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- 01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
expect the magnitude of displacement that has occurred,” explains Assistant Professor Kristin Fabbe. “When we asked Syrian refugees living in Turkey how long they thought they were going to be gone, most said three-to-six months. Now the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
through charisma or force of character in the way that I thought leaders always did. Professor Joshua Margolis’s class helped me see beyond that. It’s possible to be an effective leader and an introvert. We’ve spent a lot of time changing... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
engineering at Cambridge University, he set his sights on Harvard for postgraduate education. The Singapore government, for its part, thought that was a good move too, but felt that Yeo could best serve his country by earning a Master of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
thought needed additional investment of time and resources which was fundamentally what to do with carbon dioxide. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast DM:... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
way that many brands would never experience. I was an investment banker before I went to HBS, and then I went into marketing. I never thought that a course in production and operations management would have anything to do with my life.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
and were inspired. In the serious, thoughtful faces of the high school students, and the irrepressible spirits of the younger children, we caught a glimpse of Bhutan’s promising future. — JANET SANDERS View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
way to structure an institution that performs those functions?" The spirit of it is to try to devise a way of thinking about institutional change in an organized way in the global financial system. We're still at an early stage in this, but I'm finding it very... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
grateful just to get a job. I believe it is good to have experienced global fluctuations when you are running a business, because it makes you a smarter, more thoughtful executive. Sahlman: In general, I find that competent people can... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
through which . . . [to learn] about South Korea and its people,” says Nix Maasdorp (MBA 2020). “Our customer interviews enabled us to approach our objective from a much deeper and more thoughtful perspective.” The students also had to... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
the thought process to lead well. On 9/11, I was in the Pentagon and the airplane came in directly underneath my spaces. Every ceiling tile came in. Smoke filled the spaces. There were 10 there. We all got out. I went back in to verify... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
members is available both here in the Bulletin and online (with e-mails highlighted for your convenience). Please feel free to contact us with your thoughts or recommendations. Our goal is to support you and the mission of the School, and... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
in 2010 when, at peace and surrounded by her family, she took her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. Curtis, who had a modeling career before attending HBS, worked for many years as an administrator and lecturer at Oregon Health and Sciences University. She... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
society, and it plays a critical role in addressing complex, entrenched challenges like health care, education, and the environment. Our faculty can help here; working together, the ideas they develop have the potential to influence View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
discovered a company that I thought was amazing. Sodexo is a French company, Global French Company. I just fell in love with their mission and their values and their lens of the world, and their role in it as a corporate citizen. So, I... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
market” but also “irascible & quarrelsome & in this way makes enemies.” Then, “his habits have been more expensive than his circumstances were thought to justify, but he is more prudent in this respect than formerly...careful in his... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic expansion.” The pair turned out to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunity often lay in the problems that they and their peers faced in their personal lives. Take Michel, for example. A naval flight officer prior to attending HBS, Michel joined a Navy reserve unit in California after graduation. Watching his fellow reservists... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details