Life Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

narrow target pay range for every position in the company can be made transparent without revealing the exact pay for any person. This can help employees in their career planning and ambitions." Tahoegrrl reminded us: "There are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

populated. We hopped in a small elevator and quickly arrived on the 7th floor. The open office floor plan had six rows of computers with the company’s CEO and the newest hire sitting practically shoulder to shoulder. We soon realized we... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details

Portrait Project

Soley Olafsson

diagnosed and treated patients with sicknesses of all kinds. Life can be hard, and sickness can make it harder. I have devoted my life to trying to temper that sickness – trying to cure or treat to the best... View Details

01 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead

support of my family and friends throughout the Conference planning process. Thank you for encouraging my dreams by creatively brainstorming with me, sponsoring the Conference in-kind, buying tickets on the first day of sales, and... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Ikenna Okezie

So far my life has been filled with exciting challenges along with God's blessings," says Ikenna Okezie. Indeed, "challenge" seems to be the operative word for the soft-spoken Okezie, who is about to become one of the first two people... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Portrait Project

Brandon Angelini

Weekends were for ambitious projects in my family. Someone would announce a plan for the day — it could be anything — and I remember the weekend that my mom decided we would make a picnic table. My parents are architects, well acquainted... View Details

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

student life was half academic, half ramen chef,” says Sasago, who interned at a popular Cambridge ramen eatery to fine-tune his cooking skills. Senior Lecturer Lena Goldberg’s elective course Challenges and Opportunities in the... View Details

Portrait Project

Neda Navab

certain that I would stand ready to sacrifice for my relationships. That was until circumstance called upon me to actually do so: The man I love landed his dream residency across the country – a six-hour flight from me, my family, and my dream job. Could I, in reality,... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

the life cycle of the company”—from proof of concept to platform and product development. It plans to focus first on creating oral versions of peptide hormone drugs used to treat rare endocrine and metabolic... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Peter Gumulia

Growing up in Indonesia, Peter Gumulia experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat. Discipline played an important role early on in my life.” This pushed Peter onto the national golf team when he was only... View Details

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Drew Keller

attend HBS to better understand how firms operate, what systems and assumptions underpin their decisions, and how we can rethink those assumptions to create a more equal and sustainable world. Coming to HBS is like... ...taking a break to think about my View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

current position for years to come, "retirement" has changed for many. Rethinking “Retirement” In many ways, the key to a successful retirement is the same as it is for a successful career: planning. But in the run-up to retirement, too few of us View Details

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

classmate David ‘Leron’ Anderson had been an analyst at First Boston. I was eating a Charles River po’boy at the Tasty in Harvard Square when he said, ‘You should try this investment banking stuff.’ I knew nothing about it. Zero.” No Plan... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

2017
Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent

I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets

Citation

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23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue management and highlights that discretion may have unintended negative costs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50023 Harvard Business School Case 516-092 The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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