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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is getting their work done and achieving good... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
it? Tech didn’t always have a gender diversity problem, at least not by the numbers. In the early days of the industry, when computers were the size of rooms, not wristwatches, women had a significant presence in the field of computer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Dean Nitin Nohria. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big dreams—in effect, spurring our intellectual ambition—he set the School... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
the second day of the workshop, Popik met Steve Mott, a nuclear engineer who works at the Palo Verde Generating Station, in Arizona, the largest nuclear power complex in the United States. Mott told Popik about a particularly terrifying... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
two days a week from her country home and eventually left New York for good. Initially worried that she’d feel isolated in the country, Reade laughs and confides: “I met more people here my first week than in my nine years in New York.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx number. “The only reason we don’t... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
out an application in minutes, and get an answer the same day and money in their bank account the next day, they flocked to the new lenders. Some issues arose quickly, though, such as high prices and bad actors charging hidden fees. The... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict that Raleigh-Durham would one... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
you don't really care that much. But then when you see that people might react to you differently, it absolutely starts affecting you on a subconscious level. And I honestly think that language barriers are a huge reason why people from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Connie Baher (MBA 1980) Independently Published Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. If... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
ours was a unique time at the School, but it wasn't as though we were burning down buildings and joining the SDS - we worked very hard," continues O'Donnell, who has vivid memories of his first day at HBS. "We were greeted by the Dean in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Pediatrics (forthcoming) Abstract Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
engaging in aggressive discounting, the price of butterfat had skyrocketed, and the CEO was coping with a brain tumor. Dreyer's senior executives decided that they needed to restructure the company financially. The day after they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
be taken into consideration when deciding on the length of the school day and the frequency and duration of breaks throughout the day. Second, school accountability systems should control for the influence of external factors on test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
paid for the days they had worked, the district was completely out of money and had to lay everyone off. As people started to return to the city, the schools needed to be reopened. Given the condition of the district, in November 2005 the... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
report all of their absences in advance of class into the Student Absence Notification Tool. It is important to note that Immersive Field Course class days are not eligible for excused recruiting absences, and all recruiting absences on... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
for leading people.” Such praise was inspirational for Beck who raised her sights and decided to pursue a joint degree program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and HBS. Arriving at HBS in the mid-90s, Beck had the serendipity to be thrust into the early... View Details