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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Alumni Board. She was previously the founding director at the Common Room. Choosing my favorite book feels a bit like choosing my favorite kid, but I’d say Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard. It View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
online message boards were set up almost immediately to enable concerned alumni to check on the status of classmates, colleagues, and friends. “I see my family, my neighborhood, my classmates, my countrymen, and even the entire free world... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
join York Street, a winner in the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition.) Years earlier, Embuldeniya and Mawilmada bonded at HBS over their Sri Lankan roots, a tie further strengthened by the December 2004 tsunami that struck the country... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series of occasional opinion pieces by HBS alumni who are professional writers, Time magazine’s national... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
try, how can you hope to succeed? Provide closure. This idea is ripped straight from McGrath’s excellent 2011 Harvard Business Review article “Failing by Design”: “Have a symbolic event—a wake, a play, a memorial—to give people closure.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
that yes, we disagree, but we have bought into the common enterprise of trying to build a free and prosperous society. Has business been supportive of government and the democratic system in the United States? How has the pandemic changed things? See more from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
report things,” she says. RELATED Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Snow removal, potholes, trash pick-up, and graffiti removal; it doesn’t bring the hipster-cred of a high-tech start-up or the glamour of a swanky Wall... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
sociocultural anthropology at UNC, Chapel Hill, and founded wdydwyd? — an online meme through which 2 million people have answered the question, Why do you do what you do? Some alumni have added new reflections on their original... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
acquisition entrepreneurship—which involves acquiring a small business and running it as CEO. It’s an incredibly enjoyable listen, filled with vibrant, human conversations about the challenges and opportunities of this path that so many HBS View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Alumni Bulletin. Colleagues also benefited from Uyterhoeven’s well-honed teaching skills, especially the creative teaching plans he devised. “Hugo was a fantastic teacher,” recalled HBS senior lecturer Ashish Nanda. “He used to tell me to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
found that in joint evaluations, people are much more deliberative in their thinking. If you give people a choice between two or more individuals, then they tend to use the performance-based evidence available to them and hire the most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
in the careers of our alumni and grows to nearly universal participation later," Austin says. Why? "The desire to give something back and make a difference are the primary motivators," he says. "People also... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
Kiddles founder and CEO Andrea Kimmel (MBA 2003) presents this case study query to HBS alumni and faculty: “The team has an aggressive growth timeline, but financing that growth is a challenge. (Center one, a ground-up build, cost a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
competition. Some major players—like Apple, Best Buy, Walmart, and phone carriers—have begun to encourage customers to trade-in their old devices when upgrading. The Question: Gazelle's president, CEO, and cofounder Israel Ganot (MBA 2000), offered this "case study"... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
giving them the resources and empowerment to help tackle these and other challenges. Our veterans are now leading the way on cleaning up neighborhoods, beautifying schools, restoring trails in parks, and building urban farms, and in doing... View Details