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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
accounting books and doing things that hurt a lot of people at the end of the day. On a personal level, I lost two children. My wife was expecting triplets. Happiness comes within. It doesn't matter what happens to you, the choices you... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
seek out this sort of community of like-minded trackers or were you always happy with it being a solo pursuit? Grana: So I think when I began, which was around 2009, I wasn't even aware that there could or would be a community. So I... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
company: I read a story that early on an engineer wanted to institute happy hour Fridays and a decision was made not to do that for reasons having to do with culture. Can you tell us what happened and the decision making that went into... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
certain connotations, both positive and negative. I thought I was jumping into a tank full of sharks. I was prepared for overly aggressive, type A people. I am happy to say that I was totally surprised by the collaborative spirit here and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
tremendous emotional satisfaction, and like I said, for us, that's vacations. We weren't going to sacrifice there, but we were happy to say, you know what, yes, that bathroom could really use a new floor, but that's OK, that can wait.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Harf's daughter Katharina, who serves as DKMS's COO. Like the happy endings that Harf has brought to many blood cancer patients, there is a silver lining to his personal struggle with loss. In 1995, while promoting a line of cosmetics for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
having a more diverse and balanced life." In London, Debbie Sandford says that her view of success has changed since she graduated in 1990. "It is much more closely linked in my mind to happiness and balance and less to achievement than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current scale and performance, she... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
and Mateo. While his father desperately wanted Rodríguez and his brother to attend Harvard (his brother earned a master’s degree at the Kennedy School), he says his own approach to parenting is more flexible: “As long as they are passionate and try hard, I will be... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
comes in a carcass, customer preferences, share size, order history. Formulas propose a suggested share, based on a selection of items we think will maximize this member’s happiness—within the constraints of our inventory,” Cummings says. View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
You’ll learn how to find the reason behind your work; identify what makes you feel happy and fulfilled; use job crafting to transform your role; build positive, fulfilling relationships; and connect your work to service. Arm yourself with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
with applications and now employs local residents, many of whom walk to work, with much less turnover than Sprint's suburban call centers. "They took a risk, but it paid off - they now have a solid pool of workers who are very happy to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how advertising and society have shaped each other. The View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
has steered off course. What do men and women not get about each other? Women just don’t get that men are remarkably simple. A sandwich, some sports on TV, and sex — you’ve got a happy man. Women are unnecessarily complicated, and men... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
history, is a framed copy of the front page of the August 8, 1992, San Francisco Examiner. On that particular day, the editors co-opted the signature home-run call — “Bye-Bye Baby!” — of the Giants’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Russ Hodges to announce a far less View Details