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19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

people that are just superstars in everything that they do and other people are not. And the thing that I feel the proudest about is that it's really about helping anyone, whether they are-- whatever they... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Making a Case for Women

and Assistant Professor Myra M. Hart. Hart, a key player in last November's Women Leading Business Executive Education seminar (see page 32), will coordinate the program at HBS for the Division of Research.... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Books

strategy. The text of Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy is supported by more than thirty new case studies, all of which have been taught in the HBS Executive Education and... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

toward its $100 million goal. The first round of grants, totaling $1 million, was awarded to 20 local and regional organizations, with a focus on addressing urgent racial justice or pandemic-related challenges. Inaugural recipients... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

each other, the School has rolled out section e-mail lists. By accessing www.alumni.hbs.edu/class/section, you will be able to send an e-mail message to your entire MBA section or Executive Education class - a wonderful way to share news... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

more than anything else, I think I've done just about all of them." Walling's interest in educational reform runs deep, and when you ask him about his experiences on the front lines of the battle for better... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

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 Apr 1997
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Learning from the Past

at Harvard College, Strassler had had little time to pursue that interest after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. But now he was able to turn his attention to history - and to other interests in View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization

with which they do interact mostly doesn’t have putative news on it. The first generation of social media users, by contrast, didn’t have the proper training. My generation just assumed that anything we read on Twitter and Facebook is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

working my way up in finance or private industry, and then I’d move into nonprofit work on women’s education in the developing world.” How she’s fulfilling that goal instead: Leading all-women expeditions... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1998
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A Career to Smile About

challenge after another. "Take India, for example," she says. "How do you get people who use twigs to brush their teeth to trade up to something as alien as toothpaste?" (The answer, she explains, is through grassroots education View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

Tom Volpe Prior to earning degrees from Harvard College and the London School of Economics, Tom Volpe had worked as a furniture mover and paperboy, among other occupations. "I never had to wear a jacket... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise

population is willing to pay $92 billion a year to protect, or not lose, the national parks and the service’s key programs such as education and historical preservation.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

appeared in 1925, Harvard Business School has sent forth tens of thousands of MBA and Executive Education graduates into the world. As managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

and the exchange of ideas, but will also help catch problems, flaws, and weaknesses before they multiply. Koehn: From the standpoint of organizations, it strikes me that what we have is an opportunity for... View Details