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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
nonrational part is when somebody offers us evidence of a mistake and we don't say, 'Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!'" Jensen argued that "what learning is about, at its very core, is finding out when we're making an error." Thus, an unwillingness to receive bad... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
presentation that outlines the major initiatives currently under way at HBS. The presentation is being designed so that a club officer or a member of the board can deliver it with ease at club sessions and other meetings. In addition, the committee has supported the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
celebrated and learned of their new rights as citizens. As Black Texans moved to other parts of the country, they brought their traditions along with them, and Juneteenth continued to grow and develop. Juneteenth’s powerful spirit has... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to nearby fossil fuel sources. That... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
unveiled The Harvard Campaign, which aims to strengthen the University's financial foundations and enable new investments and initiatives. As part of this endeavor, The Harvard Business School Campaign—set to launch in April 2014—aims to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Everyone remembers their first real job—in part, because it’s everyone’s first experience with a new and foreign world of work. But it’s also because those first jobs can... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Cushing, considered the father of modern neurosurgery, was operating at Harvard Medical School nearly a century ago. And even with all the activity Amadio describes, the bench-to-bedside time for new treatments has averaged more than a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
there is a bustle of activity as the premises are readied to receive the three hundred guests who will arrive for an evening reception and book-signing party to celebrate the publication of a handsome new volume, Adventures with Old... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
other academic institution in the world. For three-quarters of a century, the Bulletin has tracked the extraordinary record of achievement of HBS alumni. And so it seems fitting that at the dawn of a new millennium, we should draw upon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
spectacular corporate failure in modern capitalism. Was this an aberration?” he questioned. “Can we draw lessons that can be applied to other corporations? What are the implications for our research and teaching?” Dean Kim B. Clark also spoke at the View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
block in Harvard's efforts to create an innovation hub in Allston that encourages our students and faculty to explore and nurture ideas that lead to new knowledge, new products, View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
notice, increase our group’s size from thirty to sixty. While fifteen members of the group arrived a few days before New Year’s in order to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, for most of us our first trip to Africa View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
book to articulate the nuts and bolts of what goes into creating an environment for this transformation to occur.” As seen in these excerpts from DeLong’s new book, teaching—whether the milieu is the classroom or a conference room—is a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Web Site) To position itself for the 21st century, the company is relying on the likes of Yves G. Martin (MBA '86), acting CEO of Club Med North America, and Nicolas C. Giraud (MBA '91), director of sales support, both of whom were hired in 1997 by Club Med's View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
their efforts was a weekend seminar held in January that was an enjoyable combination of academic discussion, public service, and relaxation. The event centered on three new case studies on companies situated near the border between... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime... View Details