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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
(PDF) Dean LeBaron, HBS 1960, was working for an investment services firm when he became interested in cutting-edge economic theories about portfolio management. One insight that captured his imagination was how computer models based on... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Stan O’Neal
native. “I find it terribly rewarding and humbling. It is hard for me to imagine anything I’d enjoy more.” O’Neal, named one of the “25 Most Powerful People in Business” by Fortune magazine this year, joined Merrill in 1986 as director of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
"get" phase 4, perhaps because it calls for a more intuitive and imaginative way of addressing a problem, but those who are less intuitive have to work harder. For phase 5, some people are more psychologically minded than others... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
in the first place. Am I imagining that this is a growing problem, or have I just been picking up the wrong books lately? Has it always been like this? Are we forgetting how to listen? If so, what are the reasons? What do you think? To... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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)
- 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
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
people when a part or system is about to fail. Often, only the senior management team's imagination limits new IT-based opportunities. Our research suggests the following: New technologies will continue to give companies the chance to... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
in that job control to accomplish a task? This list of resources may include people, budgets, and balance sheets. “Just imagine you are looking to take a job somewhere and they want you to drive $100 million in revenue,” Simons explains.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
head of it, and he was more than anything else a teacher." 37 Doriot championed the interplay of new ideas and creative individuals, the same principles he espoused at HBS. "Creation of processes and products, of ideas and industries, depends on men more than money, on... View Details
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS
and dreams with others without criticism. Now, after reading what I consider to be a sense of community, I can imagine that you might be skeptical that I would be able to find all of that in one place. But that’s the beauty of HBS! There... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
to imagine that we could inspire high performance with no employee engagement." Conant decided to grow the soup business, and he championed the idea of "winning" on two fronts--in the workplace and in the marketplace. To... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
years. Last October, I was in the hospital for a few weeks, and Bob would come every afternoon to spend the day with me. I’d introduce him around as my husband; no one batted an eye. I never imagined we’d see this happen. —Paul Raeder... View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
serious—a good way to end a stressful academic year before I started my professional career in Boston and he started his second year of his PhD program. Certainly, neither one of us imagined we’d spend that entire summer texting back and... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
would find out. It was mental and emotional overload. While that relationship ended, the fear of someone discovering ‘what’ I was did not. It took another five years before I finally got the courage needed to click that ‘approve’ button. Am I happy that I did, though!... View Details