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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
problem?” So I started an owner’s manual for myself as I got older—a 401(k) for my happiness. I diagnosed a problem, and I put together 10 ways that I could solve it. As I started talking about it with people, they said it was maybe a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
dishes to add some surprises to the evening. A white elephant gift exchange game rounded out the evening. Declaring their holiday celebration on December 12 as the “coolest of the cool,” the HBS Club of Austin gathered at the North Austin... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
government-to-government negotiations. As talks began, Eamer developed a game plan of sorts. He would always start discussions with the common agreements from previous meetings and then move to the contentious material—a useful way to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
could be on vacation or doing something else that you want to do. So the name of the game here is to resist the constantly on, I have to soldier through treadmill, to say, my ability to look after myself, in order to do that, in order to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
7,000 messages a day in subtle ways, not so subtle ways. And it's everything from things they hear on the radio or other music they're listening to T-shirts people are wearing to video games to things they're seeing online. And so to cut... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Frida Polli (MBA 2012) is the CEO and cofounder of pymetrics, which uses neuroscience-based games to help match people to their perfect careers. In this episode, she talks... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
just need to have the founding fathers rapping. It's the idea that the novel combination of two existing ideas can change the world. Talk about how that relates to the success of Hamilton. [MUSIC] Eric: I think we get a little bit lost in technology sometimes because... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
is certainly not the only game in town for startup hopefuls. The medical-device and biotechnology industries also lure people eager to create their own businesses, as do many of the areas that attracted entrepreneurs a decade ago. Of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
could do one thing, I would eliminate quarterly reports. While I think the best market is a well-informed market, I believe we've created a short-term numbers game that plays to the darker side of managerial action, and is a negative... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
VC community, but it's starting. The more they see the vibrancy of people who are 50, 60, and older and starting new things and contributing their wisdom and talent and being more successful in some ways than the 20, 30-year-old that will be a View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
that comes from satisfying the Wall Street “beasts” quarterly-earnings estimates. If you don’t hit the number, your stock falls. This is an unfortunate game where Wall Street research had become the corrupt handmaiden of the investment... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
voted Crowd Favorite, is the brainchild of cofounders Wood and Royle, who met at HBS in the Startup Bootcamp program. Tilden is aiming to change the game in the nonalcoholic beverage market by producing a line of sophisticated adult... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
Kohl has no regrets. "It's been a source of great pride and interest to me," says the humble Kohl, who initially didn't feel comfortable parking in the VIP spot reserved for him. As president of the Bucks, Kohl makes an effort to attend as many View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
visits to South Africa's Kruger National Park, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, or other game reserves on the continent. Reflecting on their experiences at the conference, alumni were enthusiastic. Edward F. ("Ted") Fischer (71st PMD) found... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s was a go-to post-soccer View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Sahlman: Good venture capitalists are process literate: They have been through the game many times, they know where the traps are, and they know how to avoid them. They also have a strong set of relationships that they can bring to bear... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
stories of playing shell games with credit cards, using one to pay off another when the money wasn’t coming in. Where successful entrepreneurs were able to execute, though, it seemed to include a combination of two things: first,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
leadership, told us, “The few people on the Lehman board who actually had relevant experience were kind of like an all-star team from the 1980s back for an old-timers game in which they weren’t even up on the new rules and equipment. Fuld... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Wanderlust is built on “the pillars of mindful living,” of which yoga is one, along with the arts, personal spirituality, environmentalism, and “conscious consumerism.” Attendees tend to snap up equipment, accessories, and apparel sporting the Wanderlust logo, so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber