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Joe Coleman
I spent my 23rd birthday in a psychiatric hospital. Family and friends reassured me during visiting hours, but I was still terrified by my diagnosis bipolar disorder—an incurable condition that felt like a death sentence. Looking back,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Edo Bedzra
A year ago, I was involved in a car accident on I-95 to New York. The car did not survive. Staring death in the face on a three-lane highway brought new perspectives to me—time is the most powerful currency life offers—and—I must apply my... View Details
- Web
Dean’s House | About
just two years before the death of George F. Baker, the prominent banker who funded the construction of Harvard Business School’s original campus. The brick, 10,978-square-foot Georgian Revival-style building includes a gracious entry... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Chan
A typical five-year old on a Saturday morning would likely be watching the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. Not me. I could be found watching The Weather Channel. I was enamored by the weather. I grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, and snowstorms were as certain as... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
adds Schlesinger, to the notion of lifetime customer value, where the dealer benefits from many years of sales and service to the same customer. No longer would the current transaction have to be a fight to the death between buyer, sales... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
and the Caribbean were using Walker beauty products. The New York Times marked the day of her death with an obituary titled "Wealthiest Negress Dead." Koehn says "Madam C.J. Walker" was deeply satisfying to teach as... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
dropped in 2000. In the years from 1997 to his death in 2011, Steve became an icon of the business world—the man who defined charisma in the context of enterprise. Four reasons stand out: the creation of Apple Retail, the iPod, the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
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Dillon House | About
investment bank. Dillon joined the Wall Street bond brokerage firm William A. Read & Company in 1912. Following William Read’s death in 1916, Dillon bought a majority interest in the firm; the company’s name was changed to Dillon, Read &... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
who has always been comfortable spending time alone with her own thoughts. The last thing I thought I’d do is start a nonprofit with complete strangers.” Origin story: “In 2016, I was shattered by the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
community and encourage advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals at the School and in the world of business. Here, in honor of Pride Month, we hear about the role the student club played in the lives of some of those who belonged over the years. 1970s “I was scared to View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
human health consequences from fossil fuel pollution. This pollution has led to an estimated 8 million deaths in 2018, and disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color given where power plants are located.... View Details
- Profile
Prineeta Kulkarni
organization that had worked since the early 2000s on "changing the paradigm of how HIV was seen in Africa. AIDS did not have to be a death sentence, but something people could manage and live with." Pursuing a more formal study... View Details
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Cash House | About
another 26 years until his death in 1946. His achievements in business include helping establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and passing the Federal Reserve Act. Yet these accomplishments are overshadowed by his... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
message with a single Cheerio. “This was a death that was felt very deeply by the fan culture of Prince, and that’s not a time for a heavy marketing sell,” Avery says. “A common tactic right now is for brands to look at what’s hot, what’s... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
different way. Or maybe the trigger is an event in our personal life. The break-up of a relationship or the death of a parent. The types of experience that bring on impasse are myriad, and we often don't realize how much particular life... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
the topic based on his own experience as an outdoor wilderness instructor, an area in which the cost of failure is too high for people to learn only from their own experience. “Trial and error is not the way you want to learn rock climbing,” says Myers. When acquiring... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
grandfather invented the first hard hat -- crafted from canvas and glue -- and his father ran the company until his death in 1971. During Jed Bullard's 25-year tenure at E.D. Bullard, the company has grown to $50 million in annual sales;... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Shara Ticku
for? My life had once been directional —onward, upward— a series of events that would push me higher up the metaphorical ladder I so desperately wanted to climb. But my father’s death was sudden and unexpected, a total freak accident. It... View Details