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- November 2024 (Revised March 2025)
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Tim Ferriss: What Might This Look like If It Were Easy?
By: Reza Satchu and Denise Koller
In April 2024, writer-podcaster Tim Ferriss—celebrated as the “Oprah of audio” for his billion-download show and known for NYT-bestsellers like The 4-Hour Workweek—found himself at a crossroads. Despite generating a multi-million-dollar annual revenue with just three... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Personal Development and Career; Business Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Satchu, Reza, and Denise Koller. "Tim Ferriss: What Might This Look like If It Were Easy?" Harvard Business School Case 825-091, November 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
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2010) , CEO of East Boston Social Centers, is making joy a priority in his community—and what his work can teach every organization How to Judge Your Next Job Michael Horn (MBA 2006) and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein —coauthors of the new book Job Moves: 9 Steps... View Details
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Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni
Careers Leverage LinkedIn Careers Leverage LinkedIn LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool. Whether or not you're looking for a new role, recruiters may be using it to look for you. Having a good profile can... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS
of HBS while keeping my head above the proverbial water. And just like that, everything changed my EC year – the training wheels were off! Suddenly, there were so many choices: what courses to take, what clubs and activities to... View Details
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
Fuller & David Garvin Master four vital managerial processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management. 8 weeks, 4-7 hrs/week Pay by September 25 $1,850 Certificate Organizational Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'?... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his... View Details
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Principal Research Interests
My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details
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About - Race, Gender & Equity
Review. Professor Ely is presently conducting research on organizational culture change aimed at reducing workplace inequality, strategies for women leaders to navigate gender stereotypes, and HBS alumni View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University
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About - Business & Environment
About Inspiring innovation at the intersection of business and the environment. Mission The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business leaders to address climate change and other environmental... View Details
- June 2017
- Article
The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital." History of Political Economy 49, no. 2 (June 2017): 347–381.
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Michael R. Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg is not your typical entrepreneur. His resume is an astounding mixture of business, political and philanthropic achievement in a career that has crisscrossed so many boundaries that it defies categorization. Having built... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
nature of accounting standards proposed between 1973 and 2007. Among other results, we find that length of service on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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General Management - Faculty & Research
capital controls. On the positive side, we build a new dataset using textual analysis, from which we document a set of stylized facts of capital controls along their intensive and extensive margins for 21 emerging markets. We document that capital controls are... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment
permitted. Download to Calendar Keywords: Alumni Program, Climate Change Regional Event; Mar 27 Careers in Climate: Virtual Speed Networking Organizers: Business and Environment Initiative 27 MAR 2025 |... View Details
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Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection
By: Boris Groysberg and Eric Lin
We use proprietary data capturing compensation levels of executives placed by a global search firm to investigate how executives evaluate rewards and risks of human capital investment choices. Our findings suggest that more isolated industries with lower opportunity to... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Eric Lin. "Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2014).
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Biography Biography Career Timeline Biography Michael... View Details