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- Portrait Project
Austin Dirks
doctor's hands worked back and forth in the rhythm and grace of a painter. I could feel my breath beat back against my mask, into my face. My scrub cap began to stick to my forehead with perspiration. Something was wrong. And I was alone.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
well-regulated reserve with natural geographic defenses. Kent has been up close with the animals during the relocation and other wildlife management efforts: “It’s a very raw experience to be close with a large wild animal. Our lives are often very removed from the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marc Oman
The rhythm of chirping Blackberries. Students running from classes to meetings to a ringtone that never ends. Another kind of rhythm. What I dream to produce one day. To become a percussionist in a live salsa band is my secret passion.... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting
balance. While it's critical to love and enjoy the work, you also have to consider your level of skill and the prospects for continuous improvement, how the work is valued by society, and the daily rhythm that the job creates. After about... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
can make amazingly sophisticated parts. One interesting situation that I wrote a case on was the company Rhythm & Hues, a well-known visual effects (VFX) company. The case question was what circumstances led them to (1) win four... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
central bank on rhythm guitar and Serbia's minister for foreign economic relations on lead vocals. Djelic himself, along with several other government ministers, sang back-up. According to the Wall Street Journal, the party broke up at 4... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
effort to relocate 100 rhinos from South Africa, where poaching is a constant threat, to safer havens in Botswana. “It’s a very raw experience to be close with a large wild animal,” he says. “Our lives are often very removed from the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand
regular habits. "I recommend a minimum of 15 minutes a day, or 1.5 – 2 hours a week," she says. The "how long" and "how often" of your time commitment will vary based on your own rhythm and availability, but... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
Photo courtesy of Ben de Menil In a palm tree–lined school courtyard in the small town of Cabarete, on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, children are making music. Some play the bongos; some, guitars. Others sing or step and sway to the familiar four-count... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
three of the women had been employed continuously in a full-time position. The remaining women, she recounted, had moved in and out of the workforce, adjusting the scope and rhythms of their professional lives to fit with family and other... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
people to find their rhythm and settle down and the manager should also adjust their own personal timelines for when to expect stuff to get done. How can I avoid the temptation to procrastinate when I work remotely? Choudhury: We all do... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness control the rhythms... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
sister cities. They’re both industry towns, and in many ways the marketing campaign for a movie or a television show is not unlike a campaign for a political candidate. You’re trying to inform people, arm them with information, remind them about a date, and then get... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
museum trustee Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983) View Video Thaddeus Mosley, Illusory Progression , 2020, bronze. 94 × 34 × 20 in., and Rhizogenic Rhythms , 2020. Bronze, 82 × 32 × 35 in. Installation view, Harvard Business School. Exhibition... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad
its own culture academically and socially, and being plugged into both provided a nice change in rhythm to my experience. I enjoyed taking classes at both schools each semester and got good exercise running back and forth across the... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
years and those three themes really came out of all the work I’ve done on people, events, and the big drivers of history. I was particularly concerned with making the book relevant to people today, to the questions, possibilities, and daily View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the French rhythm of long midday breaks... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details