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- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
911 from a landline phone. 911 was originally developed in the 1960s. The New York Times previously noted, as the system ages, “it is cracking, with problems like system overload, understaffing, misrouted calls and bug-ridden databases... View Details
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
have traveled during the past six months, with a focus on the Asian private equity market. China In December 2013 Chinese regulators lifted the 14 month moratorium on IPOs and also put in place new procedures for how companies can go... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
through three-hundred business situations with imperfect information and severe time constraints. You have to develop a framework for a vision, a way to articulate that vision, and the humility to accept ninety different opinions... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
development and investment with gusto. "It was intellectually challenging and enabled me to provide my family with an interesting and privileged life," he says, noting that he and his children traveled all over the world together during... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
daunting. During my MBA, I spent a lot of time reflecting on what I wanted to do in my career. Since we spend a huge portion of our lives working, it’s important to find a job that’s fulfilling. Over time, I've found that what matters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
financing of public infrastructure projects in Africa. An important element of the course, he says, was to have students spend significant time working side by side with the local population. “Get out and look with your own eyes,” he... View Details
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
Last summer, my wife and I took our 11-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son on a nine-week trip through seven countries in Africa. As a lifelong traveller, it was a priority for me to take an epic family adventure, and I had talked about it for years. Unlike many of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
professional status would allow me to have a better life than they had. They grew up during the Depression, and both began working at young ages to help support their families. They both continued to work long hours throughout their adult lives. My father View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
and Phillips-Sadler noted that for many, traveling to HBS was a major investment that was often difficult to justify with strained startup budgets and tight timelines. “Our mission is to democratize access to capital, give founders a seat... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
of authenticity in leadership is what is needed to manage the tension. Michael Leahy commented that " we are challenged to sort out short term position and personal self serving ambition versus more genuine leadership When we are View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
professor and consultant. In these twenty-two-plus years in the field, in addition to the research and writing I have done, I have worked with families in business from over sixty countries. I have traveled to nearly every corner of the... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
Citicorp Investment Bank, first in New York, then in London. Then I came back, and for over 15 years, I worked at Institutional Investor. The last 10 of those years were as managing director of a research group that I helped to launch. By the View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
recently when it sent an enrollee to Cancun, Mexico, for an orthopedic procedure, covering all of the patient’s travel and out-of-pocket expenses. The company paid an American surgeon three times Medicare’s... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS
She hopes this blog post will represent for woman considering business school and motherhood that the two are not mutually exclusive. Decision Time After serving for seven years in the United States Army, the decision to transition my... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
There were some collegial tensions that arose, for example around who should do much of the behavior change work. For example, we could ask students to travel less, but for that to actually work in reality there first needs to be a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
“This content is on the bleeding edge,” she says. “When the pandemic was starting to spread, we were able to give expertise from someone at the front lines. After that first session, in which David warned people not to travel and to do... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
for freedom?” Djelic asked himself. That autumn, he resigned from McKinsey and bid farewell to his wife, Marie-Laure, and two young daughters, who stayed behind in Paris. He returned to Belgrade for the first time in a decade, and plunged... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Airlines' AAdvantage program, Brierley pioneered a customer loyalty program that would change the way consumers would select their travel providers. "While the goal of the program was to identify American's best customers, establish a... View Details