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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Mexican for-profit social enterprise that makes eye care, including much-needed cataract surgery, accessible to thousands of people annually. Blindness is the second leading cause of disability in Mexico, with more than 2 million people... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
Washington. He was scrolling TikTok one day when he happened on an ad for the Bear Hug Cattle Company. Once he arrived, he was paired with Gray, a big, powerful horse who’s blind in one eye. “If you would’ve told me two months ago that me... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams “This memoir is a journey into a life like no other. Born blind in Tam Ky, Vietnam, the author was dressed in the soiled clothes of her siblings when... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
are not opposed to international expansion if that’s where the wealth is,” Blank said, “but this deal gives us concerns and we may be blinded by the good price.” “I think you’ve made a really clear case,” said Dewey. With the business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Kepha Partners Blinded by the Dot-Com Bust I looked at Data Domain (Series B) in 2003 and at Splunk (Series A) in 2004. At the time, we had just come through the dot-com boom and bust, and my firm and I were sitting on a lot of challenged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
there so that we could replenish our water supply. As we got to the watering hole-- looking forward to the cold, fresh water-- we found a dry hole. And somehow, the inside struck me-- how dependent we are, as humans, on this planet we live on. It was sort of a View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
began on a blind date at the Army–Navy game in 1967, endured the long deployments of his early career and yielded two sons, both of whom chose to follow in their father’s footsteps and attend the United States Naval Academy. “Deborah and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
there, so it blinds you to the reality of people’s talents and potential contributions. Why does an organization benefit from having a mix of women and men in leadership roles? I want to stay away from the studies that analyze... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
To reach, and return from, Iraq requires several mid-air refuelings. We use classic strike tactics to blind the enemy. Loaded with six thousand pounds of bombs, we take out their radar, communications, command headquarters, and missile... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a book and presented a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 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 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
your talents and deficiencies, then seek a place where you can do your best work. Being truly original takes lots of time—there will be many blind paths and mistakes. Day-to-day responsibilities both at work and at home can be... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way. We had great traction and a lot of venture capital firms... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Education for Judgment, edited with David Garvin and Ann Sweet, was published in 1992. Until the closing months of his life in 1999, he kept an office in Cumnock Hall, and more than one current HBS faculty member still recalls that if the View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
as the protagonist? What were you valuing at the time? Where were your blind spots? And really being clinical about it helps process these past experiences, and helps you learn from them. Unfortunately, sometimes people don't do that at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes be skirted, frauds sometimes perpetrated, society’s resources misallocated, and the environment sometimes damaged. Managements are sometimes tolerated or even embraced who should not be—managements preoccupied with self-interest, managements View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
days of trekking through the rains, they reached the blinding sunshine of Sangay’s snow line. It took three attempts to cut a path into the frozen slope to climb the remaining 2,500 feet, but on August 4, 1929, Moore and his father stared... View Details