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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
A Third Act for Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Widely credited with pioneering the concept of the restaurant industry’s $80 billion “fast casual” segment, Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) started small: a 400-square-foot business in Boston’s Downtown Crossing that sold cookies. From those humble but tasty beginnings, Shaich... View Details
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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
country that we go to, we always visit the open market, because that’s where you see real living,” he says. “You see it out in the open.” "Coming down the mountain at full speed, there’s nothing like it." People experience nature in all View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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All Locations - Recruiting
Latin America Middle East & North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Career Data Internship Data View: Class of 2024 Class of 2024 Class of 2023 Class of 2022 Class of 2021 Class of 2020 Sort By: A-Z A-Z Highest to Lowest Lowest to Highest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
class=infogram-embed data-id=_/zKh5RuKYpwdq5VANdcPm][/div] M: Mindset. The foundational level of the MSK Leader Development Framework pyramid targets a leader’s mindset, in particular, the beliefs that orient the way we handle situations and View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
tell if these online matches came to fruition in real life.) Defining desirability To sort matches, the researchers measured desirability, though not in the “supermodel” sense. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: The team determined... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
doesn't mean you shouldn't try. DM: You also talk about some sort of internal due diligence. What kind of questions do people need to ask themselves before they think about joining a startup? GB: If you think about your career from the... View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate bonds
hit GO for a list of bonds issued by the company and its subsidiaries; e.g., GM [CORP] [GO]. Scroll through the list and select a specific issue. (Make sure the Exclude drop-down menu is set as desired. To sort the list click a... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
quickly what kind of conversation you're in. AW: In the book you call this Rule One. Rule One of conversation is figuring out what conversation you're having. This is rule one of four, so we're not finished yet. What are the next steps to having these productive... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
thought the kids would praise me, but the kids did anything but praise me. My son said to me, "Dad, you're really good in sort of rational, intelligent discourse, but tell me, what does your acquired pragmatism do for African Americans?"... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
include an "insurance policy" that pays one party a sum tied to the future realized value of the firm. This sort of arrangement sometimes appears in mergers in the form of "earn-out provisions" and "collars."... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
and around the world, can accomplish. Sally Sorte Bernstein | Class of 2021 Little(s): Olivia (4 months) Pre-HBS Industry: Education, Tech, Management Consulting Proudest Accomplishment: Giving birth to Olivia (standing up) on Christmas... View Details
- 20 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
universities represented, hundreds of companies, many, many lived experiences and backgrounds. Cyril: Absolutely. It's really important for the classroom for there not to be one sort of profile. We really do need that diversity of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
information daily, the repeated communications seemed puzzling to Neeley, at least at first. The researchers moved forward to investigate what sort of events triggered managers to deploy multiple messages. They studied the communication... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard