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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
MIT grad Brian Hughes (MBA ’79) is bringing technology to bear on what may result in a giant step forward for womankind. Imagine, gushed the Austin, Texas, American-Statesman (July 8, 2004), a high-heeled shoe “so cozy you can wear it all day, dance all night, and go... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
porters do is incredibly hard. The average load is 60 pounds per person. They often sleep outside or on benches in communal rooms," says Petzel. "As the tragic events on Everest have demonstrated, it is paramount for us to continue to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
Most business travelers breathe a sigh of relief when they return home, happy to unpack their suitcase and sleep in their own bed. Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) is not your typical business traveler. One of the “world’s most renowned... 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 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
“connected wellness,” with the lamp as the starting point and shown as a sleep aid rather than smart lighting. Ario can assess co-branding the device with players that have established a value proposition around View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
MIT, she grew deeply interested in “spending long periods of time living with and living like” the people she studied, “trying to understand the world from their perspectives.” In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
the increasingly global nature of these activities. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow (Harvard Business Review Press) Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
corporate world when he was working his way up the ranks: mindfulness, stress resilience, sleep training, and emotional intelligence skills. “With ongoing change and disruption, the crisis business is now facing on a global scale is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes. “These are people who are visible to drive our economy,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Desperate Sections
In April, this year’s HBS Show, An Offer You Can’t Refuse, explored in song and dance what happens when, in a metaphorical sense, entire HBS sections face the prospect of wearing cement overshoes and sleeping with the Charles River... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
myself for a day that I have a lot of points, but it's just a, again, probably a small game-ification to just encourage myself, on the margin, to be a little bit healthier. So for example, running a mile is 15 points, for sleep I have a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
and the surrounding community. Even Baker Library is evolving. When I was a student, we thought of libraries primarily as a physical space; during my graduate school days at MIT, I was even known to sleep overnight on a couch at the Sloan... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
side. She can get an amazing read on a person and see the big picture really quickly, whereas it takes me longer. I think celebrities don’t always experience pushback, but I give that, which she respects, and she does it with me.” Two years later, that hasn’t changed.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Step By Step
there’s a death. The day before my father’s funeral, I walked along the waterfront in Thessaloniki with different friends and family for eight or nine hours. I think I logged 40,000 or 50,000 steps, and that night was the smoothest sleep... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
Street , said, “Work hard and never give up, those were very valuable lessons I learned from trying to compete with Al.” Another Gordon lesson is the key to longevity. Known for long city walks and for climbing the stairs in skyscrapers, Gordon took up marathoning at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
former Baker Hall reopened as Esteves Hall in April, 165 HBS staffers spent a night eating and sleeping in the newly renovated Executive Education facilities to make sure everything was shipshape for the first students. View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
morning. “I can sleep on the plane as easily as I can sleep in a bed,” he remarks. “The contrast between photography and the corporate world is really invigorating.” Asked for his top spots, Main Wilson... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
a patient’s home. “A pharmaceutical company, for instance, may want to study how well patients on a particular medication are able to sleep. HumanFirst can scan the clinical-research landscape to identify studies in which researchers used sensors to take measures of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
what recharges me the most.” What the business traveler wants: A comfortable, WiFi-connected room. Also: “They want to be left alone.” Her must-have travel accessories: An eye mask for catching up on sleep across multiple time zones;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna