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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Menlo Park, where the firm relocated in 1992. Reflecting on the early days, he recalls with a smile, “Back then they would sit around a small table and make decisions to invest $200,000 to start Genentech or $500,000 to start Tandem... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
government factories employed a majority of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants (including Mlotok’s parents) until market reforms obliterated the industry, leaving thousands penniless. “The mid-1990s were the worst time,” recalls Mlotok, who... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Garvin remembers Christensen as "incredibly open," a trait echoed by Robert Bruner (HBS MBA '74, DBA '82), who served as a summer case-writing assistant to Christensen. "He supervised me in the same way that he taught—he asked questions," View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
maintaining a vibrant organization requires cultivating an environment that supports risk taking. Asking participants to recall situations in which their organizations succeeded and failed at being creative, Amabile then invited the women... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Garvin remembers Christensen as “incredibly open,” a trait echoed by Robert Bruner (MBA ’74, DBA ’82), who served as a summer case-writing assistant to Christensen. “He supervised me in the same way that he taught — he asked questions,” View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
employees, too. During the first summer, the embeds quickly discovered the crux of the transparency problem, which Bernstein recalls in his paper The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recalls Quattrone telling an analyst who wanted to issue a less than flattering report about a client. `Do you want to work in this firm? Do you want to be a team player? When it comes time for bonus review, all this will be remembered.'... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
learned that the course had nothing to do with manufacturing, it had to do with a way of life,” recalled David Arnold, MBA 1947, who went on to work for Doriot at ARD. “He made you think.” Doriot lectured his aspiring... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511075-PDF-ENG On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 Clayton Rose, Sandra J. Sucher, Rachel Gordon, and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 311-029 :... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
math whiz,” Traill says. “I thought he had all the capacity to be an engineer, but his environment didn’t give him the opportunity to make the most of his gifts.” Traill recalls his arrival at HBS as a dramatic culture shift and one that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
then-22-month-old Christina. Initially reluctant to begin the adoption process, Taylor recalls the experience as life changing. “We immediately fell in love with her, and when we brought her back we started donating to orphan-care... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
What’s the story behind MOGUL? “When I first moved to America, I did not know a word of English, but it was by watching films, reading books, and listening to the radio that I ended up learning how to speak the language. Through that experience, I View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
anyone," Harf recalls her saying. "Put your business smarts to work. There is more to life than making money." Harf and his daughter Katharina (left) review documents at DKMS. Harf and his wife's physician, Gerhard Ehninger, launched... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the firm's people was the most fulfilling of all. You need to know how to work with people, and that skill is largely experiential and driven by personality.—Kevin McCall Peter Palandjian (HBS MBA '93), chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Developers, Inc., View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
meant making quick, difficult staffing decisions when some of her colleagues weren't able to grow with the company. "It took a long time to get funding," she continued, recalling that she was eight months pregnant when she made... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Boston to meet with me,” she recalls with some amazement. “And I suddenly realized the power, the reach we had as shareholders.” Aiyer demonstrated to Albertsons that unfair employment practices were a financial liability, and the company... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
online. “Jeff Bezos was then an obscure entrepreneur, but he gave me my first exposure to thinking about different ways to sell things,” recalls Beck. Beck’s success has put her on the cover of Inc. magazine twice, led to numerous awards,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
to time." The seeds of Jenrette's passion for historic houses were planted as he grew up in Raleigh during the Depression. In his book, Jenrette recalls seeing the movie Gone with the Wind in 1939, when he was 10: "It came at a time when... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg