Survival - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Ebony Cambridge

the passage of time. I want to hold my head up through all of life's mysteries and not only endure but grow. I want to listen to my grandchildren's laughter as I tell them how Anansi outsmarted everyone AGAIN and be sure that the stories which View Details

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Carol Fishman Cohen

I want women (and men) who leave the work force to know they can resume their professional lives. Taking a career break used to be considered “career suicide.” But, I survived it. In 2001, I relaunched my career at a prominent investment... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Charles W. Nash

Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of the few, profitable independent... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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John Paul Andree

just a youthful adventure story of my past. That can never be. Comfort can make you complacent. I survived for a reason. My life has a purpose. To be the best version of myself, find meaning in every moment, value every life with dignity... View Details

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Emily Slota

Then I met Johiron. Johiron was emaciated, living in a shelter of palm leaves in Bangladesh, and surviving by begging for rice. I shadowed her as an intern for Grameen Bank's beggar lending program. And she shared how she'd used a... View Details

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Managing Service Operations - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing Service Operations Course Number 2120 Professor Ryan Buell Senior Lecturer Robert Markey Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Service is the business of people helping people, and people are born to help one another. The View Details

01 Jun 2002
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HBS Students Negotiate a Victory

Patrick Chung and Aman Kapadia worked together over the course of six tension-filled days in March to draft a contract between a flight attendants union and an airline struggling to survive the turbulence of a post–September 11... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2011
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Noted & Quoted

“One more door is shut in terms of how seniors can find the money to survive as they age.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, reacting to news that Wells Fargo has joined Bank of America in no longer offering reverse mortgages.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Finance; Management

19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

organizations that achieved scale only through massive subsidy. Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism explores the continuing research in the history and role of railroads in creating not only the foundations of modern business, but also a system of modern... View Details

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Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest… 2015 | About

for over 40 years. Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest , was on view in front of Rock Center through March of 2019. The text on the bench, which states, “It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender,” is from her View Details

01 Jan 2009
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Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985

as an entrepreneur have dramatically changed the lives of many cancer patients, including her own. By expediting research on multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer with one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers, she has... View Details

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Zhongjue (Drew) Chen

English-on issues from the one-child policy to communism. To this day I still remember how petrified I was, surrounded by a completely foreign setting. But somehow, miraculously, I survived and rose to the challenge. As I am ready to... View Details

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Jocelyne Moyer

It's something my parents never really explained to me, but I figured it out. Bankruptcy taught me to fear that everything I have could be taken away. I never dreamed of making a difference in the world – only of surviving it. After our... View Details

06 Oct 2016
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“You Could Be Dead Any Second”

(CBS: 60 Minutes) (CBS: 60 Minutes) For anyone else, it would be enough—to somehow survive being taken hostage in Yemen. In 1998, Mary Quin (MBA 1988), a senior executive at Xerox and inveterate traveler was touring the conservative... View Details

07 Sep 2016
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How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (New York: Harper Business, 2008) Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2016) Original... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Jamie Holden

Army. In fact, my calendar was the centerpiece of my tiny room in Tikrit, Iraq. Every day survived represented one day down and one day closer to returning home. However, the major problem with my countdown was that I failed to cherish... View Details

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Onaizah Panhwar

for the values they instilled in me. Twelve years ago, my parents and I were in a driving accident in which they both passed away. I survived the accident with a scarred face and a head injury but immediately after, I had to step up for... View Details

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Lee Koffler

their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another... View Details

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