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- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
CFO in 1996. “We took that company from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars in capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
understood and was sympathetic, and they’re not always sympathetic, particularly early in your career. But I was lucky enough to have a couple of long-term helpers who completely got my problem and had to develop a way of nagging me... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the lessons that you gleaned from those choices? Brady: So I bucket those two choices that both he and I had to make in a couple different ways. One is Stephen Reich taught me many, many different things. The first one is that a leader is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
sitting in or that you own or manage, and we bet with just a little effort you could find out precisely how much energy it uses in a typical year. That’s because it essentially only takes one or a handful of cheap sensors and a couple of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
I’ve struggled over the past year with taking care of myself personally. I’ve had to unapologetically prioritize working out, eating healthy just so I can have the fuel and the stamina to get through these long days. I lost my father a View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
ended up placing several players there, and within a matter of a couple years, all of a sudden I found that I had about three dozen players in maybe 10 different countries. And then calls started coming in. Remember, this is before emails... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
worker-management culture. However, the company was best known for its compensation system, paying its workers on a piecework basis, coupled with bonuses based on company revenues. Although this often resulted in average annual pay for... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge — and little discussed. HBS professor Debora L. Spar addressed the market realities of adoption and scientific conception at the 2003 Alumni Health-Care... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
market share or whatnot and so the opportunity narrows. That was not the case with Cloudflare. A couple of years in we realized our opportunity had expanded and that we were thinking too narrowly. And that actually we should really think... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
what most people think, I don't think that virtual meetings are as effective. There are a couple reasons. People are simply more distracted and multitasking behind the screen. You know, they're secretly texting on the side of the computer... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
right now, in the evening have free homework help. [music] JH: I asked Sal Khan what he’s learned since starting the Academy, and what’s changed. SK: I think the biggest change of the last couple of years it has changed people’s views... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a little bit more thoughtful. So when I began, it was just a single Excel page tracking how long I was running for, and how much I was sleeping, and a couple other things related to overall wellness. And it was really just a way to have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
blessed to have so much support from our students and our alumni to actually act on this opportunity. Public confidence in business has diminished significantly over the past couple of years. How can business earn it back? Trust in... View Details
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- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
These two volunteers forged a cross-class connection that resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. When Alex Crisses stepped up to cochair his 5th Reunion, he decided to couple his own ideas about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
walked into an empty Aldrich amphitheater, I relived memories of the case method. Candy Baffour-Awuah Candy Baffour-Awuah (Accra, Ghana) Best thing about HBS? The opportunity to pick up skills in class beyond the "technical," coupled with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an elderly View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Lessons from Everest
failure to act as a true team; and a lack of “psychological safety,” a group dynamic that emboldens individual members to ask questions, admit mistakes, and express dissent. Ultimately, a failure to question leadership — coupled with the... View Details