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Considering Retirement - Alumni

current position for years to come, "retirement" has changed for many. Rethinking “Retirement” In many ways, the key to a successful retirement is the same as it is for a successful career: planning. But in the run-up to retirement, too few View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

4 Markets Apply market principles to analyze industries in which no traditional market functions. Highlights The Concept of Market Equilibrium Internet versus Traditional Retail Prediction Markets Show Hide... View Details

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

productivity” “That expected leisure time changed things completely,” says Amabile. Participants worked much more productively, finishing the same tasks in less time but without any more mistakes—and without any evidence View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

Ask Brice Jones, founder and president of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, what he does for a living, and he will answer simply, "I'm a farmer." Spend a morning touring his vineyard and winery in Windsor, California, however, and you will... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Sara Mattei Gentili

belong to was myself. It felt liberating. I embraced the things that made me stand out and those became my strengths. So now I graduate with a new mission: being unapologetically myself and showing all weird and odd little girls hiding in... View Details

05 Mar 2014
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When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

information and social networking sector. Several respondents to this month's column argued that we are. As Kamal Gupta put it, "Facebook's valuation was explained to me by people I consider smarter than me as valuation of its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

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Yung Winata

What’s the best thing about your home town? This is always such a tricky question for me. I have moved around so much in my life that I don’t really have a “home-town”. On the upside, moving has been a gift View Details

07 Oct 2021
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Planning Ahead

has been profoundly changed by his HBS experience. “There are a lot of things I wouldn’t have been able to do, including creating Sound Point, if it weren’t for HBS, and for that, I am thankful.” View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2021
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Fostering Diversity

loans, came to HBS after working in development at the World Bank. “The School absolutely transformed my life,” he says. Over the years, Ben and Victoria Feder have supported three key priorities at the School: the HBS Fund, the Gender Initiative, and work on issues... View Details

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Mireya Iglesias Ayala

with Mexico or OXXO. I had a lot of fun sharing my perspective! What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? I brought with me a... View Details

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

SUMMING UP: Is collective pride the primary contributor to organization arrogance? There are three things that many respondents to this month’s column can agree on: (1) Pride is an attractive trait among members View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience

than spending it on ourselves). In the following video, the first in a series, Norton doles out some cash to two women in Harvard Square on a sunny summer day. The catch: Each of them must take the money and spend it on an experience.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Brandon Angelini

Weekends were for ambitious projects in my family. Someone would announce a plan for the day — it could be anything — and I remember the weekend that my mom decided we would make a picnic table. My parents are architects, well acquainted with building View Details

04 Aug 2011
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How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Bridgette Slater

accomplishments, but I admire her humility and generous spirit most of all. What’s the best thing about your hometown? Growing up in Washington D.C., I always enjoyed how culturally diverse and international... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

underestimated factor in industrial or business marketing is buyer behavior.— Narakesari Narayandas "So you get in, and then if you do things right, what happens for the business? The customer calls you and wants to place an order.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors faced unprecedented challenges. Vital supplies such as facemasks and cotton swabs were in short supply. New protocols had to be developed to isolate infected patients. Treating patients... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 Jun 2008
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Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

Gerald and Lindsay Zaltman suggest some answers to the questions. In decrying the lack of what they call "deep thinking" among managers and especially those responsible for marketing, they suggest some View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Jul 2002
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How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Consumers are looking for the ability to bundle the products they want in a fashion unique to each individual, and the Web will provide this capability .... We believe that vertical portals will do the best job of providing the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

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