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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
Business. Written by Timothy Butler and James Waldroop, director and associate director, respectively, of the School's MBA Career Development Programs, the book presents a business-focused, step-by-step approach to evaluating one's career with an eye to finding... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
Smarter Risks in Business by Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson (Portfolio/Penguin Putnam) Professor Stevenson and Shapiro (MBA ’81) show how to increase the odds on the business and life bets you choose to take, using a quick... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
getting in shape, it is a process. There's no magic bullet, but in the long run, this process will help you experience a greater level of satisfaction in your life and career. —Robert Steven Kaplan is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
ahead,” he says of the iconic brand. “What’s important to me is the satisfaction of seeing an organization that has been failing for years become a great place to work, from the shop floor all the way on up, and produce a great result for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
than anything, and that perhaps I was called to ministry,” he says. “I went to my rector to talk about it, and he said, ‘What took you so long?’ Less than a year later, I was in seminary.” Quainton gave up a six-figure salary and a comfortable View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
Mitch Tuchman and Scott Puritz (photo by Kim Marshall) Mitch Tuchman (MBA 1982) was a successful software entrepreneur in the exuberant 1990s when his first son, Jack, was born. A year later, Tuchman’s life changed: He and his wife... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
believer in the importance of giving back to the community. "It's a source of deep satisfaction that the database management tools and techniques first developed at Epsilon have allowed hundreds of nonprofit organizations to profitably... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
portfolio familiar to any executive. Courtesy Amy Jen Su Courtesy Amy Jen Su What trends in the business world are creating new pressures on leaders? Organizational life in general has gotten more complicated. Work has become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
we want to give back, but none of us, individually, knows how to do that. I can write a check, but have no idea who to give it to, and no idea how it's going to be used. There's not the satisfaction of seeing an impact. So, guess what?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
the company’s global brand. Petersen, who joined the company in 2004 as head of marketing, says he’s never seen another business open its meetings with meditation, or offer free yoga classes to all its employees. Yeung adds that enabling staff “to live a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
managed to achieve success and satisfaction in both realms. She related how in June 1983, six months pregnant with her first child, she became the Times' highest-ranking woman when the paper named her deputy metropolitan editor. She took... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
captured the redoubt. Hamilton, sword in hand and the first person to leap into the fray, could not have written a better script or carried it off with more élan. It was the perfect culmination of his time in the army, and it made him a legitimate national hero....... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
class would be working in small business. François Glemet speaks for many of us in the profile he recently wrote for this year's reunion: "I have to admit that, back in '74, I did not have the remotest idea that this is how my life would... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
relentless innovation and laser-eyed attention to detail are the primary drivers of success. And despite, or perhaps because of, those demands, these manufacturing executives also describe the sense of deep satisfaction their work can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
affect a retiring person’s day-to-day experience in the final months of their career, as well as their early years of retirement—and how life satisfaction depends largely on alignment among the three. TALK:... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth." Helping to lead a revolution of... View Details