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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
government-funded pensions and health insurance). And Detroit’s troubles magnify — and perhaps exacerbate — the fact that across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
crisis. So I was exhausted. And, I felt like I'd let everybody down. And just the endless criticism. You know, there are a couple reasons why I fired people when I fired them. And one is when they lost their confidence, right? When they... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
leader and a better human being for embracing the pain of this experience. Barry Rowan (MBA 1983) EVP & CFO, Cool Planet Energy Systems Seventh time’s a charm When I left HBS my plan was to work for a small company for a couple of years... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
a couple of young MBAs. But fate works in funny ways. For one, it brought Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) together in Section I. The two became friends and started dating near the end of their first year at HBS, but... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Reset is focused on a couple of basic truths about most people in prison, Anderson says. First, prisoners will get out someday. The majority of US inmates are serving sentences of eight years or less, and many will be released before... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
one group of people over others. It's actually leading to you selecting people that are worse performing. And there's an article that was published a couple years ago by a group at MIT that showed exactly this, that, unfortunately,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson, and can understand language as it’s spoken, as a person can, “There is no shortage of problems Watson can solve,” says CFO Deana Korby. “If anything, we just have to pick the right problems.” Adds GM David Kenny: “We think there’s a View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
would trade a couple of years of doing what you’re doing.” And the same for me. I’m like, “Yeah, it would be nice to have some money in the bank, too.” So we have a good laugh about that. It’s a tough thing to have both. I hear people all... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
for a company for a couple of years. It’s then that many of them decide to go on to graduate school,” Shibayama says. “In Japan, many of the students decide their position for life as an undergraduate.” He prefers the American path, he... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
shrinking labor pool of talented people," Thomas continues, "today's companies are courting and working with diverse constituencies that were all but invisible to firms even a couple of decades ago. It is now widely accepted that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
although some kind folks would just walk them over to our unit and put them on the porch. I tied them up in bundles, stored them in my folks’ bedroom, and every couple of weeks we took them to a place in Cambridge that paid $1 per 100... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
management for a couple of years. I loved P&G, but I don’t have a lot of respect for authority, and I don’t like answering to people. So I applied to HBS. Why HBS? I always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and I wanted to learn about... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
be ahead than behind. It's pretty primitive, I think. That's part of my nature. Dan: I want to talk about a couple foundational moments at Blackstone that you detail in the book. Right around 1989, when you invested in Edgcomb. Can you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
getting ready to tour in New York City and perform at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, go to South by Southwest. This year I was invited to be a TED Fellow in the class of 2020 and speak on the TED mainstage in Vancouver, which happens in April. We had an incredible,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of the wonders that surround each of us is coupled with Flatt’s candid, empowering reflections on existence and his illness. The CMO’s Social Media Handbook by Peter Friedman (MBA 1983) (LiveWorld) Thirty years of experience informs this... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
agenda for the next few years. One of the ways I have spent my last couple of months is to talk to a large number of individuals—faculty, staff, students, alumni—and just trying to absorb ideas about different things we might do. I first... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
me a lot of leeway. He became a great mentor--still a good friend now. And so, I was able to create the interactive division at the very beginning before the commercial internet. I did the first deal with AOL and VH1 that funded the interactive division. And then it... View Details