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- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
happy. So have you thought about that? Pasricha: You know? At the end of our classes in RC year-- I think most people will be the same-- our professors closed the class on the final View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
would triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, these business leaders were concerned about the growing inequality of income within many nations, across nations, and across regions.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
women It's important to remember that HBS has been global from its founding: Our very first MBA class included students from Brazil and Canada. Today, 34 percent of our students and 42 percent of our faculty hail from outside the United... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
impressed upon me that education was the only thing you could take with you when leaving a country in the middle of the night. Even with that sage advice, she and both of my parents had never attained more than a high school education.... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and rolling blackouts, so Dawe... View Details
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution Complete Table of Contents October 1997 Doing Something Real A Classmate's Reflections on the Occasion of 1972's 25th Reunion High Fives Five of the many prominent figures in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
A: The compensatory consumption thesis is particularly focused on how straight white men from working and middle class backgrounds, those below the top 10 or 15 percent, create a meaningful sense of identity... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
think? Deshpandé: She made an impact on her industry in terms of being able to be successful in both parallel and mainstream cinema. These are two different audiences, an upper middle class intelligentsia... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course, like putting my desk out in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award. All five of these exemplary alumni once sat in the same place as this year’s graduating class before going on to make a difference in the world. With the benefit of time and perspective, in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
Pradhan: “I work as a technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
people in industrializing societies to get themselves into debt. At the same time, waged employment in booming nineteenth-century cities created a class of borrowers who lacked the social networks necessary for older types of neighborly... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
every case through that lens." O'Neill also became involved in the School's mentoring program with the Taft Middle School, and as General Academic Council representative for his section, he was a driving force in reshaping the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
forefront of understanding these phenomena and what they mean, not only to U.S. managers, but to managers worldwide. Student demand is another important factor. This year's entering MBA class is 33 percent international. That presents a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
"I don't think Brazil today has the best image abroad. I don't think people look at Brazil and say, 'Wow, this is a country that I would love to visit.'" Those views are based on an antiquated notion of Brazil, Sender says. More than 50 million Brazilians have joined... View Details