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13 Apr 2016
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How To Work With Your Significant Other And Succeed

02 Dec 2019
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Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

still a student for a couple of reasons. One was because of the great people I met there and the friends I made. The other was because of opportunities, such as the section experience View Details

13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

'ship captains' to help over 200 of our classmates make it onto the Nantucket Ferry and arrive on the island. We knew each other from that point on, but we didn't become close friends until a year later,... View Details

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

management. It brings these themes together in case discussions and exercises that focus on the personal decisions managers face in high-performance, high-stakes, and career-defining moments. Students will... View Details

November 2018
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Governance Transition at Anadolu Group

By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin

Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next... View Details

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01 Feb 1998
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C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in the early 1980s. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
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AltSchool: School Reimagined

By: John J-H Kim, Kyla Wilkes and Christine S. An

Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's frustration with the education options available for his young daughter. During his search, Ventilla comes to the... View Details

Keywords: Education Technology; School Models; Product Development; Entrepreneurship; Talent Development And Retention; Social Impact Investment; Information Technology; Business Model; Education; Business Startups; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States

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Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

21 Nov 2019
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Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

there were workers who would have to spend six months to a year. Growing up, I had met so many people who worked hard at risky places in the steel factory with the primary objective of getting themselves and their View Details

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51383 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2021
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Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

well as the breadth and depth of talent at HBS. Joshua Mbanusi’s Road to HBS Joshua Mbanusi grew up the youngest of five children raised by a single mother and his earliest days shaped his career decisions... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

products and brand. Standardized, branded condiments, the entrepreneur realized, would be affordable to large numbers of urban Americans. These goods would also be appealing. As cities expanded, fewer households had access to their own... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

08 Nov 2016
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Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

that inspires me. When I meet up with friends from HBS, I always feel a new level of motivation and inspiration that gets my creative juices flowing. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Where will the next... View Details

Keywords: Technology

03 Dec 2008
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Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

loan. Further, they suggest in a recent Financial Times op-ed that "government and the market should try to deal with temptation" (our limited self-control) by, for example, requiring that families... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 May 2013
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“A place to grow personally and professionally.” - Yolanda Anton

friend of her friends, always willing to have a good chat? All these people are me, and without their mix one cannot understand my presence at HBS. I started my career as an engineer in technical positions,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

20 Dec 2017
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Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS

dog sitters! Do you have any favorite spots on campus or around Boston that are dog-friendly?Piper loves Boston, and especially enjoyed her walks to HBS. She couldn’t get enough of chasing all the bunnies on campus View Details

01 Sep 2004
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MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement

the proceedings. Photos by Stuart Cahill For the hundreds of MBA students and their families assembled on a hot and steamy Baker Lawn last June, Class Day 2004 was an occasion... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Industry at its best,” Edwin H. Land believed, “is the intersection of science and art.” 1 A scientist View Details

14 Jul 2023
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Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization

For Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), the life of an activist was one she was born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about... View Details

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