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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 career in research. View Details

10 Aug 2021
News

Moving Education Within Reach

to work one day. The child, Malarkodi Suppamutharwyam, announced her intention to become a cardiologist. Knowing the challenges her family would face pursuing that goal, Ramalingam offered to mentor and tutor her. When it was time for her... View Details

Editorial

Elon Musk's Unusual Compensation Plan Isn't Really About Compensation at All

By: George Serafeim

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO—for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Elon Musk is already incredibly rich and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. So why do it?... View Details

Keywords: Tesla; Elon Musk; Innovation; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Short-termism; Long-termism; Disruption; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication Intention and Meaning; Mission and Purpose

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Evelyne White

start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the business rather than fighting wars. If... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

powers the company as a whole. If these purpose-driven graduates choose to start their own company, they are more likely to instill the same intention within their employees – one that is lasting and familial. Each employee feels a sense... View Details

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Alex Furleigh

two years from HBS to focus entirely on my own development—what I want to do, what I want to learn, and who I want to be. While it’s easy to get caught up in the stresses of class preparation, social events, and recruiting, I’ve tried to do my best to be View Details

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Marketing AI Guidelines | About

marketing and communications activities. Responsible use includes sufficient human oversight of any AI generated content or analysis to ensure accuracy and quality. The following are acceptable uses of AI in marketing: Modifying images and video in ways that preserve... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2004
News

Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

launched two years ago. The original intent of the research project was to begin to collect data that would contribute to a “canon of business leadership” — a compendium of business leaders who have defined the way we live, work, and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs

previous role as the founding partner of Suffolk Equity Partners, Martignetti enjoys the passion that young entrepreneurs—many of them HBS graduates—bring to their endeavors. “I like working with teams intent on pushing to make their... View Details

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

psychological “nudges” can improve healthy behavior. It’s not that easy, it turns out. One of the prime reasons is sheer forgetfulness, he says. Many of us have every intention of getting vaccinated, but forget when the actual date rolls... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

and Forstmann Little & Co., have dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

circumstantial. Love is an action and a choice made with intention each day. Choosing to be in a long-distance marriage with me attending HBS and Stephen attending Michigan Ross was one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make together.... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Supporting Women in Leadership

"The intention of the fund is to look at women in leadership—in business and in civic life. Among other things, we want to help increase the number of cases featuring women protagonists. Currently, women hold 18–20 percent of senior... View Details

Keywords: W50

01 Mar 2003
News

Service with a Smile

Intentions to Quit,” was published in the December 2002 Journal of Organizational Behavior. Not surprisingly, the researchers found that workers who are asked to suppress negative or unpleasant emotions are often unhappy at work and... View Details

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Pursuing Independent Projects

outside of the case-based class. In terms of challenges, there’s very little structure compared to a traditional class, so you have be very intentional and disciplined to get the most out of the experience. I set aside time on my calendar... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Ann M. Fudge

months later she left Kraft with the intent of taking a position at another company after a short sabbatical. During that time, she explored numerous countries, including Morocco, Thailand, and Bali, with her husband of thirty years,... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)

(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Growing up in Bristol, England, I went to a very strict private boys’ school. But when I was 10 years old, my father took me on a trip to Los Angeles. Even though I was a child, I intuitively understood the appeal of Hollywood at the time,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Oct 1998
News

Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

At its 45th Reunion, the MBA Class of 1949 made a generous gift to the School for the purpose of creating a Dean's discretionary fund. Recently, Dean Kim B. Clark announced the name and intention of the fund, established in honor of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

have been tempted, on more than one occasion, to simply move from one pressing task to the next. Working on multiple, disparate CHAI projects in parallel has taught me to be intentional about advancing efforts that are important in the... View Details

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