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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
calling to tell me?" Ruben's area had no operational responsibilities, thus would be involved in an outage only peripherally. Barton imagined his team voting on who the bearer of bad news would be. "Because everybody else is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
faculty providing personal experience as a mom in the business world, fellow moms helping me navigate school and day-to-day responsibilities, and my section mates celebrating and loving on my baby like family. I couldn’t imagine a more... View Details
- Profile
Bryan Stromer
Coming to HBS is like... Those “choose your own adventure” books, but the HBS version is filled with fascinating professors, supportive peers, and a lot of cases. Before coming to HBS, I imagined that business school would box me into a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
life without these people. I will never regret going into finance. Not only did I work with some incredible people, but without that experience, I might not have discovered my passion for wellness. Life post-HBS will be the start of yet another great adventure. I... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
private equity internship over the summer. ---- There’s no doubt that applying to HBS was intimidating. I’m grateful to the community of people who helped me overcome my insecurities and recognize that I had a perspective worth sharing. I can’t View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
Andy Wu. Gaming is special because it’s 50 percent technology and 50 percent entertainment. In gaming, we’re challenged to solve both the problems of tech and entertainment. On the tech side, we have to imagine where advances will take us... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
together and rationalize them, this should result in cost savings. If you bring two companies together, you will control more capacity within an industry and gain more pricing power. Imagine if Amazon wanted to merge with eBay. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
tailored therapies based on gene targeting feels like the promised land. A patient doing what she can today While potential therapies for HHT feel more tenable today than ever before, I found I could not sit on the sidelines. I never View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
imagine that T-Pain’s hit “Buy you a drank” gave him the confidence to walk up to me. Despite having met in the club, our love has taken us all over the world. Just two months after we met, we went on a 3-day trip to Mexico, group trips... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
experiential selfies on Instagram and Snapchat. THE VERDICT: While none of the fashionista judges could imagine themselves renting a wardrobe from Hilton, they all admired the idea of creating an immersive, personalized, almost fantastic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
of new companies rising, but it’s hard today to imagine the handful of giants that loom so tall over the tech world allowing themselves to go the way of VisiCalc or Lotus. And the more wealth they accrue to buy into new technologies,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
this way: Decisions on personal matters carry a greater weight of art; those that relate to work have more of science. Frances Pratt commented, "It is often the art that allows us to imagine that we are indeed making a controlled,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
professionals. In the first experiment, an online simulation, Kirgios, Chang, and Milkman asked 491 women to imagine that they were interns who needed to choose a department to join at a theoretical company. Participants browsed the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
straightforward, but if you have been as successful as he has, I can imagine it is very easy to get stuck in your ways. Q: Like many managers, Ferguson must manage for the short term (in-game and game to game), intermediate term (for a... View Details
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Considering Retirement - Alumni
realistically about what they require. What lifestyle do you want? As you reflect on your grander ambitions, don't neglect the routine life ahead of you. Imagine an ordinary day – what would that look like for you? Do you see yourself... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
of the theory you can imagine but never anything practical." Upon graduation, Hoa returned to Hanoi to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Press Center. There, she caught the eye of personnel from Harvard's Institute for... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Nations’ Human Development Report in 1996, Ramirez may not have imagined himself attending to the details of running the largest movie theater chain in Latin America. Yet, he relished the challenge. “Learning about the business world... View Details