life experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

sure, but they were also sustained by a sense of higher purpose,” writes Baher. “In our modest ways we’re trying to be the heroes of our own daily war. Thanks, John McCain.” Baher, an expert on life transitions, is the author of The Case... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The culmination of an immersive field course, the trip brought the students’ classroom learning to life and offered insight into one of China’s major political and economic development programs. Combining... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

large book on the life and work of the late Stanley Meltzoff, a noted U.S. commercial artist, has nearly 190 color plates showing works ranging from illustrations for the Armed Forces’ Stars and Stripes and his covers for Field & Stream,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home

streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

student statistics. HBS: Part of the Global Village The international students who grappled with this introduction to an essential aspect of life at HBS are part of a long tradition. Business students have traveled to Soldiers Field from... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do

depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976

a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and investment in green technologies.... View Details

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

emotions was, we're so thankful to have this experience and there was a little bit of melancholy about it too, because my father, who had passed away the year prior, would've loved to know that, that had happened. For him, his uncle... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Life at HBS The newly renamed HBS PRIDE Alumni Association (formerly HBS LGBT Alumni Association) recently welcomed an audience of nearly 150 alumni and current HBS students to a multi-generational panel discussion titled “Five Decades of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

Black applicants as well as applicants from other underrepresented minority groups. While admissions are based on merit, financial aid awards are based on demonstrated need, and in recent years, HBS has looked at this need with a new lens to ensure that a student’s... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

climate change, and economic resource nationalism. Readers will learn how risk management is being transformed from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

Participants in both trips came back energized and full of excitement about opportunities in the region. "When in your life will you have the chance to visit the biggest high-tech companies in the Valley?" asked one student upon returning... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

difficulty of life for my father after incarceration.” She adds that the webinar was well-received and many attendees thanked her for sharing her story. “People who have never been involved with the incarcerated see me as brave. The... View Details