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- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
opportunity for me to apply and see in real life some of what we learned in the Field and FGI courses – the challenges of working in unfamiliar environments.” Rahil’s... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
Klein. At each stop, she gained new knowledge and experience while advancing her own reputation as a change agent capable of leading a company to growth through new product design. Ross’ entrepreneurial... View Details
- 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 View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
my goal. When you ride a bike four to six hours a day, there’s a lot of time for thinking about all sorts of life events, large and small. Fifteen View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
learning with and supporting each other in the pursuit of a life well lived,” says Perlow. “We’ve come to understand that you can’t teach crafting your life in a semester; it’s... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review After a tumultuous two years of figuring out how to adapt and thrive in the face View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's... View Details
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS
of HBS while keeping my head above the proverbial water. And just like that, everything changed my EC year – the training wheels were off! Suddenly, there were so many choices: what courses to take, what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS
environment. I’ve learned so much, I’ve been challenged and pushed outside of my comfort zone, and I’ve grown in ways that I could not have imagined. Here are 5 lessons I’ve learned from my first year at... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
something they could do themselves. Or they may not recognize that, say, spending more on rent to live closer to work could put them in a better state of mind. Swapping money for time might be especially... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- January 2010
- Case
Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani
Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to... View Details
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley Spence. "Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani." Harvard Business School Case 810-072, January 2010.
- 11 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS
Each year, HBS sends a new class of freshly minted MBAs out into the world. Before the Class of 2015 embarked on their next adventure, we took the opportunity to chat with some View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS
The first few weeks of the first year at HBS can certainly be overwhelming: meeting 900 new people, learning how to prepare for cases and how to jump in at the right time in class, managing an influx View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
help veterans gain the skills they need to thrive in civilian life and to continue their mission of serving others,” says York. Tabitha Strobel (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan... View Details
- December 2020
- Article
Stock Market Returns and Consumption
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Kaveh Majlesi
This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual... View Details
Keywords: Capital Gain; Dividend Income; Consumption; Near-rational Behavior; Investment Return; Household; Spending; Behavior
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi. "Stock Market Returns and Consumption." Journal of Finance 75, no. 6 (December 2020): 3175–3219. (DFA Distinguished Paper Prize.)
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
dissatisfaction. In Italy, it’s a matter of scarce resources. In Brazil, it is the perception of or actual corruption. How do both create openings for far-right movements? Rettl: In the Italian case, there... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
“Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time in their life conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. Callahan was 41 when he took over Sail to Prevail in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? Being able to spend a lot of time with her! How do you make it work? I put everything on my calendar and my partner is great. What... View Details