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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to explore potential investment opportunities, scheduled a stopover in Fiji.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
thinking and the options that are in front of me. When I deal with employees, it helps me to seek out who's just saying that they're ready versus who's actually ready, how to really make sure that when people say, View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the combination of a desire to hold out for the best. And it's also this belief that option value is really sort of valuable in and of itself. That combination not only hurts you because you become indecisive and you become trapped in... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
secretary has continued to be a blessing, as I’ve been in the middle of communications between members of our class and HBS for the past 40 years.” Freeman returned to the company after HBS, but after five years decided to put the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Matsubara clinic also has 18 beds for in-patient services, an option that Sato-san has exercised for one week each month since July, mainly to ease the burden of his care on his wife. Dr. Umeda and the nurse eventually set a date for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
issue? For the first six months, I got a lot of questions about my age; after that, I didn’t really get them anymore. Maybe that’s because I had aged so much! Of all the innovations you have introduced, which have been most embraced? I’ve View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Endline’s candy dreams. Previous Next Safe water for millions Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) Founder, S’well Bottle “My dream with S’well is to allow those without options to be provided clean drinking water, while at the same time encourage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Singh’s Job Search.” While the case disguised his name, it otherwise stuck to the biographical facts. According to its author, former HBS faculty member Monica Higgins, the aim of the case is “to ask what is risky, and when should one embrace one’s passions” versus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
the ship apart and putting it back together again. It should be getting under way again in the spring, probably without me. I think I’ll be transferring to a shore station next. (JH, ed.) A former ambassador to the Netherlands and a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
their careers in nonprofits. We all have to work harder to eliminate these barriers. The nonprofit sector presents an outstanding opportunity for talented managers and consultants to put their skills to work for a wide range of worthy... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
hope. So last December, speaking in a crowded, harshly lit room typical of government offices the world over, Cognetti put herself forward as one of 10 candidates to vie for a seat on the Scranton School Board. As part of her personal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
marketing for the Giants. “My job was to put warm butts into cold seats,” notes Baer, who says he learned a lot about all aspects of the business during the three years he spent promoting fan interest and attendance at the notoriously... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
whose numbers you use, it doesn't really matter, but the probability that you'll be successful is somewhere between 10% and 30%. And why is that? If it truly is a crapshoot, then it means that you just have to throw the dice a lot in order to, you know. But then the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
minutes a day in 2018, she says. Much of that is free content, from cat videos on YouTube to whatever the kids are doing on Snapchat. And while high-value, long-form streaming options are flooding the market, the upper-right quadrant in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
from mistakes we learned a long time ago not to make. Why would we now repeat the mistake of banking on a nuclear option that simply makes no economic sense? Michael Hogan (MBA ’88) Sunapee, NH Priorities Trump Prescriptions Your December... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
they were thinking about and gave me the option of what I wanted to work on,” Westphal explained. “The project I chose enabled me to spend 90 percent of my time working with Diego on financial analysis and modeling. I also helped assemble... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
with these questions in a virtual case-method style discussion on October 22. The 160 attendees had the option to be observers only, or participate in the live video class and be prepared to be called upon to engage in the conversation.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley