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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Alumni How to Deploy the Case Method to Raise Confident Kids When Anne Jones (MBA 1997) was in her first year at HBS, she says she often worried that she didn’t belong there. “I was thinking, ‘how am I here?’ but it was the case method... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
satisfy finicky customers. It was a baptism by fire that gave Makarim the confidence to turn to Go-Jek full-time and reimagine the company as an app-based service similar to Uber. Uber, which launched in San Francisco in 2010 but had not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
BioDevastation 2000. Obviously, advances in biotechnology are not viewed with confidence by all. Although much of the debate focuses on the possible health hazards posed by genetically engineered crops, as well as their potential for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
“You’re able to see how real people have tried the products so you get a sense of how they work for someone just like you,” says Shah. “We source the video reviews from a diverse community of real people across all skin tones, all ages, and all body types to give... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
nurses, what we tell our staff, and the real focus of the company. We get letters from patients—I received one about a year ago from a patient who is eternally grateful. It was a heartwarming letter from a patient who was treated very specially by our nurse. I think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
volatility equity derivatives. Now retired, he divides his time between South Florida and Nantucket, Massachusetts. “HBS helped me clarify what I wanted to do and gave me a big confidence boost. It also provided me with frameworks for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
Global has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” (photo by Quincy Dein) The attributes of a great kiteboarder: “It’s just pure attitude. It’s the confidence that you can do it and the willingness to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
to management teams," recalls Sanders. "That way you can get to know the people who are responsible for a company's strategy." Other topics included GE's bid for Honeywell and Welch's confidence in his successor, Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
opportunity to take risks and be accountable for the outcome. You have to have confidence and faith that you’re going to be OK either way. “You can’t take the safe road all the time,” he continues. “You have to be willing to take certain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a bond issuer and you don’t like what one rating agency... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
program at HBS. To prepare for that, I teamed up with Howell Jackson at Harvard Law School, who is an expert in financial institutions. We launched the CFS program two years ago, and it gave Howell and me the confidence that we could pull... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
doesn’t really keep me up. I have a terrific group of colleagues, and I never make a decision alone. There’s so much intelligence and integrity here that I have complete confidence in what we do. Of course I sometimes worry about another... 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
you have performed much more than adequately to have lasted so long; and a confidence that having come this far, you are well prepared to meet all future challenges." "The nation's business community," Graves said, "continues to reserve... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
“gave me the confidence to transfer my skills to the private sector. What’s at stake may be different, but I hope the impact will be just as great.” She saw earning an MBA as the “bridge between being a leader in the military and being a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
MBA degree from the University of Karachi, suitcases full of all my saris from my dowry, and an enormous amount of confidence — I’d almost say of naive confidence — in my ability to secure a corporate job at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
stressors of the HBS model is speaking in class. The learning team gave me a sounding board to try out a comment before bringing it to class. I was always more confident in discussing a topic in section that had been fleshed out by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
naive confidence that I’d be successful, so I just put one foot in front of the other, built my network, and made the best long-term decisions I could.” “I always had the naive confidence that I’d be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna