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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
world, though the words used for the numbers differ. If you're a chemistry instructor, whether in Beijing, Beirut, or the Bay Area, you can be confident that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
words that seemed to leak some of the stress right out of the room: “Everything is going to be all right.” In that moment, I realized that following his entrepreneurial dreams... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage company is much more along the lines of “I just don’t know if any of my assumptions are correct.” Use very simple words when describing your company. As an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
occur often enough to reach as many mouths as possible. He designed the organization like a startup, built to scale, with chapters of “Robins” around the world who team up with restaurants and other... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
the same experience and credentials?" Analyzing the content and efficacy of roughly three hundred one-minute pitches, the researchers found that certain words and phrases could be used as signaling devices... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
development in our culture and our society that is going to change the world," said Clark, who backed up his words with an invitation to hold the event at HBS again next fall. On the first full day of the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
absolutely take the same five principles and say, "How do these apply to my daily life at home?" April: One of the principles you include as we discussed is the idea of peace and it's not a concept or a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
e-mail signatures also include the chant acronym, IGTBISE. One sectionmate whose name is Beau (rhymes with “faux” as in “faux pas”) was accidentally called “Byoo” (as in the first part of the word... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
Thomas Murphy (MBA 1949) A cold call during Thomas Murphy’s first year convinced him to make the most of his Harvard Business School experience. When a professor called on a few students, including Murphy, with a question about the case,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
today: 1. Insist on doing everything through channels. 2. Make speeches. 3. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. 4. Refer all matters to committees. 5. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. 6. Haggle over precise View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
benefit a wide variety of businesses, however, Sviokla offered a word of caution. "If you dive into the marketspace," he told the OPM graduates, "you have to expect that things... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
Words drive change. As the idea becomes more generally accepted, it will be a step toward a private sector that will be willing to help rebuild democracy. More specifically, I believe that every businessperson should be lobbying to get... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
paused in describing herself and her role in founding her company, settling on “business strategy customer leadership person.” Barna urged her to call herself a visionary. The crowd of burgeoning entrepreneurs erupted in applause. Hyman... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and data about the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
50-Plus Years of Entrepreneurship I was disturbed by the June Bulletin's infographic showing that HBS had been teaching entrepreneurship for only 50 years (page 7). As a student at HBS, I took Management of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
education, as superintendent. In partnership with the charismatic Stanford, Nielsen worked to bring about a "transformation"—a word he much prefers over "reform." In a series of controversial moves, the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
to be a very good meeting. I went and sat in a chair in front of his desk. The guy completely excoriated me, and there was almost no curse word that he didn't have a full command of, and used it, and it was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the... View Details