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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Coach for Life

college. Sweating the Small Stuff Each practice is planned in handwritten detail; nothing is too small to be ignored. Coach Hurley personally sweeps the court before games because "nobody sweeps the floor better than me." WINning Formula... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

development, we strongly believe that the delivery of water and sanitation services to the city of Manila significantly affects the quality of life of the public, especially those in marginalized communities. This opportunity to have a... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Life in Lockdown

building leadership skills and working relationships as it was about building businesses. Planning the program for Spring Break would give students time to dedicate solely to fleshing out their business ideas from concept to product... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Review), the book shows the value of applying scholarly business theories to major life decisions. The key idea is that the same causal mechanisms that drive big businesses can be just as effective in driving our personal lives. Religion... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • Video

Burden Seats Get New Life

  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve? Bill Sahlman: Writing a business View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in life or work? Can I resist the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

A Life by Design

colors, patterns, swatches of fabric, and garment samples assembled to plan Old Navy’s fall 2005 clothing lines. Ross, casually dressed in a style reflective of Old Navy’s “democratic” approach to fashion, notes that such public displays... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Turning Point: Life Cycle

Instead, there’s often an amazing portfolio of smaller activities that change communities and change lives, just as I saw on my ride last fall. It’s the little things we do that add up to a good life and to making a difference in the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

The School of Life

Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so... View Details
Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management
  • 27 Mar 2019
  • News

Life Is a Startup

about, say, the allocation of roles and decision making, and applying them to his life. For Wasserman, the meeting was revelatory. Anyone—founders or not—could gain all these profound life lessons from the counterintuitive ways that... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Toward a Life Well Lived

students plan more intentionally for the path ahead, navigate the bumps that arise, and stay true to their values, Perlow created a second-year course, Crafting Your Life: The Tactics and Practices of the First 10 Years Post-MBA. “What I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • June 2004
  • Case

Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm. In addition to formulating a vision and strategy, the two firms must... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 13 Oct 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

thriving on variety and excitement. Kraus explains that the course is really about finding out who you are and how you define your success in this world and in this life. "We sit back, look ahead, and ask, "What do I really want in the long term?' " The View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 08 Aug 2018
  • News

Getting Life Back in Balance

Limestone Coast of South Australia, where he had just been hired as CEO of the Wattle Range Council, a position similar to that of a city manager in the United States. “I felt like it was the first time in my life that I had made a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Managing the Business of Life

we get together we have lots to share." Dodi envisions resuming the traveling life once her children, now seven and eight, are in college. "I'd also like to get into politics," she muses. Governor Dodi? Stay tuned. —Marguerite Rigoglioso... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success – Part 2

The last post, Event Planning for Recruiting Success – Part 1, reviewed the two main recruiting events at HBS, Company Presentations and public Company Conversations. In Part 2 we will cover hosting virtual events, meeting with targeted... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 19 May 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

running a large industrial organization in India; Arvind adds financial acumen and investing skills from his private equity experience; and Raj has been through the start-up life in the for-profit world. At HBS, perhaps the most critical... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services
  • News

Preserve Your Past to Create a Compelling Retirement Plan

  • 09 Jan 2012
  • News

Life and Death Leadership - 3 Principles

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