Filter Results:
(860)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,724)
- People (2)
- News (860)
- Research (1,075)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (37)
- Faculty Publications (254)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,724)
- People (2)
- News (860)
- Research (1,075)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (37)
- Faculty Publications (254)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
After two semesters at HBS, Daisy Wademan (MBA ’02) found herself looking forward to the last day of class when faculty members traditionally share personal stories and dole out life advice. So inspiring did she find these gems that she decided to take on the task of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Bulletin to talk about this latest project. In the conversation excerpted here, she discusses her own character arc, the particular superpower of the graphic novel, and why comic-book writing is more nuanced than one might assume. “So if... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Pledge of Allegiance
years, emperors have been lying, saying, ‘I will not take over your land, and I will not raise taxes.’ So write it down. Have a witness and put it on the web and keep it there.” View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio on the ‘Principles’ of Tough Love
than 3 million times. This month, Dalio will release a much-buzzed about book expanding on his tough-love philosophy, Principles: Life & Work. “Underneath what may seem like a clinical, emotionless approach is something different and far more poignant,” the New York... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Research Online
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Mayer's decision to bring work-at-home Yahoo! employees back to the office has set off a firestorm. Assistant Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan writes on how to mitigate the problem.... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
In the ‘Spotlight’
When Josh Singer graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a joint JD/MBA, he headed to Los Angeles with the idea of working on the business side of media and entertainment. He interned at the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, but in a plot twist so typical for Tinseltown, he... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
everyone was super mean. I apparently spoke back to one of my superiors and they made me write a five-page paper [about] why talking back was not okay. I was pretty pissed. I found one superior who was somewhat kind and I said “I'm not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations; Augustine’s account of his mother’s death in Confessions; an extract from the historian Polybius’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
articulate and eloquent writing by an addict about the conflict they go through in treatment.” I kept finding more notebooks. They were hard to read, but helped me better understand the six tumultuous years she was sick and her underlying... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
chance to experience before.” Khoja—who has defied cultural norms by hiring women—remains optimistic about Afghanistan’s future despite the country’s continuing instability. “You can’t erase the fact that in the past decade, one-third of the country has learned to read... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
addressing that challenge, and having everyone come together on a way it can get done by a mutually agreed deadline. On the subject of management styles, you write about the wisdom of adapting your personal style to that of your boss.... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
question at a conference for alumni magazine editors in late March, I instinctively reached for my pen, hoping his answer would help explain why HBS alumni write such a torrent of class notes — edited down to nearly 2,000 pages a year.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Howard's Gift
"We can all use a wise man or woman in our lives," Eric Sinoway writes (with Merrill Meadow) in his new book, Howard's Gift. For Sinoway, a student at the Harvard Kennedy School, that wise man was HBS professor Howard Stevenson, Sinoway's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so much for themselves as for their... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Paul, and Howard Raiffa influenced my switch from a business career to academia. My 10 years as a senior research fellow at HBS completely changed my life." Now in his 80s, Vlachoutsicos seems only to be gaining in energy and productivity. He View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
to emerge. And I don’t want to write off the baby boomers.” The key to cultivating leaders is to set the right expectations, said Kanter. Increasingly, she sees this happening. “I think we are going to move into a time where idealism and... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Sounds Like a Plan
notepad and we started drinking wine, and we switched to Scotch, and we just started to endeavor to write down everything that was brain-dead about the airline.” The result was the one-page Go Forward Plan, with easy-to-understand... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
president and general manager at the time, Quin has since seen her life change as a result of her terrifying ordeal, and she is currently taking time off from her business career to write a book about the incident. While on a two-week... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
fictional, the descriptive events bear such close resemblance to reality that the reader is left with an informed perspective on the people, the culture, and the day-to-day business realities within China.” When asked what motivated him to View Details