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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
This past November, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association held its 14th annual conference at the Charles Hotel in Boston, with more than 300 alumni coming to connect and hear from industry leaders. We asked HBSHAA president Tom Robinson (MBA 1989), managing partner of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
were now ill-prepared for a very different demographic reality. Although I was no longer the object of discrimination, I couldn't shake off the knowledge of what it's like to be harassed and terrorized because you are different. Indeed, my childhood View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
experience at Harvard, to address a variety of child-rearing challenges. Instead of control and discipline, this approach aims to help children to think for themselves, own their behavior and choices, and develop confidence from a young... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
who volunteers to teach dance in the New York City public schools. “I want to make movies that are entertaining and commercially successful but also have the potential to change someone’s outlook on life and make a difference in a good... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
way to realize that at the end of the day, planning a life and a career just won't work. It's better to make the best of the current opportunities, and see where that takes you. I guess thinking about life... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
his outlook on life and his career. “When we look at career opportunities,” he explains, “we always ask, do I have a chance to succeed? But I think it’s equally important to ask, do I have the opportunity to fail? If you have the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
guests a unique experience and relaxing respite from the fast-forward pace of modern life. Turtle Island: A Personalized Paradise Have you had it with impossible deadlines, frustrating flights, and late-night staff meetings? Then picture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Human Performance Lab will incorporate new insights into wearable digital sensors. At the Female Athlete Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, this approach has already led researchers to recommend reassessing guidelines for women who View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
talk about life and spiritual principles while engaging with each other as a team—building unity, being transparent, and applying scripture to everyday life. What I offer is a source of peace and recognition that we don’t have all the... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
it’s psychological. Life feels like it just keeps moving faster! We are not the first generation to experience such quickening, but it’s never affected so many people before. I think that overall we are not... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
“Everyone was telling me that loss of life was an inevitable part of mining,” recalls Carroll. “I knew we could do better.” It took several days to get the 28,000 workers out of the mine and almost two months to implement new safety... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation for a View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
deference to authority." "Failure here is treated as a learning experience whereas in other countries it can bring shame on one's family or loss of one's job," she said. "So people elsewhere tend to trust or fear their government or their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
than mere life phase. Take how they were raised. This is a generation that’s grown up as the center of attention, thrust into the nucleus of the family, with parents orbiting around them. They have been told they can be anything they want... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
was crazy,” Lerner says, noting that a successful onboarding experience could translate to long-term results. “This is the time to put your best foot forward, but we were using primitive tools that didn’t allow any of that and caused our... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
you don’t get to do very much.” Number of work trips Down Under: 62 and counting. “When you think about it—and it’s probably best not to—I’ve spent about four months of my life on a plane to Australia.” That nickname: “I don’t think I’m a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna