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- 01 Mar 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)
making something happen for yourself. Stuyvesant High School was a big influence because it was such a meritocracy. In college I double majored in English literature and psychology. How people are wired was inherently interesting to me.... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
market and sell products. The Moral Leader uses great literature to teach great leadership, a dream of a class for this English major. We studied how great leaders—fictional characters as well as history’s heroes and antiheroes—use... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
simple: read out loud. He started with nursery rhymes, worked his way up to the Encyclopedia Brown series, and kept going. Charlotte’s Web was the first book in English to make him cry. Kim fell in love with books, later majoring in English View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 12 Jan 2018
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The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter
- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Encyclopedia Brown series, and kept going. Charlotte’s Web was the first book in English to make him cry. Kim fell in love with books, later majoring in English literature at Haverford College and imagining what it would be like when he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
trajectories of both blockchain and artificial intelligence when growth is led by foundations rather than corporations. “This is playing itself out in real time,” Wu says. “Learning about new business models requires literature and cases.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
solutions. “Growing up in Greece in the 1980s, there were not many career opportunities,” says Stavropoulos, who appreciated the liberal arts education that Harvard offered. Although he enjoyed literature and writing, he pursued computer... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
1982 when she joined Symbolics, an all-male, MIT-led, artificial intelligence startup. She had learned about computers working as a technical writer after earning a degree in history and literature from Radcliffe. “I was the only MBA, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
with his extended family and staying in touch with OPM graduates. Arthur N. Turner (MBA '50) Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus As young man, Art Turner was drawn to literature and "to helping people learn." As a result, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
creativity. There’s even some psychological literature suggesting that the incidence of depression is higher in creative writers and artists — the depressed geniuses who are incredibly original in their thinking. But we found that when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
MORE Farzad on the lasting allure of 1980s Miami on the Skydeck podcast MORE Farzad on the lasting allure of 1980s Miami on the Skydeck podcast The Bookshelf Journalist Roben Farzad (MBA 2005) on his new nonfiction tale, Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
“For the Romans, being an emperor is all about contradictions, because they’ve got to be wildly ambitious, almost a lunatic, but they also have to...consult their peers and carefully use every segment of Roman society.” What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock market. It also suggests alternative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
are performed to a high standard. There is a vast literature on the choices, structures, and supporting systems involved in modern management, including strategy, organization structure, planning and resource allocation, and management... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
managers and with clergy and laypeople from a variety of Christian denominations; case studies of relevant programs for businesspeople; a survey of seminarians; a review of existing literature on executive spiritual development; and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on the same page. In his new book,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
degree in psychology, which informed his interest in the motivations around good deeds. Given their respective backgrounds in economics and social psychology, Exley and Zlatev each draw on different literature in their work, and their... View Details