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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and exercises. They get immediate feedback, and there are game mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Bridges: Remembering the “Why”
I'm not going to lie, I began Bridges feeling pretty grumpy. I was running late, I hadn't eaten breakfast, and I absolutely positively did not want to reflect. Big questions about my identity, values, and life after HBS? I'd have plenty of View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
Government leaders rushing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March gave companies little time to shift to an all-virtual workforce. Ready or not, many businesses had to become more digital. But true digital transformation takes far more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Portrait Project
Sheharyar Malik
My voice trembled as I recounted the times my father beat my mother at night; the eight hours I spent locked up in a bathroom as a three-year-old, with only my mother’s soothing voice from the other side of the door reminding me that I... View Details
Expanding Horizons
BHI's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History offered me an incredible opportunity to learn and grow as a business historian. I arrived at HBS with research and teaching experience in the history of US business, but my View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
break down trust across teams or among bosses, colleagues, and subordinates, and Galford and Drapeau have developed useful and succinct recommendations for coping with such difficult situations. Other Alumni Books How to Become a Great... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
family companies in the Gulf Region was written for a conference organized by the Kennedy School in Doha, Qatar in 1997. The frameworks and approaches I used in this article really helped me get some leverage on understanding the problems... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
still unclear what impact the digital world was going to have on business. “We were the first year that email addresses were given and the first year of the Internet at HBS,” Beck recalled. “And nobody used... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
I figured the world didn’t need another wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the transmission problem.” The complexity of expanding the US electric grid becomes clear when Skelly describes Clean Line’s $2.5... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
of those things that was put on BuzzFeed and then copied over to another...But we make many decisions every day and most of them don't actually hold us up too much. But it is incredible to me how many times... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
taught the first-year MBA course in management accounting and later a second-year elective in management control systems. He also taught in a variety of Executive Education programs. “I’d never taught using the case method, so that took... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
glance, it may seem that students in business school, and leaders in the broader business world, skew heavily towards being extroverted. As I approach the end of my time at HBS however, I realize just how many other introverts I’ve met (a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
(Finance), who also won the award last year. Next to take the podium was Class Day student speaker John Brown. An MBA degree from HBS is not an end itself, Brown noted, “but rather the education here is a trail map helping us to see a... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
four half-terms, allowing faculty more creativity in shaping innovative courses and students more flexibility in building their schedules. While less far-reaching on the surface, over time the modular approach promises to transform the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
RK: Truly. I mean, I used to take the baby with me all the time on the road looking at businesses. It was often an icebreaker and chatting with business owners, you know, it was just what I did because I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
really great cultures,” said Donna Dubinsky (MBA ’81), cofounder and CEO of Numenta and former CEO of Palm Computing and Handspring. “That’s what pulled us through the hard times and made View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
I graduated from Harvard Business School at the tail end of the dot-com bubble and was fortunate to join Goldman Sach’s high-tech investment banking group after graduation. However, the bubble burst got me, and I was laid off for a short View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
equity with Berkshire Partners, Aaron came to HBS “to gain an understanding of how businesses function from a perspective beyond the financial analysis and business due diligence lens.” But during his time at Morgan Stanley and Berkshire,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail