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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
other people again, which I had really missed while writing novels. What’s a typical day like for you? This morning I woke up at 5:45 and got my kids dressed, fed, and ready for school. I drove the carpool for two of them, and I got to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
planet, she was touring as a supporting act for New Kids on the Block—a boy band beyond their glory years. Part of what explains her meteoric rise is her talent. But it's not sufficient to just have talent. Her manager did an excellent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Wyoming, and then traveling to Alaska to work his way up through the hierarchy. The schedule — a 12-hour shift for 28 straight days — quickly weeded out wimps. “When I started, my name was rabbit choker,” he says. “They told me, ‘You kids... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
come together for sustained, intensive discussion of the problems we're passionate about," said Robin Ely, following the meeting. "I felt like a kid in a candy store: no matter where I turned, I saw brilliant, thoughtful people... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
avoid listing the very best schools as their first choice. After all, only kids with priority at that school were likely to get into that school anyway. But not everyone was savvy. Some 19 percent of applicants did list over-demanded... View Details
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
generation of un-inspiring queer awakenings. I hope my kids don’t even think to ask me how I came out, because they just don’t care. Because it’s boring. And that’s how it should be. View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
love the leadership chapter. The most fascinating subject of all storytelling is individuals. It has been a subject of my research over the last 10 years, so to work on this section was like being a kid in a candy store. Oprah Winfrey,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
veteran technology entrepreneur than a kid in a candy store. A lifelong techie, Levy learned to read by deciphering The Boys’ First Book of Radio and Electronics, a 1954 classic that gave step-by-step instructions for building a radio... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
that taught kids how to be entrepreneurs. A would-be bakery owner, for instance, could work through the necessary steps of calculating costs and doing market research on the way to selling chocolate-covered pretzels for a profit.... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Blumkin also developed special expertise and a solid reputation in experience marketing. That, and the networking skills she had also learned at HBS, ultimately earned her a position on the roster of Super Bowl XLVIII. "My husband and I had decided that one of us had... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
talk to that person. Because you can't say to somebody, well, wait a minute, though—don't you think he's kind of racist? I mean, you you have to say what's going on? How do you think there's a way to do this kind of research? So we got this View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
aren't laughing, and we plunge into those opportunities, into that struggle, and into that work. Let me ask you, what is the most meaningful moments of your lives? Like tell me what has been meaningful to you. And if you had to distill this down for your View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the Discovery Room, where youngsters can touch a snake skin, model a Japanese kimono, or pet a ten-foot-tall stuffed polar bear. "This museum can be a powerful tool to keep kids interested in science," NMNH director Bob Fri observes.... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
great idea today, companies would say, “Are you kidding me?” But our forebears figured out how to make that happen, and now we can go to almost any company in the world and work with them. The same opportunity exists around data sharing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
without interactive curricula, the well-meaning movement may backfire. “Our fear is that if the schools teach entrepreneurship just as another typical subject, the kids rote learn to get high marks in the examination and that will do very... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
the '40s. And he was the youngest of four kids trying this. And his father told him, don't focus on how far San Jose is. Focus on the next hill. You just want to make it to that next hill. Your path is clear. All you want to focus is in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very... View Details