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- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Books@Baker: Joseph Badaracco
Your Busy Life, Professor Badaracco will share practical advice for making time in the “cracks and crevices” of our everyday lives to reflect, and help us make better decisions. Hosted by Books@Baker and HBS Connects, this live Zoom event... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
The Entrepreneurial Venture, a volume of readings selected by HBS faculty members William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Amar Bhidé, is designed to serve as a handbook for those considering or engaged in the entrepreneurial process. Filled... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Take the time, propose an hour meeting with someone regularly, if they’re a mentor, and they’re willing to do it. DM: Taylor, what is the advice that Byron has in this book that you think is most relevant to your HBS classmates? TB: One... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
bought graves and everything. So that’s the way my husband was. JH: After her husband passed away, April turned to the community for advice on how to keep it going. AE: So Bob’s wife, Sharon and I, belong to a women’s organization here in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
Lucas Photo Courtesy Betsy Corsiglia For his first book, Stuart E. Lucas (MBA ’89) tackles a big topic. In Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It (Wharton School Publishing, 2006), the chairman of Wealth Strategist Network offers View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
9/11, the corporate accounting scandals — made me question what I wanted to do with my life. During this crisis of faith, I found the personal stories and advice that my professors delivered at the end of the term to be very... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A talent scout for tomorrow’s Africa
personal goals and into the life of the larger community.” He gives tours of the campus and advice on application materials and makes connections between applicants and fellow members of his club who have experience or expertise in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
$10 billion. In 2001, in its current "depressed" condition, the industry will attract $40 billion or more of fresh capital. Key elements in evaluating a business proposal Great people pursuing a big market with a plan that gives them a sustainable, almost "unfair"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
he acquired the struggling firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Thus began Gordon’s 65-year career at Kidder, which he helped lead to prominence as one of the top underwriting and M&A firms in the world, while also imparting trusted financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
office in Naples, Florida. Despite his full-time schedule, Thayer says that he doesn’t feel like he’s working. His advice to other alumni who are thinking of making a career change: “Do something you would be happy to do every day for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
expertise with HBS alumni by leading a job counseling workshop, titled On Effective Job Search Strategies, to Boston-area graduates and at reunions. “Neil’s insights are time-tested, his advice is unique, and his words of wisdom are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
advice to MBAs just starting their careers, their responses contained a similar advocacy for what one of them termed a "wholistic" approach to life and work, with emphasis on the "whole." "We all have to be true to ourselves in the end"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
years of experience (and the fact that you have seen recessions and market fluctuations), what is your advice to less-seasoned HBS graduates? O'Lear: Buckle your seatbelt. If you accept the premise that the U.S. postindustrial economy... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
a colleague. And technology disruption has really changed industries and driven new competition. The folks I’ve worked with describe that external environment as always tugging on them. How did you develop the advice in the book? The five... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Year in Books 2016
Andrew Miller (MBA 1988) The Future of Books — Milena Alberti (MBA 2001), CFO of Penguin Random House, on publishing’s bright prospects Room to Write — Alumni share snapshots of the spaces that inspire them Passion Projects — Unexpected pursuits on the page Dear Future... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
2024, and caught up with Greene recently to talk about how the business has evolved, how he prepped for the Shark Tank experience, and his advice to entrepreneurs.—Dan Morrell What has changed since September of last year? As I shared... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
have lots of data about farmers’ soil type, crop preferences, willingness to take risk, and access to finance. Then we give them advice that’s directly related to their particular circumstances,” Cole says. Besides India, the Boston-based... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Risk and Rewards
Adebayo Ogunlesi (MBA 1979) is chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners. In this interview he talks about the rewards of taking risks on unexpected opportunities. “People often ask me, ‘What is the best advice you... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
to replicate his brilliance. He encouraged me to write my first HBR article back in the early 1990s and was truly my coach and mentor in the work I do today. None of it could have happened without him. That mentorship shaped who I am today; I still go back to Len for... View Details