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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
Actually, we're still busy at ACOG, dismantling our operation: outprocessing tens of thousands of employees, selling or returning materiel, closing the books, writing a final report, and so forth. In a matter of weeks, this Fortune... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
where I write down my challenges and also my successes. It’s a five-year journal, so I can see what happened five years ago today, four years ago, three years ago, all on the same page. It helps me put things in perspective. Every year... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Yahoo, the challenge is to catalyze growth at an Internet company with tremendous assets. I’m learning every day how to inspire people to challenge conventional wisdom, use data to drive decisions, and tackle roadblocks proactively. I’ve learned to roll up my sleeves... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
traveling volunteer program. He took on the new role after returning from a February trip to New Zealand, where he worked with a family for three weeks to build their home. And Murch has found yet another way to help. To keep his programming skills current, he has made... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
In 1943 John H. Johnson sent a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt inviting her to write for Negro Digest, a fledgling magazine that he had recently founded with a $500 loan. The First Lady politely replied that she was too busy at the time.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
enough that I wanted out.” Since selling the team in 2001, Tierney now focuses his interest in soccer on the men's league that he plays in on weekends in Darien and on America SCORES, a nonprofit that uses soccer as a springboard to teach creative View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
idealistically writing my admission essay on this,” says Howard. That particular vision didn’t materialize, in part because of the dotcom crash that began during her time at HBS. After graduation, she worked as VP at Fidelity Investments,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
getting done or sharing information related to work, one model has been to codify everything. I’ll give you the example of GitLab. They have something called the “one handbook" policy. What that means is that they write down everything so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
research. Most teaching was based on business anecdotes. The remedy advocated by the report was to ground the programs in strong disciplinary knowledge. The report’s impact was swift and dramatic, writes Khurana in his sweeping history of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
experiencing,” says Amabile, who gathered and analyzed the data with the help of HBS research associates and doctoral students, ultimately writing The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
afraid to stop; they’re afraid to break away. So you have to break the fear—the fear of jumping, the fear of change. This is the first chain link that you need to break to be free. How has writing and researching this book changed your... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
performance demonstrated the value of this approach,” writes HBS CFO and Associate Dean for External Relations Donella M. Rapier (MBA 1992) in the report. “Alumni response to the report reflects the tremendous interest they’ve always had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
“creative,” and suddenly agencies could bill much more for their newly developed writing and marketing services. Brands that Lasker’s agency helped make or reinvent included Goodyear, Kleenex, Palmolive, and Pepso-dent. His skill wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
homework via phone. Before long, Khan was tutoring 10 or 15 cousins after work. He started writing simple software to give them practice problems and making how-to videos so he could reach more kids efficiently. In 2009, he quit his job... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
a set of assumptions and wanted us to estimate inventory. I'm a very visual person so I would normally want to write down the info to run the numbers. It's tough to absorb the scenario when there are cameras and everyone is waiting for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
field. He seemed taken aback by the question at first, but after thinking for a minute, he said, “The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.” I think that is the same force that... View Details