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- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Leimsider has helped Safe Passage clarify its strategic goals. “We have a very specific understanding of what our job is. Our mission here is not simply to do as much good as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
units a year, but back when volumes were small, one full container of product would be everything I would have to sell for a quarter. And I had an entire container of goods that came damaged. I had to call up the customers who I fought so... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
Synthesis, a leadership assessment and development company. She’s seen a new generation of leaders who have grown up in a culture comfortable with personal therapy turn the C-suite stigma into a strength. “Getting help for the things you are less View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
remember that I only got one. That’s how I ended up at HBS. I try hard to have an open-door policy and listen to everyone. I’m lucky if I have one good idea a year. I’m tapped out by May. It’s the people who are dealing with customers,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
“Self-driving cars today know what they are seeing and how fast the object is moving, but they aren’t good at predicting what a human will do next,” explains Misra. “We want to help machines understand humans.” For Perceptive Automata,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
college, a good presence in the locker room, and the ability to compete in the classroom. But too often, Feickert says, these high-potential students lack “the recipe”—the knowledge they need to navigate the opaque college-recruitment... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
size, scale, and scope. Today, we see a specialization in activity: There are those who are really good at supporting large numbers of relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs, and then there are those that specialize in scaling businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
percent of Americans believed online dating was a good way to meet people, a 15 percent increase from a 2005 survey.) All of these online dating companies were selling similar things to different niches of the dating world. This first... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
as they interacted with the theater’s new amenities. On a whiteboard in Habeeb’s editing room, the outline of the IDEO case, drawn after shooting but before editing, remains. Starting from the pedagogical goals, it sketches the narrative arc of any View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
(photos courtesy of Sunny Stroeer) “When your Monday morning looked like this you know it’s going to be a good week,” Suzanne “Sunny” Stroeer (MBA 2011) wrote on Instagram recently. Her view: Sunrise from the snowy summit of Torreys Peak... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to retail maven, with 70-plus stores... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
Haring, and Jeff Koons, among many others. “I like to collect works by artists I’ve worked with and who’ve been good friends.” + ONLINE web-only content Advice for aspiring art collectors from Marc Weidner (MBA 2007) Advice to novice art... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
experience, reach more people, and build communities across HBS. Why is this important for the School? If we’re going to be the world leaders in business education, we can’t afford not to have this as a core competency. We have to be really View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
thoughtful. That’s what I want my classmates to do: Do good within your own businesses.” On leadership: “Leadership doesn’t have to look bold and powerful. It doesn’t have to meet that stereotype. For me, leadership is about building from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
prompt action—more so than when you frame a decision in terms of what you stand to gain,” John explains. These subtle design choices “can help you to make a good decision while preserving your free will,” she says. Peer-reviewed studies... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, through “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. Currently in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
problems are worse than they’ve ever been. Where do you see the US patent system in 5 or 10 years? LC: In a good world, some of the things that we have proposed for cleaning up the patent system itself and for fixing the patent litigation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be successful... View Details
Keywords: April White