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- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
schools; the eldest was working on Wall Street. Then, around midnight one Saturday in March, his youngest child, age 16, returned home in tears. He’d been about to take his own life, he told his parents, driven by an alcohol addiction he... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joseph Ferrer
When he leapt, I leapt. Where he flew, I flew beside him. Big Brother taught me to stay hungry and to stay focused, to endure in the face of adversity, and to love unconditionally. Big Brother was strong, but he was not superhuman. In his last years, I watched... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
teaching medical professionals how to help patients avoid opioid addiction by using hypnotic strategies to reduce the need for pain medications. “My work with Comfort Talk, which is the name of my company, in using hypnotic techniques for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
of jeans for her burial, I came across a brown, leather-bound journal. I opened it and found passages from the weeks before she died. When I showed the journal to a neighbor (who happened to be an addiction psychiatrist) he said, “You... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- Portrait Project
Mark Cicirelli
addicted to the electric excitement of building new things, taking chances, and trying to influence the future. Fuses exist to prevent surges of energy. After HBS I hope to blow a bunch more fuses. View Details
- 09 Jan 2013
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers
Addiction to Service Heroes In their new book, Uncommon Service, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss show it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. The key? Don't try to be good at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
you were to where you are.” Henderson brings his story to audiences from LA to South Africa as managing director of the leadership development firm Henderson, Harper & Associates. Its power lies in its truth: From dabbling in marijuana at age 12 to a full-blown heroin... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in Economics & International Studies... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
research not only confirms change is possible, but outlines ways to make new behaviors stick. Here is research out of Harvard Business School that explores the latest thinking in behavioral research and how big changes can start with something as simple as a nudge. How... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
tried-and-true pedagogy and gamification. “We want you to get addicted to the course the way you get addicted to a game,” he says. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for customers? Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution? Millions of people have been harmed by cigarettes, defective merchandise, pollution, addiction and other business by-products. now,... View Details
- Profile
Ann Lucena
Organization where she is consulting with the American Society of Addiction Medicine. "I'm helping them create a business plan for software they'd like to launch. It's an exploratory project: Is it feasible? If so, what's the best... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
things we take for granted in the West” Lack of jobs is a likely cause of rising addiction rates, with their myriad attendant pathologies and costs. Whereas Afghanistan once just grew poppies, its inhabitants are now increasingly View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
countries. Høegh explains that he always tries to include a philanthropic side to his artistic endeavors: "Among those employed in my productions in Norway were rehabilitated drug addicts from a special jobs program. Having this kind of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here are some examples of how they... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
the amount of nicotine they inhale, gradually weaning themselves off their addiction if they choose. “The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear” "The value proposition of e-cigarettes is clear," says John A. Quelch, Charles... View Details
- Portrait Project
Martin Eston
Addiction doesn’t fit neatly into the first chapters of a success story, yet it plagued much of my early adult life. It’s the kind of thing that gets edited out of an otherwise promising narrative. It’s not what our biggest fans want to... View Details