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- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Picture yourself in the 4th grade. Are you looking up at your teacher as you hand in your math worksheet? Standing on your tip toes to reach the breakfast cereal? Franci Girard (MBA 2016) wasn’t. In the 4th grade, Girard hit her growth... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
part of my post-HBS career. She has guided me through multiple resume reviews, interview practices, company discovery sessions, and tips on how to leverage the HBS alumni network. After a lot of determination and many meetings with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
results on the scale and higher energy levels. She dispels dieting myths, gives the lowdown on energy bars, green tea, and protein shakes, and offers unconventional tips (like how to break an exercise sweat at the office without anyone... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees. Recent research from Harvard Business School indicates that... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
are doing creative things or learned from mistakes and are willing to share tips and tricks to avoid pitfalls as you scale. While it may make you feel vulnerable, asking your investors for guidance around your own personal development... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
perspective. The book covers Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, the Luberon Valley, Nîmes, St-Rémy-de-Provence, and more, with a special focus on the area around St-Rémy. The authors recommend restaurants with fabulous food and offer tips... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Securities (TIPS) from the co-movement of breakeven inflation with liquidity proxies. The liquidity premium is around 70 basis points in normal times, but much larger during the early years of TIPS issuance and during the height of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
plenty of tips for the audience, from "do your homework" to "be ready mentally and financially." But perhaps Altschul and Quimby best summed up the combination of innate mental toughness, persistence and passion that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni
commonly used are described below: Feature Tip Turns microphone on/off The / indicates that you are muted . Click the caret next to the microphone to access additional audio controls, including selecting a different microphone and/or... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
have this ambition to raise a billion pounds for good causes, and we’re close to £200 million now,” he adds. “We’ve really improved the technology. It’s very easy to make donations, and donors can offer a tip to the Big Give to support... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
at the tip of America's sword." A Yale College alumnus (Class of '86), Baldwin found the Navy the perfect place to learn not only about the importance of trust and teamwork but about the essential ingredients of effective leadership.... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
mostly one race are tipping the balance of integration among all firms, creating a less segregated workforce overall. “The turnover of organizations appears to have washed away progress on racial employment integration faster than such... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
country,” says Lal. “If you look at successful implementations, they all started with, ‘What problem can I solve?’ If you don’t identify the right problem, the rest of it will not go anywhere.” Lal researched successful mobile money programs, and a few that flopped, to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of total mergers and acquisitions to... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
2013. Target was a big Fortune 50 company. They had all the best products; they had good engineers, good policies, good practices. Yet they got hacked in a very big, public way. They lost 40 million records. That was a tipping point for... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
the work, not to mention the volume, is staggering. Just a few of the actions taken by the agency this past summer include: Licensed a new vaccine, ACAM2000, to protect against smallpox. Warned consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested from an area of the southern... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
coronavirus relief programs. With frequently asked questions about the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loans, as well as 10 tips for small businesses and an extensive list of additional resources, the guide is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel