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- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
geeky nerds. To counter those stereotypes, Qarnain made a point of gathering more diverse résumés for roles that didn’t explicitly require a white actor, hoping to gradually shift expected norms: “It requires an active decision to break... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
environment drastically. Suddenly, we found ourselves facing international competition.” Although he felt “a little bit torn,” Ramirez returned to Mexico. “My family had always been there for me, so I wanted to help in whatever way I could,” he says. In less than a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
(MBA 2013) In All Honesty My first job was in the college promotions department at Warner Bros. Records. I called the college radio stations to make sure they’d received the records I’d sent. When they asked for my opinion about them, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES Syrup works by integrating a retailer’s data—historical and real-time transactions and inventory, e-commerce patterns, and marketing and promotion plans, among other things—with weather, search,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
always says. There can’t be multiple people making decisions that conflict with each other. “While most people would recommend not bringing business to the dinner table, I personally believe that the two businesses––the one with my... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Man on a Mission
his life to a campaign to promote prostate-cancer awareness and education, including a Web site. The site, which taps into the experiences of patients and doctors, provides a lot of the information Girand could not find when he was... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
life, we make these types of decisions with our partners. We have some data now on time-saving purchases and heterosexual couples. The general pattern is that time-saving purchases promote relationship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
bathroom tissue manufacturer offers you a discount on its product. How much should you buy? If you stock up now, will the manufacturer have any incentive to give you a good deal later? Will your decision affect the competition between... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
affect some people? We can look at the numbers: A study by the Ascend Foundation found that in Silicon Valley, Asians are the racial group most likely to be hired but the least likely to be promoted from individual contributor to manager.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
to admit talented students regardless of their financial means, creating a diverse classroom that enhances the learning experience for all. Gender Initiative: This initiative was launched in 2015 to support research, teaching, and knowledge dissemination that View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
also knows its people, suppliers, customers, and future direction. Bower describes the inside outsider’s attributes and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this special type of leader. With a healthy supply of qualified internal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many things to change your professional circumstances, but there’s... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
Oteh's bold decisions have cleaned up the Nigerian capital markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country's stock market... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
(UWC) in New Mexico, a two-year high-school program that promotes international understanding among students from over eighty countries. “I met people who were very different from me, from the Soviet Union, South Africa, and Eastern... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to... View Details