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Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship

opinions, cathartic to feel that others share your challenges, frightening to see the hurdles ahead, and inspiring to know that it can be done.” — Rock 100: The Network member Apply to be a part of The Rock 100 We will update this Rock 100 website with more information... View Details

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

pages long, but it describes an outstanding team pursuing a new technology. I have seen compelling business plans in the form of a few PowerPoint slides, a couple of scribbled pages, and a brief video. What matters is having all the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

world and what they think is fair and unfair. This requires more than reading a couple of books or knowing a few people. It requires deep, curious learning about who people think they are and where they have been. And, happily, it can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

The researchers asked 655 participants recruited from an online participant pool to think about a “familiar stranger”—someone they had seen a few times in the last couple of months but never interacted with, like a fellow passenger on a... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

redundant communication, coupled with an escalating sense of urgency, is integral to communicating because it gets the job done. New research shows that getting employees to listen up and deliver isn't so different. “Those without power... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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FAQ - Alumni

be credited to my class automatically? Yes. Will my spouse and I both receive credit for a gift to HBS? Joint crediting does not happen automatically. Alumni couples must indicate—on the online giving form or gift reply slip—if they would... View Details

11 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

body to kickstart the natural immune response. “What’s become clearer over the last couple years is that cancer patients have bad dendritic cells,” Zutshi said. “They don’t have as many, and the ones that they have don’t work as well,... View Details

18 Jan 2024
News

Match Game

When the Bulletin included Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) in its December issue, the longtime consumer tech executive was COO of Tinder. On January 9, the company announced Iosotaluno would become Tinder CEO. “It’s hard to overstate the impact Tinder has had on... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Now Starring: Single Dad

WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

recognize how the sum is greater than its parts. While each team member played a role in your efforts, it is almost always how the team worked together that led to where you are now. Schedule a couple hours to be together—ideally, face to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

According to author Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, the fragmented, secretive, often family-owned businesses that have constituted the industry have been difficult for scholars to unlock. Couple... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

Article

Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

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01 Dec 2023
News

Action Plan: Life Study

of a cliff. I asked myself, What can I do to keep my wife interested and alive? With that objective in mind, I started the watercolor class and invited eight of her friends to join.” When Merrill died in 2017, Hartley struggled to find a new focus. The View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

have come at a worse time, except for the holiday season. Aisner: I know it's impossible to predict the future, but what might lie ahead for J.C. Penney? Lal: They might be able to get a couple of billion dollars in loans. That way, if... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

01 Jan 2012
News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

served as a doctor there). HBS students study in the Stamps Reading Room at Baker Library, and the couple has funded a professorship, residency programs, a speakers’ series, a gallery, and an auditorium at the University of Michigan... View Details

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