Learning To Learn - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

PMD, it's OPM for me. Refrain: OPM (OPM), Harvard Square (Harvard Square). You'll learn with all the smartest teachers there. Come on down to Cambridge to spend a week or... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

Miller wrote in a 1948 issue. "After July 1, these class notes will emanate from Crossett, Arkansas, where I will be busily engaged in learning the forest products industry." The Bulletin's expanded alumni reporting during World War II... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it became is past its apex, and... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

and so humble. I joke with a colleague who has been here for fifteen years that I’m following in her footsteps. I hope to be here at least that long.” — JH — To learn more... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

dad or single mom who’s got to pick up their kid from soccer practice on Friday afternoon. If all of a sudden being part of the Cloudflare team requires you to come out drinking with us, they’re not going... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

of US workers hate their jobs and don’t want to show up on Monday morning, and Slater lays some of the blame for this at the doors of leaders: When their selfish actions diminish the effectiveness of their teams, they commit the ultimate... View Details

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

literally in the Toronto phone book there's eight of them, and, like, my uncle, my uncle, my aunt, my cousin. So, thank you. The thing-- I'm learning to be a dad, so it's far from a done deal where I've... View Details

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