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- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
Workers who used to be fine with regular office hours pre-pandemic are still struggling, as the pandemic continues to affect their availability and the predictability of their work hours. Parents with vaccinated kids could still find their View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and students who suddenly found... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
would you want your children to be these people? Defining your own yardstick for success can often be quite difficult, according to Stevenson. "A ton of books on success all say, 'Choose your target and shoot at it,'" he said.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
game board, whole sections of which were grayed out and unplayable, she says. Her professional network, skills, and expertise were all intertwined with an industry that felt toxic. From 2006 to 2008, by then “hiding out” as a stay-at-home mom of her two View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
and children by not only providing medical care, but also working to rehabilitate people’s homes and provide vocational training for parents. She initially shied away from seeking help from the rich and powerful—people she saw as greedy... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be careful not to treat workers like children by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
raising a family in a land that delivers Franklin Roosevelt's (and Norman Rockwell's) four freedoms. Still others dream of their children accessing the highest possible level of education, living healthy lives, being good citizens in... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
apps to improve their and their children’s health outcomes. Ovia seeks to improve poor maternal health outcomes, particularly among women and children of color, adopting as its existential intent the provision of “equal care, longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
of numerous organizations including One Mind, a nonprofit focused on catalyzing change in how mental health is treated and perceived, and 10 Million Names, a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
user as the customer to the user as the product. The best defense against any form of totalitarianism is, as Zuboff puts it, “naming and taming.” Her book does the naming. She believes it’s up to each of us, our children, and their View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
who joined the Climate Circle one year later, teaches children ages 3-11 about climate in six countries. They were recognized as a UNESCO Green Citizens Initiative for their positive and empowering approach to teaching this complex topic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
have a clue as to how Internet stocks are valued and as a result tend to stay away from them. How would you rate your personal computing skills? My children would say laughable, but I can check my e-mail and surf the Net. James A. Stern I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
from which his and Cathy’s three children graduated. There is, however, a second religion in the family: sports. Brennan, a marathon runner, coached his kids’ teams to the point that some neighborhood parents thought he worked for the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner
stayed in our apartment off campus, which is about halfway between the business and law school. You can definitely still live on campus if you have a partner or children – the only housing not available to you is the dorms. There are... View Details
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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
systemic change in K–12 education. Publications Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo January 2024 | Economic Journal Can investing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James Dimon, MBA 1982
Salomon Smith Barney, the Travelers Group, and Citigroup, which he helped build into the world’s largest financial services company through tight management and astute mergers. Both Dimon’s father and grandfather worked as stockbrokers, but he never felt forced to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
which opened in late January, stars Brendan Fraser as Crowley, Keri Russell as Aileen, and Harrison Ford as Dr. Robert Stonehill, a composite of the doctors who treated the Crowley children and researched a treatment. Extraordinary... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His marriage was a success. He loved the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Valley, bringing his wife and two young children along with him. For Mikitani, the 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northeastern Japan brought back memories of the earlier disaster. This time, however, he was in a position to... View Details