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- 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
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
was a moving experience. I had one woman talk to me who was blind in one eye, someone with a profound learning disability, another with a pain issue," she says. "They all said, 'I didn't think anyone would understand.'" But Langer has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Then it got worse: He fell for an audacious Ponzi scheme that swallowed up much of his fortune. A mild-mannered man who began his career as an accountant, Von Allmen was an unlikely victim, but as he told me a couple of years later, "I was View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for its clients). “We started with... 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
gender for a man, or education for a college graduate. This part of our identity may bring blind spots, but it is the best tool for influencing change. She introduces the psychological reasons that make it hard for us to see the bias in... 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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