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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
to be the logistics/delivery company delivering furniture/food instead of the other way around. Have you considered the option to have brick-and-mortar stores with online being an add-on? You will need a warehouse, but you won’t have to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
described her as a middle-aged woman. Middle age is a much different proposition these days. And far more mathematically accurate — there are probably as many years left as lived. Looking back, thanks to social change, the baby boomer impact, expanded View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
learning." Adds Kosnik, "Sharing the learning process with these students reminds me there's no work I'd rather do more." Real Property Asset Management William Poorvu, the School's MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in real terms than it has been for much of the last several decades—and it’s hard to argue that a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
brother and cousin, that forms the Office of the President at Loews' Manhattan headquarters. Among his primary responsibilities are watching over several major real estate investments and working closely with the CEOs of several... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
2014, York Street Partners will launch its asset management platform, and with it private equity, real estate, and fixed income funds—none of which currently exist in the Sri Lankan market. Future plans include exploring a venture capital... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
Skilling’s conduct will reopen discussions of what was the real offense committed by Skilling. The answer to this question is important because many of Skilling’s allegedly fraudulent activities fall into the “shadowed space” or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
people in all kinds of jobs, from the roustabouts who were doing the dirtiest work to the engineers and control room operators. Many were veterans of offshore work environments where proving their worth meant putting themselves in real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
endeavors. After building his fortune in the virtual world, Steven D. Murch (MBA '91) has taken up a hammer to build a lasting legacy in the real world. “My dream is to create a foundation that helps people,” says Murch, a Microsoft... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
applying for jobs and any type of stressor, and the place you go for comfort for me was always the eating disorder. I continued to feel like I had breakthroughs because I'd hit some sort of milestone, but the real recovery came when I... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
about a dog, and they even generalize to an amazing extent. If they see a cartoon image of a purple dog, even though they’ve never seen a real purple dog in their life, they still know that it’s a dog. Whereas a Google engine may fail on... 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 for what’s gone wrong in... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the HBS community is that HBS offers incredible optionality and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
women in the country, so we're very excited about it. “I've never been an entrepreneur. And it wasn't until after HBS that I really seriously looked at entrepreneurship as being a real option for myself. So... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
as hard or get as much out of HBS as I might have. Nonetheless, HBS was a good experience for me: The community was solid, the teaching superb, and the cases challenging. I still use class discussion whenever I can in teaching. Despite many rewarding jobs over the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
thought about having an elevator pitch. What's your elevator pitch? Is it: I have a cute widget. Or I have a cute app I want to share with you. Or we’re going to transform the way customers buy and sell, we think we can solve a real... View Details