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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
“Never forget that your employees are ultimately going to make or break the business you’re in. A lot of the time what happens is people think, oh, let’s put the customers first and let’s make sure that the customers are happy, satisfied,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
110-year-old department store, which will see new Rent the Runway shops open inside of existing Neiman Marcus locations. (Rent the Runway opened its first physical store in New York City in 2014, and now has a total of seven locations.)... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tracy Williams
Why me? How could something like this happen to me? The first time was my freshman year in college. I couldn’t believe I had gotten into my dream school. Eager to change the world, I knew I’d study politics. But that dream quickly turned... 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 journalism naturally led Duhigg to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
When Mark Stevens (MBA 1989) first heard about HBX, he immediately recognized its potential for providing a transformational learning experience for participants around the world. "I understand the impact you can achieve by creating... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
make more sense for a workforce that is older with fewer obligations (childcare, etc.) outside the office? Does it recognize the social needs of many (not all) humans to relate in person to those with whom we are working? We can ask how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As... View Details
- 29 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Celebrates Pride Month
closeted. We are reminded during this time of year that "being a leader who makes a difference in the world" is sometimes accomplished simply by being yourself. Sam Bokher Experiencing my first Pride month in the U.S. made me realize how... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human... View Details
- Profile
Jolie Chow
finance." HBS has changed the way Jolie sees leadership and decision-making. "I used to think that there was one right answer," Jolie says. "In my first cases, it was hard; I was scared... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headquarters, where Skullcandy creates and markets high-quality, boldly designed headphones, earbuds, speaker docks, iPhone/iPod accessories, and clothing. What’s this first year as CEO been like? We went public in July 2011, a few months... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
the Single Market so long as they pay into the EU budget and implement virtually all EU legislation. At best, therefore, leaving the EU would amount to little more than Britain’s throwing away the voting rights and influence it has now,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the... View Details
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Amanda Pratt
year. "All of the classes had a team and project focus, and a strong humanities component; many of them had a business and entrepreneurial aspect, too," says Amanda. "We valued not just the technical aspects of a problem,... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
essential. It’s not optional,” she says. “There’s almost an animal instinct to it. When you take someone out of their environment, and give them a lot of constraints and not many resources, certain traits become more prominent. Connecting with View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
the availability of the right type of talent. These regions are characterized by a diverse pool of human capital with varying levels of expertise. Entrepreneurs must deal with talent shortages in certain... View Details
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Jonathan Assayag
before jumping in wholeheartedly. Talking to them, I realized my first business idea wasn't the right one for me." Getting it right For his summer internship, Jonathan... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
number of very sharp and very important junctures." Critical Junctures The first critical juncture was the invention of the printing press, which made it possible to have a media industry to begin with. The second major juncture... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
at CHAI. First, the lessons from the first year Leadership class have been crucial in the development of the management diagnostic tool, especially its human resources management dimension. The class has... View Details