mark Schneider (MBA 1993) as CEO of Nestlé was a surprise, with a Swiss equities trader telling the Wall Street Journal that “an insider was expected.” Indeed, the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
According to the headline in the Wall Street Journal (October 26, 1999), Gregory Slayton (MBA '90) is a "Silicon Valley Hybrid: A Boss Who Makes Others' Ideas Pay Off." Slayton, president and CEO of ClickAction, Inc., an Internet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
especially when their employees are naturally proactive, according to a forthcoming article in the Academy of Management Journal by Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6494.html. Reversing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Journal as a “Best New Magazine of 2002.” Circulation today tops 40,000. And true to their original family-oriented goal, both work from home: Nelson from Mill Valley, California, and Phillips from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Growing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
information, and savings. "An entire industry imploded," he asserted. "Now the industry is driven by the retail marketplace. And [online traders] are having fun." Indeed the "fun," or entertainment value, of e-commerce cannot be underestimated. "Even the front page of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Research Brief: Great Expectations
treat other people and the expectations we hold drive how they turn out.” His findings appear in the paper, “The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others,” published in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be patriotic and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
1985F, 1989A, and 2008J), to protest a professor’s behavior (see 1992C and 2000D), and to just have fun. But when pranks involved rivalry between sections, things could get out of hand. See the episode described under 1992D, which made the front page of the Wall Street... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
Life. “I should just go tell those stories,” he remembers thinking. After graduation, he took an internship at the Washington Post. He’s now a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative business reporter at the New York Times. Long-form View Details
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
through the Harvard i-lab; and 2017 MBA-MD candidate Brian Powers, who has coauthored more than 20 peer-review papers and is deputy editor of Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. In addition, the Chronicle of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
up with Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) to gain some insider knowledge of a role cited by the Wall Street Journal for its coveted status among MBAs. Ramaswami, a senior product manager at Google (where he worked for nearly six years before... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna