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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
their financial lives, high tech is not enough. In our business, we also have to be high touch. Consumers love the convenience of a digital platform, but there will always be circumstances in the financial services sector when the consumer wants to talk to a View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first to stand atop Mount Everest, in 1953; and Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, in 1969. But Vescovo hadn’t gotten there by himself. To send one person to the most remote places on the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
mission to ride a motorcycle on all seven continents. Friedman completed his mission in December of 2019, and in this episode of Skydeck, he and I talk about the challenges he faced during his epic journey—and why he believes that getting out of one’s comfort zone and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
thought I was being victimized," he remembers. "But when I went to talk to him about it after that fourth time, he said he just thought I had done a very good job, and he wanted to bring out my comments as much as possible. Well, I View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
Singleton (MBA ’88). The trio look at what can be learned by stepping back and taking a longer term view of how some of the greatest business leaders of the last century built successful careers. The book draws on information from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books
specialized robot, and stories of famous innovators like Hedy Lamarr. You will assess your interests and uncover your core purpose through introspective, self-exploratory exercises, then craft a personalized vision and View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
career coaching or advising in both high school and college is absolutely essential. And that’s something we’re doing a lot of work on. The third big focus area is affordability, which sort of speaks for itself. The fourth is work-based View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
matter. It’s hard to imagine learning the topics better anywhere else. And it was fun going through it as a newly married couple—burning the midnight oil and reading cases together.” The two also shared a passion for outdoor recreation.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
sitesALIVE! (www.sitesalive.com). Most people have never heard of the Vendée Globe race. Why is it special? Some call it the Mt. Everest of the seas. But when I finished the race, I was told that while 2,700 different people have summited Everest, I was only the 46th... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was then chairman of Cabot, and extended the invitation to McArthur. “I was looking for new blood, new ideas,” Bodman recalls, “and he was the first person I turned to. He became one of our most important directors.” McArthur also... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
a direct approach—promising indirect benefits—was the alternative tactic for making progress. We are here to invest in your country, Khoja or another Roshan representative would explain. You may not benefit from Roshan personally today,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
to your life, this combination becomes highly combustible. So, for instance, we can learn about the spike proteins on viruses, and then we can use that knowledge to create a vaccine to counter these viruses. One, two, bang. That’s how it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
marketing for the Giants. “My job was to put warm butts into cold seats,” notes Baer, who says he learned a lot about all aspects of the business during the three years he spent promoting fan interest and attendance at the notoriously... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
attractive to alumni who want to do more in their communities, have an impact, and pay it forward. “What they lack is a clear path on how to make that happen inside a hectic life of work and personal commitments,” he says. “Community... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
than most observers expected," he notes. "However, much work remains in the struggle to transform the country's economy and its social structure. Its leaders' principal challenge now is to try to boost job opportunities and personal... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
and so well-received,” says Kim. “Lev Aronson’s story is about the enduring power of music, and how one person who turned darkness into light can make a difference. The program was a very ambitious, thoughtfully realized performance, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
the founders made personal loans to the brand to launch a vanilla shake, which made Sneakz a more legitimate contender in the consumer products space, Philp says. For a longer term capital solution, they ultimately connected with a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
experimentation, the way their R&D organizations are structured, and their preconceptions about the relationship between experimentation and learning. The principles establish the rationale for frequent and early experimentation, outline proven innovation strategies,... View Details