Time And Wellbeing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra

Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Kong in April to attend the Global Alumni Conference "Greater China: Myths, Realities, Opportunities." This exciting event will explore timely and important issues with a distinguished group of participants,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

and map those across organizations and interests. Venture outside your tribe. Giving time or money in service of those who share a common trait or identity with us—whether... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Latin Flair

told the Financial Times (March 21, 2011) that they had to scrap their first few concepts for the Brazil-based Vostu, including hopes of creating a Latin American version of Facebook, before settling on social gaming in 2009. “It was... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

trying to move the basic building-block skills out of the required curriculum and into prematriculation. Our goal is to free up time for students to delve more deeply into the economic logic required to... View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

class for the first five weeks," he recalls. "My classmates were all the crème de la crème, with button-down shirts I had never seen before." He finally broke his silence during a discussion of the International Monetary Fund. "I had a great View Details

09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase

my own money, I was scared. So, when you’re investing your own money, you’re very, very cautious. So, I got close a couple of times and then didn’t get there. I think part of it was luck. I got close on a... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles

Hilfiger. But chairman Marjorie Yang doesn’t spend much time talking about apparel anymore. Instead, she’s talking about the importance of improving the livelihood of workers (which reduces turnover) and... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

both to help fund the Center and to chair its steering committee. At 71, the legendary venture capitalist now works out of a quiet San Francisco office. He spends much of his time serving on corporate View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Giving Kids a Better Chance

entrepreneurial, to drive change. We went into South LA and East LA and Inglewood, into communities that had great kids, but frankly the kids had been failed for a really long View Details

01 Feb 1999
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

She has taught at the Wharton School and at the United Nations Economic Development Mission in the Republic of Belarus. A former assistant director of Admissions at HBS, she is the past president of TriCom Ventures View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

pharmaceutical, medical product, hotel, banking, and building product industries, the authors examined the findings of twelve profiles conducted in four companies. In those organizations, the same six issues arose View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

actually only a small part of that, even though it’s become a meaningful contributor to the overall response, shortening the time between when you test positive for COVID and your contacts get notified,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

Education participants who took his courses. "Jai cared greatly about what students learned, and it showed every time he entered the classroom," commented HBS professor Roy Shapiro. "He set high standards.... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

athlete: “I spend as much time outdoors as I can, but I always try to squeeze in a little bit of what I consider ‘work.’ Social media tends to start out my day, then email correspondence with sponsors and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 1999
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Jeff Cruikshank

I was hired as the HBS Bulletin editor only about six months after John McArthur took over as the new Dean of the School. He was young - 46, younger than I am now, which I find sobering - but boy, I was really young. My local champion hid my bicycle View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank

01 Mar 2016
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Delivering Trust

those who had contributed through free, personal Skype sessions. “Every call reminded us that we were dealing with a very human subject and creating something by, and for, a community,” says Jake. “Seeing in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

for readers? I hope readers will say to themselves, “Oh my gosh, I can predict whether this product is going to be successful in the market. It actually is not a crapshoot.” And if the theory helps you predict with much more clarity that... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example, sound planning generally requires... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules

was your experience? I remember sitting beside a colleague in the office one day, early on in my career. Both of us were minding our own business when a higher-up from the company walked by and said to my colleague, “Are you so-and-so?... View Details

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