Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

between us and some other firms relates to how we think about the CEO. A couple of years ago, we analyzed our successful companies across multiple dimensions. The one trait of all our successful companies was that the CEO we backed at... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

01 Jun 2024
News

Again and Again

Good habits help keep us on track and in good health, but rituals animate us. They are the emotional catalysts that enhance an ordinary day or make special occasions memorable. When we survey romantic couples, we find a lot of them have little rituals. One View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

relationships and form some roots there. But it's been even better to be married and to grow from there and start our family and start a new journey as a couple and as a family and for our children. And this was the most important... View Details

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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 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

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

is true in software, where you have the added benefit of being able to give some of your work to a computer, which can process it more reliably and quickly than a human." More time, coupled with a better understanding of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

01 Feb 2023
What Do You Think?

Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

that has emptied their offices and destroyed much of the daily face-to-face give and take coupled with pride in the organization that they enjoyed over the years? Will hybrid work strategies destroy much of this? Will they pull down... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

01 Dec 2023
News

Action Plan: Life Study

Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Financial Aid - Alumni

business and engineering and catalyze HBS-SEAS collaborations, the couple endowed a fellowship for students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program. Brittanie Bowman Brittanie endowed a fellowship in honor of her late husband, Whitney... View Details

25 Jan 2016
Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

stayed in our apartment off campus, which is about halfway between the business and law school. You can definitely still live on campus if you have a partner or children – the only housing not available to you is the dorms. There are multi-bedroom apartments in a... View Details

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

a more immersive experience during your two years here. There’s a naive kind of bliss to allowing work and play to fully intertwine again. I completely understand the desire to live off campus if a partner needs to (there are many options on the HBS campus for View Details

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Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting

workforce and you want to be able to encourage people who bring fresh ideas and a fresh perspective, you have to facilitate people to be able to work remotely,” O’Grady said. This move expands your candidate pool especially when coupled... View Details

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

but Ogunlesi always showed up, eventually becoming the sole student in the classroom. “The lecturer was my tutor and I didn’t want him to face an empty classroom,” says Ogunlesi. That level of consideration for others, coupled with raw... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

the most about your HBS experience? How quickly we catch on. Showing up to HBS is analogous to showing up to OCS, The Basic School, MOS school, etc. There’s a brief moment in time where you’re lost in the sauce, and then a couple weeks... View Details

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

07 Sep 2021
News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

world’s largest producers of wallboard for the construction industry. Both are active on boards and in their community and are particularly interested in issues related to education, arts and culture, and community improvement. The couple... View Details

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

What advice do you have for introverts? Prepare a couple bullet points of topics you could bring up when a conversation starts to lag or stagnate—it’s pretty easy to personalize these topic ideas depending on who you expect to talk to.... View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

than the original cohort. We also followed up on 90 leaders featured in True North to see how they have fared since their 2005-06 interviews. With only a couple of exceptions, we learned these leaders had remained true to their authentic... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

trading, took over leadership from Peter Peterson in 1983. [15] Glucksman placed a greater emphasis on trading versus investment banking, causing tensions between the two divisions. The firm experienced a decline in profits coupled with a... View Details

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