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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
diverse personalities.” Travel trio: Exercise right off the plane. Find really great coffee in a new café. Bring lavender oil: “If I put some on my pillow, I have a sense of being at home.” Game changer: Launch X, an accelerator program... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
an organized framework to help individuals make intelligent choices. It presents ways to identify the right problem or opportunity, probe one's values, generate and evaluate alternatives, think about tradeoffs, and cope with uncertainties... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
the surface for the right level of tackiness before laying down the gold leaf." After pressing on the paper-thin strips of gold, Pawlick burnished the dome with a soft brush before giving it a final polish. Built in 1927, the Baker... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
that HBS provided the ideal preparation for launching a new company. “You become familiar with all the roles in a startup, from CEO to HR director,” he says. He and his business partners also benefited from HBS faculty advice. “It’s like having a team of top... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
quickly, a job hunter should target two hundred positions. These are not job openings, but two hundred positions you think may be right for you. For example, if there were thirty appropriate sales positions (not openings) at a certain... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
hitting on the right idea for a business. “You’re not going to find it — it’s built over time.” His partner, Eric Boutin (MBA ’07), added that the pair did not have a background in biotech. Shelby Clark (MBA ’10) noted that the Rock... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
on a two-lane road that all of a sudden widened to 28 lanes wide with not any lane separation for several miles, right up to the steps of the new capitol. I'd never seen anything like that before. And the driver whispered to me, in case... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the movements for racial equality and women’s suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women’s voting rights in America reached the tipping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Under Sicilian tradition enforced by her iron-willed father, she was expected to live at home until the right young man came along and proposed marriage. Desperate for independence, at age 26 she broke free of her parents and moved into a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
right to decide that their business exists solely to maximize profits. But let’s stop to examine what that even means. What are those things that cause profits to be maximized? And should we be aiming to maximize them this year, or next... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
classrooms, online through our HBX digital learning platform, in the regions and communities where you live, within your companies, or right in your email inbox. Our thinking is evolving toward a strategy of continuous education and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
because he liked the idea of "getting alumni and students together in an interactive forum." He hopes to see this kind of exercise at HBS enriched and expanded. "As the Internet technology goes further," he suggests, "there could be direct voice-to-voice or even... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
intimidating aura. "On a dreary January day, we drove over the border," he recalls. "The East German countryside, still under communist rule, bristled with barbed wire and watchtowers." But Hughes's initial assessment of the factory's potential was View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?" © The New Yorker Collection 2005 Leo Cullum from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, recently echoed Machiavelli... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
And because the addressable market has gone from that local geography to everyone, the best content, even if it’s in a niche, always rises to the top. HBS: How much money can really be behind this boom? What would a podcasting bubble look like? RF: A lot of people... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
people wouldn’t think can be done” and also know how to do that in an economically scalable way so that it can benefit the entire community. What is the single most important issue for the new mayor to address in Baltimore? The most urgent thing View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
power and shale gas are on the right side of the fight against climate change, and why markets have a better shot at winning the fight than governments do. Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation Clear communication is critical for a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
and provide a privately directed, revenue-neutral stimulus that could eclipse the effects of any potential stimulus that could emerge from Washington today. — Mihir A. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and senior associate dean for Planning and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session moderated by HBS professor emeritus James L. Heskett on the role health-care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the potential in the places we are living... View Details