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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Hellman takes a casual, often humorous view of his accomplishments. He’d rather talk about his love for bluegrass music than The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., an organization his firm made headlines with when it invested $240 million in it.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
something went wrong, he'll probably tell ten. Before long, everyone has heard a story about someone's bad experience." Putting Out Fires So what about the bad days? The business of preparing and serving food is a source of some of the most memorable, most View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
breakthrough, rather than a break from professional advancement. As she discovered, “soft” skills are actually pretty hard, but they can be mastered. As kids demonstrate, we all learn best when having fun. In this book, dozens of essential executive leadership lessons... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? Some insiders joke that any time MBAs pile into a field, it’s a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Howard. By asking me the right questions, with humor and humility, he led me to make good decisions in my life. He mentored me without me realizing it.” — Stephanie Noone, HBS Development Officer “If there’s ever a fallen sparrow writhing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
integrate professional and personal goals in making career choices. Christina R. Lane (MBA '82) took listeners on a humorous sojourn, recounting her adventures as an international management consultant to governments, businesses, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
with whom they can network. “There is a critical mass of alumni who serve as judges, speakers, mentors, funders, and partners,” says Stig Leschly (MBA 1997/JD 1998), a former contest participant and two-time judge. Leschly maintains a sense of View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
innovations in auction design. JH: Wilson humorously refers to his Nobel-Prize winning students, who include Milgrom, Al Roth, and Bengt Holmstrom, as “my trifecta.” With that track record, he’s often asked for his secret sauce in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
their mirror position on the other side of the room. This included dress, hairstyle, mannerisms, voice, and style of comment typical of the person in question, and, of course, we traded namecards. Our professor rolled with it quite well, despite the fact that View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
yourself with close friends who understand what you are experiencing. It’s a long grieving process and a sense of humor will get you through the ugly days.” —Paula Smith Dermody (OPM 42, 2012), owner, Grace & Co. “Having had kids early in... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood... View Details