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David A. Frankel
bit by bit, with each new investment. “My yearning to be involved in entrepreneurial pursuits was being satisfied and I could sleep at night,” he said. “The founder is the hero; they really own the problems.” In 2009, when Frankel and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a positive result. First, View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
continuous game of test-and-learn to see what worked and what didn’t. Every time they made a new step (wagging a tail, playing with a toy, sleeping belly-up), there was that excitement of progress in a bond. Saying goodbye always sucked.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created, student-driven program that... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
behavior and election outcomes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55006 Harvard Business School 518-108 Casper Sleep Inc. (B): Growth Strategy No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
that is created by knowing you arrive on Sunday, and your final presentation to your global partner is on Friday. It involves not sleeping much for the week, but the intensity of the experience is part of what makes it memorable,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
sleep and waking up routines. However, there were several factors Nanda had to grapple with before she could commit to final manufacturing design and development. Did she conduct sufficient market research to verify the desire for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the Battle of the Bulge. Green knew little about these events. He was focused on finding his team a warm place to sleep and enough to eat. Some nights they took refuge in a sheepherder’s shed or in makeshift barracks of the partisans, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
sleeping under his desk at the AKDN’s offices. (Thanks to a lack of rentable space, post-Taliban landlords could demand a full year of highly inflated rent up front.) At the time, much of AKDN’s work was focused on nonprofit agencies and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense workers hunkered down with their... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
can put that one aside and not worry about that for a hundred years, at least. That is not happening, so you can sleep soundly at night. If you're worried about that there will be more and more powerful tools to do more and more good and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
PublicationsThe Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs Author:Cynthia A. Montgomery Publication:New York: HarperCollins, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey Jones Edward Elgar Publishing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
through the tangle of laws and policies around banking and operating in such unprecedented circumstances. This is the part of the job that weighs most heavily on her heart, and McKenna acknowledges losing sleep worrying about the safety... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
daily conversation with all of them and supporting them financially, I am intimately familiar with the daily fears, dangers, and challenges that these people face. People facing bombings and fire, sleeping in bomb shelters with their kids... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
at the hotel. It still smelled like burning and I got in and it was 3 in the morning and I walked outside of the hotel and I was walking around the neighborhood because I'm kind of a curious guy and I noticed all these kids sleeping on... View Details