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- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
entrepreneurs to build our own technical skillsets to become the person who can transform seedling ideas into actual offerings. When you're building, you're constantly expanding your understanding of both the problem and the solution.... View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
our last. This is also the tenth and last time I will have the honor of speaking to a graduating class as Dean of this School as I plan to step down at the end of this year. This is certainly not how any of us had hoped to celebrate this... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
who’ve succumbed to the lure of guilty pleasures, to the point of being coy about acknowledging them to pollsters, will face bigger coming-out problems down the road. Sell dreams even if you have no plan to deliver. If you’ve been... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- Portrait Project
Tony Deifell
wrote, "you may not notice these cracks. They are a big problem since my walking cane gets stuck." I want to notice all the cracks in my world – the prejudice I still have about cultures I don't understand, the arrogance that I... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
career path, a few lessons stand out. 1. Fall in love with a problem Largely due to HBS’ social impact efforts, I’ve shifted the way I frame my career thinking. Rather than solely defining my career search by function or company, I think... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
disbelieving music industry with their findings that illegal music downloads don't hurt CD sales. Oberholzer discusses what the industry should do next. A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Customer Profitability Published: August 8, 2005 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
prominent environmentalist in corporate America, Johnson discussed with USA Today (December 4, 2002) the drinking problem that he had developed toward the end of his career. He sought treatment in 1993 after... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Preethi Krishnaswamy
The pencil rapped lightly on my head, a not-so-subtle reminder from dad that I had the wrong answer to the math problem at hand. Thoroughly annoyed, I scrunched my eyes and thought hard. Fractions danced behind my closed lids, one of them... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
security," Aamir Rehman commented that "the lifestyles of some executives make them unstable despite their wealth." Fernando das Neves Gomes diagnosed the problem in this thoughtful way: "I think much of the time the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Mar 2012
- Article
Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics
politicians at the other end of the spectrum demanded free public schools for all. In the end many states adopted both policies--a combination that proved enormously powerful. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
“Umm ” The FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) curriculum provided me an incredible opportunity to learn leadership skills not only in the classroom, but also through practical experience in Ghana and in Boston. However, at the View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
engage with the highest levels in the organization as well as the more junior folks that were critical to actually carrying out the initiatives. By the end of the project, I was impressed by exactly how integrated we became with the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
performing, but they have had guardrails their whole life," Kraus says. "Then they get to the end of their MBA, and they have no guardrails. They have to pave their own way. They experience this peeling back and discovery process in... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
stage. She is busy validating her go-to-market strategy and raising funds. She revealed that she does have “some angels committed and in the bank already!” But she is happy to connect with HBS alums interested in getting involved. With a... View Details
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Doha Tantawy
necessarily a bad thing," she says. "You can learn a lot regardless of outcomes. I learn more from sad moments than happy ones; the sad ones are the ones you really remember." Pursuing unanswered questions These experiences... View Details
- Student-Profile
Filippo Mezzanotti
high, classes are engaging, and professors are always happy to advise students on research and coursework. After HBS The path to the end of the Ph.D. is still very long, but my intention is to pursue a... View Details
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
business school after I graduate. I’m pretty flexible about where I end up and plan on using similar criteria as what led me to HBS - I want to have great colleagues and mentors, and an amazing administrative support system. I know... View Details