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- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
co-founder of Humu and a former people analytics manager at Google. Get off the couch, even during a pandemic While routines have helped many people stay productive and support... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
about the field of manufacturing, Union describes the pure pleasure of making a tangible, useful product. “Manufacturing offers so many analytical and intellectual challenges,” she adds. “It’s extremely satisfying to build a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
My particular focus in the public policy area within health care has been focusing on promoting policies around prevention and wellness, the thinking being that, if we can help people to stay healthy—keep them out of the hospital—they... View Details
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
becomes clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. "Very few View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen (MBA ’62) (Synergetic Press) This memoir chronicles the life of the inventor of Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass and the world’s largest laboratory for global ecology. Eight View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
broader array of role models, choosing bits and pieces from different people to create a customized model," she explains. The second form of experimenting that Ibarra documented was characterized by a concern for authenticity, defined as... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
Richardson, proudly noting that her mother later became a teacher. A native of Arlington, Texas, Richardson received a track scholarship at Baylor University, where she majored in business administration and journalism. After graduation, she merged her View Details
- Web
Negotiation - Course Catalog
dramatically; Work with people whose backgrounds, expectations, perspectives, values, and ethical standards differ from your own; and Reflect on-and learn from-your experience. This course will teach you how to analyze, prepare for, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
(UWC) in New Mexico, a two-year high-school program that promotes international understanding among students from over eighty countries. “I met people who were very different from me, from the Soviet Union, South Africa, and Eastern... View Details
- Profile
Prita Kumar
turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with... View Details
- Profile
Abhay Saboo
Attending business school has long been one of Abhay Saboo's ambitions. With his interest in technology, however, he wanted to use his undergraduate education to build a credible foundation for the future. "I did engineering to develop an View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
ecosystem has grown at an impressive rate," Deighton says. When indirect employment is calculated into the number of jobs that depend directly on the existence of the Internet, the study estimates that 5.1 million people owe their... View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
you planning to do after HBS? After HBS I will work as a management consultant at Bain & Company in New York. I knew I wanted to move into the private sector, and consulting is a great way to gain insight into a wide variety of industries and gain View Details
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Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
analytics, but truly appreciate aesthetics. I’m very conscious of my inner tension between analytical and creative thinking.” Following her mathematical and sciences baccalaureate, she pursued liberal arts at an all-girl military boarding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. View Details