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- 23 May 2024
- News
HBS After October 7
On Friday, May 17, 2024, Dean Srikant Datar, HBS Alumni Board President Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997), and members of the School’s leadership held an online forum for alumni to learn more about the School’s activities and actions since October 7, 2023. Stavropoulos... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
because they are selling you more than books. In the early 2000s, when these bookstores were competing with Amazon on price, they were losing; they will always lose in the face of Amazon’s buying power. But since the late 2000s, many... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
are again underway, this time by returned emigrants hoping to entrench themselves by weakening the ‘permanent government’. Pre-war rhetoric has not translated into free elections. Conservative, tribal and religious candidates View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
with 170,000 employees that’s critical to our national defense,” Tobias noted that description fits both the CEO of Boeing ($4 million annual salary, plus incentives compensation) and the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps ($169,860 annual salary). He acknowledged... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
sounding stupid. “Acknowledging areas of ignorance helps you gather information and provides good modeling for others,” Waldroop notes. “Be up front with people. Let them know that you will be relying heavily on their input at first. And... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBSAA of Israel Sponsors Middle East Outreach
interested in Israel and the Middle East. Free copies are now available. The association is also expanding its international steering committee to include people living outside Israel who are interested in the region. In addi-tion, on... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
The Work-Life Balancing Act
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Jackie Coleman and John Coleman (MBA 2010) write that their decision to start a family “changed nearly everything in our working and personal lives.” From sleep schedules to finances, free... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Francisco Foundation, and has been a director of more than a dozen corporations. If pressed, however, Hellman will fess up. Although he insists that his father — Marco F. Hellman (MBA ’29) — helped him get his only job offer out of HBS,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
area. “An exciting challenge for us is the increasing pace and scope of innovation. the coming years will require careful strategic investment and creativity to ensure we can support the faculty in their work and preserve HBS’s... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
institution for nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies. Instead of relying on often restrictive grants, nonprofits with revenue-creating programs—say, an organization that offered free medical treatment in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
think so, but I don’t know when that will happen. The phase we are in now is “augmentation.” AI is not replacing the need for human labor; it is automating certain lower-level tasks and freeing up humans to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Emeritus Bill Sahlman (MBA 1975). During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
to them wherever they are in the world," Rogers notes. Another advantage is that alumni will no longer be limited in their choice of Internet access providers. "Alumni who already have accounts with AOL may choose to keep them, but they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
week there will be some kind of evening function as well, which I don’t particularly enjoy but know I need to do. In this job, there’s really no one to tell you how to proceed. At first I found that a bit unsettling, but now I understand... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons