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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
the good news. It’s also the bad news. When your work is drudgery, it is bereft of love, and can make life a task. There’s no joy in dragging yourself out of bed in the morning to go to a job you hate—where you feel helpless, bored, or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
1999 Named Managing Director, Morgan Stanley 2000 Releases album, Carla’s First Christmas 2005 First solo concert at Carnegie Hall 2005 Releases album, Joy Is Waiting 2005 Named by Fortune to list of 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
spouses, who are increasingly taking over the reins. Beyond the foundation, the family supports the arts in Washington through the National Gallery of Art, the National Symphony Orchestra, and The Phillips Collection. Working side by side with his children, says Sant,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
joy that working on Trikafta has given me.” My hero: “Barbara McClintock discovered what’s referred to as ‘jumping genes.’ She has commented how that discovery was enabled by her different outlook as a female scientist. I’m selfishly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
the self-examination process, Ferguson says. “It’s difficult to avoid putting money at the forefront of your life. I want to provide for my family, but being a huge financial success doesn’t always fulfill your sense of joy and peace.”... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school but when her first child, Katie, struggled with learning disabilities, the private equity strategist turned her attention to finding the best learning environment for her daughter. Melcher... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Grads Are the Most
Joy Covey (MBA '89), Kraft Foods' Ann Fudge (MBA '77), Bain & Co.'s Orit Gadiesh (MBA '77), Fidelity's Abigail Johnson (MBA '88), Colgate-Palmolive's Lois Juliber (MBA '73), Azurix's Rebecca Mark (MBA '90), People magazine's Ann Moore... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
to get up in the morning and you just feel joy in the rest of your life. “Look, all of us who go to HBS are going to spend a lot of our time ‘working,’ whatever that means to you. Doing something that you’re really passionate about and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
even as he enjoyed a successful career as a high-flying real-estate dealmaker at Dean Witter Reynolds. Then he was introduced to the late James Rouse, the visionary developer who founded the Enterprise Foundation in 1982. "Jim Rouse imparted to me the gift of his View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
fifth box? 3) Consider partnering with local humane societies. For example, offer a reduced-cost first package after an adoption—the goal being to associate the joy of bringing a pet home with your product. — Laura Viaches (MBA 2008)... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
includes laughter, music, eating well, and finding joy at any age; the role of caregivers and their critical impact on extending your lifespan; how your environment and demographics affect aging, and how to adopt new technologies and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
the joy and excitement I experienced when I began to understand technology and to see how it opens up the world. In trying to balance work and family, I have been influenced by a talk Mitt Romney (MBA ’74/JD ’75) gave at HBS when I was a... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
president of Strategic Interactive Group; Joy D. Covey (MBA '89, JD '90), CFO of Amazon.com; and Deidra Wager (AMP 154), an executive vice president at Starbucks. Professor Regina E. Herzlinger's session on "Managing in the Nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty products business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
to hobbies, mastering other skills, and finding time for the things that bring them joy in life, and it’s paying dividends well into the workweek. “We’ve adapted to a place that transcends the pandemic experience around how we work,”... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
do you listen? Harvard gave me the skills to deal with people, and the skills to be in relationships. These skills have helped me all along my long career. Learning to listen has served me well in ministry, as my job is not to fix someone but to journey with someone in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
to adopt that corporate structure. [Her change of focus was the theme of a September 2014 TEDxBoulder talk, “The Joy of Less.”] “So many of our society’s inequalities are unfortunate outgrowths of capitalism,” Coupounas says today. “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
company’s goals. It is a joy to work with a team that brings different disciplines to bear on issues and to be in a place where science and business work so well together. As we move forward in the field of personalized medicine, there... View Details