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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Cooking Up Connections
It’s a fundamental truth Alexander Blanc (GMP 8) learned at an early age: food brings people together. As a child growing up in Russia, Blanc remembers helping his mother cook so much food on his birthday that they used their apartment... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
circle to promote innovation, collaboration, and overall behavior change. Henderson explained that businesses attempting to cooperate pushes regulation, which in turn creates incentive for innovation. Hwang offered a call to action:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
physics. Learned how to design chips. And I came out to Silicon Valley as it was forming in the mid '80s. And I think because I was in the right place at the right time, it put me on a series of foundational waves. First, in silicon and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
So instead of using it to persuade and project your message onto people, Twitter can be a tool to learn about your customers, as another way to get information about what they’re thinking. SG: And also new product ideas: Are people... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler's School of Thought
wisdom gathered over the years. The earlier you start making decisions, the better. There's a learning curve involved: Making your bad decisions when you're young gives you time to outlive them. When you're young, it's worth the effort to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Crest Trail Hiker’s Handbook. It was written and self-published by a reclusive mountaineer named Ray Jardine, who had won a loyal following for his philosophy that backpackers should lighten their loads by making their own gear. He even gave how-to instructions. View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
use what you learned at HBS in your role at Mass. General? “Residency is all about teamwork. I find that the things I learned from the many team-based experiences we had at HBS—from ‘climbing’ Everest to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
not very good; we had to change direction significantly. But I believe in getting into the game, getting into an industry, even if your concept isn’t perfect. Then, as you figure out that your idea may be flawed, you’re also learning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to do just that.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
rules—is reaching out through various channels and learning about opportunities before they’re even announced. The truth is that many of those opportunities may never be advertised because they wind up being assigned behind closed doors.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
Executive Education participants talk about their programs as a transformational experience," says Professor Das Narayandas, senior associate dean and chair of Executive Education. And not just because of what they learn in the classroom,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
China. “I have no regrets,” he adds, “because I learned so much from that experience.” Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International’s China operations, Klump is part of a small management team whose eleven members... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Batten’s life and career: how he grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse, championed racial equality, gave away more than $400 million to charity, mostly to education, and dealt with losing his vocal cords to cancer. The Art of the Sale: View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
storeroom.” At HBS, Diamond remembers studying cases with professors Thomas Raymond and C. Roland Christensen, who made learning “both fun and stimulating.” One of the lessons that helped him in business and in establishing JRI-Poland... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
estate investment and commercial development firm based in Newton, Massachusetts. "We knew they'd be very excited to learn about volcanoes, for instance, when they could be right there, seeing a real one," he notes. But just laying the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
learned in her youth in Scotts Ferry. "Everybody pitched in," she said. "Everybody worked hard. We talk a lot about the value of humility at Wildfire, about not getting ahead of yourself" (New York Times, January 26, 2013). View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Mendhro grew up with a desire to learn and experience the world, she had no formal opportunities to do so. “My brother and I would wake up in the morning and explore. It was self-learning,” she says. “Education became a personal goal and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
putting your money where your principles were has become a mainstream invest-ment philosophy.” — Martin Clarke (TGMP 11, 2003), chair of UKSIF, the UK sustainable investment and finance association. (Financial Times, July 3, 2011) “I have been the CEO for 12 years, and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
in psychology, there's an expression that neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent. The reason I bring this up is, as we connect FOMO and FOBO to option analysis, what I think I View Details