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  • March 2014
  • Article

Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Management Teams
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  • 05 Oct 2016
  • News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

world.” She added that the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a BSL-1 rated facility, which means that teams will work with materials that pose no danger to anyone outside the lab. The View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • Research Summary

Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders

By: Robert Simons

This project studies the life choices made by a variety of people who have left a lasting legacy. Using biographical data, we are examining the choices that high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they chose to follow. The leaders we study come... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Work-life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Success
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
  • February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO

By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia Cuellar
After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining growth, defending industry, leadership, preserving... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Microfinance; Initial Public Offering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Competition; Value Creation; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • 27 Apr 2020
  • News

Three Equations for a Happy Life

  • 08 Feb 2019
  • News

Does it matter if Amy Klobuchar is a mean boss?

  • June 2002
  • Background Note

Note on the Value of Life

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Carlos Gonzalez
This case summarizes how American courts measure damages in wrongful death suits. Various standards are compared, as are their implications for business management. View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Courts and Trials; Business or Company Management; Standards; Negotiation; United States
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  • 31 Jan 2020
  • Video

A Community of Entrepreneurs Shaping the Future of Life Science

  • 19 Apr 2023

Life at HBS Chat: MBA Students in the Diverse Ability Affinity Group (DAAG)

Join us for a virtual Life at HBS Chat with the Diverse Ability Affinity Group (DAAG). This event is a unique opportunity to hear from current HBS students in DAAG regarding their MBA experience. These... View Details
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • News

Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

  • 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 View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 26 Dec 2014
  • News

Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda and Vincent Yao
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor market outcomes. We exploit the plausibly random debt discharge due to the inability of National Collegiate,... View Details
Keywords: Student Debt; Private Student Loans; Legal Settlement; Mobility; Debt Collection; Debt Relief; Borrowing and Debt; Personal Finance; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • 1998
  • Journal Article

Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
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  • 2005
  • Book

Fit In Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor, The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life

By: Blythe J. McGarvie
While studying and practicing business effectiveness, leadership expert Blythe McGarvie uncovered a vital lesson: successful leaders are systems thinkers. Two forces power business systems: integration (Fit In) and transformation (Stand Out). By mastering the FISO... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Leadership; Transformation
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Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan
We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis
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    Second Chance: Life Without Student Debt

    Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor View Details
    • 01 Jun 2008
    • News

    HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

    Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial... View Details
    Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 03 Aug 2021

    Life at HBS Chat: Club Conferences

    Life At HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. These current students will share their backgrounds and talk about how they have cultivated their personal and... View Details