HBS Alumni Bulletin - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-108.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRospil.info Paul M. Healy, Karthik Ramanna, and Matthew ShafferHarvard Business School Case 112-033 What should business leaders do about corruption? In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

predicted, success and failure. Not an onion, certainly. Maybe an avocado: a fruit with a skin that seems tough but still allows for easy bruising by outside forces, with a certain amount of highly perishable reward below—depending on whether you choose well in the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

500 times our money.” In the anecdotes that follow, alumni tell their own tales of a haunting “pass” and share the only return that came of it: some hard lessons learned. use this navigation to explore the anecdotes Don’t Be Dogmatic I... View Details

22 Feb 2018
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My First Job

careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm,... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

I've had all the help and support I could have asked for, beginning right here on campus with our faculty, staff, and students, and moving out to the University context and to our alumni and other friends. It's a wonderful job. BULLETIN:... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase

acquisition entrepreneurship—which involves acquiring a small business and running it as CEO. It’s an incredibly enjoyable listen, filled with vibrant, human conversations about the challenges and opportunities of this path that so many View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of the United Kingdom. We asked... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman, in providing the gift for this... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

time with the staff, student, and alumni communities. And while I haven't spent as much time with our faculty, we know that the work we have to do there is really important, and we'll be ramping that up throughout the coming year. The... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Cold Call Horror Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Fall Reunions, the podcast team set up our microphones in Spangler Hall and asked alumni to tell us about those terrifying moments when—as is tradition at HBS—they... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

industry executives, HBS alumni active in the industry, industry investors, and well-known chefs and restaurateurs. Background. 9 in 10 consumers say they enjoy going to restaurants and half of consumers... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

scale infrastructure issues on a global level. A related case, "Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City," HBS No. 210-085, contains more real estate finance and less water infrastructure finance material than this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

make HBS a vibrant, innovative, principled place, a place that our alumni will be proud of, and a place that will earn the trust and the respect of the society we serve. That's my commitment. View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical device company, an apartment listings app, and an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

Athens and is featured in boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. More importantly, Mareva says, HBS is where she and Kyriakos met in 1994, at a reception for Greek students at the now-bygone... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

text, four HBS alumni demonstrate what they and their companies are specifically doing to promote sustainable development. Their efforts show how environmental strategies can both enhance productivity and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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