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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
coach but at a fraction of the price. We saw accent coaching as this really amazing, very specific service that helped people speak more confidently and get the career outcomes that they wanted if they were... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
would go on to spend his career making those trips an attainable reality for millions of Americans, riding a wave of deregulation in the airline industry as both an advisor and an executive. He ultimately became CEO of Continental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
others, I found that the founders with the most enviable outcomes had usually followed basic principles of entrepreneurship. Most encouraging, I discovered, is that those principles can be learned. Howard Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Baker... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Fieldhouse to develop a workable concept for a launch of the program. Fieldhouse connected with Specialisterne to help build Dandelion, and formed an external pro bono advisory board that included fellow HBS alumnus Kerry Clarke (AMP 167, 2004), to assist in defining... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for the right job. Yet regardless of the reason for a job change -- the View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
logically and ‘toned down’ my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I realized that he did not support my further... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
standard, even when an alternative standard would be more beneficial to the organization, not to mention to women employees with an interest in career advancement. Understanding the process that brought about such a significant change in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
their careers unless they work for an all-remote company. But also I’ve studied how productivity changes, which is the third leg. I found that in the US Patent Office, causally, not correlationally, they saw a 4.4 percent increase in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Katy Milkman explains why. In a career devoted to uncovering what helps people to change, she has discovered a crucial thing many of us get wrong: strategy. Change, Milkman’s learned, comes most readily when you understand what’s standing... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
the mountains, and being in snow, and eventually climbing glaciers was something that was just sort of a natural outcome for me. White: So you were climbing for years before you turned your hobby into a job. Tell me about your View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Egypt. "It felt like the opportunities for career growth were more available in New York," Enan recalls. "And the other trade-off was around quality of life. I loved going to the theater with friends, taking improv and writing classes.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
great career to be an entrepreneur. It's something you do out of necessity if you haven't gotten a job in the other sectors. And that needs to change as a way to continue attracting the best talent, the best entrepreneurs that want to do... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
digital divide brought to light by the rapid transformation of the classroom experience from in-person to remote learning. ASHISH DHAWAN (MBA 1997) Founder and chairperson of Central Square Foundation, a nonprofit working to transform India’s education system by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
had to memorize everything, and I thought, ‘Could I get a computer to do all this stuff so I don’t have to?’ ” That notion had furthered his interest in artificial intelligence, which had led to his career at IBM, and now, with Watson’s... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended... View Details