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- Portrait Project
Kelley Thorne
When I slid my first brush across a blank canvas, it sparked my passion for painting. I spent hot summer days in my mom’s art studio working away as Allen Levi’s voice drowned out the chirping cicadas. Each time I perfected a flower... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
future relationships. B2B firms that make special accommodations for customers in need today could reap the benefits of long-term loyalty. As an example, wedding website theknot.com is providing financial assistance to vendors such as caterers and View Details
- Portrait Project
Alice Yen
I never needed a playground. Growing up in North Carolina, the branches and flower buds of my dad’s garden were the monkey bars of my jungle gym. I played hide-and-seek, peeking between the Asian apple pear, persimmon, and fig trees. It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
seemingly rare flower with a very real role in getting new ventures off the ground, reinventing existing businesses, and creating productive work environments. In an Unjust World, A Champion for Economic Justice He’s got a superhero’s... View Details
- Web
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems - Course Catalog
contributing to a flowering of individual freedom and possibility that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors. Today, however, increasing global crises are posing the greatest threat this economic system has faced. Reimagining... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
Venture capitalist Peter C. Wendell (MBA '76) and his partners receive some 2,500 requests to back new entrepreneurial startups each year. In selecting the handful of seedlings he believes have the potential to flower into world-changing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
more championship rings in him.” Next passport stamp: Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom known for its Gross National Happiness index. Recommended reading: Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur. “She’s a young Sikh woman who... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
send you flowers for. When I was hospitalized, my mother gave me a copy of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, a memoir of living with bipolar illness. Years later, that book was my inspiration for starting the Stability Network. I... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
sense of being in a landscaped pedestrian precinct." Most traffic disappeared from campus in the 1980s, and "scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated" now dominate the landscape.... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
kinds), and 350 flowering trees (24 kinds). John Moody of the Operations Department tells me that they’ll happily accept more additions, named or unnamed, to the greening of the HBS campus. View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
Yahoo! Inc. sent her flowers with a card saying that they, too, were leaving at 5:30. “I didn’t realize how much noise there would be,” Sandberg says. “A friend told me, ‘You couldn’t have gotten more publicity if you murdered someone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
we can think of, on a floppy disk or CD. And by tapping on your computer keyboard and rearranging the order and number of these ones and zeroes, you can send an e-mail, write an English paper, or transmit a photograph.” Enriquez then holds aloft a Christmas cactus... View Details
- Profile
Brendan Mosher
sufficient to end his military career. Making new plans "That was a very tough time," Brendan says, "a real shock to the next five to ten years I had planned out." As Brendan considered his options, he launched a View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake killed thousands of area residents. "He talked about dozens of families walking from farmer to farmer, asking to find chrysanthemum flowers used for funerals," student Kazumasa Mukae (HBS MBA '14) recalls. "His... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
tall, flowering plants, to small gardens of vegetables and herbs. Green roofs are excellent at reducing and retaining stormwater, reducing the heat island effect, and insulating the buildings. The veggies, herbs, and honey harvested at... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets of seed abroad. Batcha... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
the fact that their maiden names all begin with the letter M, which inspired the company’s name), the women had all been raised on entrepreneurship. Murakami’s mother had started a company in her 40s. Matsu’s parents, immigrants, founded one of the largest View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
"Now we're the Establishment!" « Back A Blooming Business Perhaps you're looking for an arrangement of tropical Hawaiian flowers for your office lobby, a bonsai rosemary plant for your gourmet kitchen, or a bouquet of orchids for your... View Details
- 21 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections
slender sprout that was planted in the midst of the Great Recession has given flower to a strikingly successful, robust program that sets the standard globally for joint degree programs integrating business management and public policy... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details