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- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Everyone remembers their first real job—in part, because it’s everyone’s first experience with a new and foreign world of work. But it’s also because those first jobs can... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Twenty-five years ago, our yearbook opened with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith - esteemed professor from across the river - who said patronizingly of HBS, in that wonderfully dry way of his, "It's a good school. We should be grateful... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
everything. The lively open kitchen and Puck’s unpretentious brick-oven pizzas and farm-to-table fare felt fresh to California’s fine diners, who also fell in love with the charming chef. But even as his reputation grew, Puck continued to explore the “what ifs.” In... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often without transferable skills or training. The cycle wasn’t good for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
that point and have tried to use that lesson throughout my life. See Every Side Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) THE GREATEST LESSON I took from the case study method at HBS is that opposing viewpoints are all based on different experiences; understanding those View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
start, says Harris in his new book, Transformative Entrepreneurs (Palgrave Macmillan). But so is something much less exotic: a passion for execution. Harris focuses on stories of business geniuses who had that most rare ability to deliver on a great or even very View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
experiences that often suggest interesting lines of research for our faculty to pursue. It’s a virtuous circle: Academics study business practice and practitioners, their research “product” then influences practice, which in turn leads to... View Details
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Jon Schechter
anywhere else.” Building leadership through relationships Asked to reflect on what leadership means at HBS, Jon says, “We place it in a very human context. There is no one procedure or prescriptive answer for any problem; resolutions depend on human relationships.... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
information can be found on this Ways to Help HBS Talent page. CPD has also developed a new website in response to an expected rise in alumni demand for coaching and career resources, as well as the desire to draw on alumni experience. “No one has experienced anything... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
It hardly seems possible, but 25 years have passed since our class left Soldiers Field. At the time we were a bit dazed by the political and social upheaval around us, yet confident that our hard-earned MBA credential would stand us in View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Making A Beautiful Planet was the most important thing I did as an astronaut, because so many people have seen it as an IMAX movie and will see it in the future. I came away from that experience thinking, you know, all is not lost. Earth... View Details
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Andrew Pratt
the former president of Mexico! What might people find surprising about you? I make amazing Louisiana gumbo. Why is it amazing? [Laughs.] That’s a secret. Okay, a big part of it is the fried chicken – like so many good things in life! View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
the other hand I was 25 or 26 years old and negotiating $100,000 contracts, big money in those days. I had a really good mentor who let me do these things but would also make sure I was learning from the View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
them? Grana: I'm actually fairly old school. By and large, my tracking is in Excel. Part of it is because it's a wide variety of things that I track and Excel is just the most versatile tool out there. But also I actually experimented... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
hardly any learning curve,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It was a good fit.” The investment business changed during his tenure at Lehman, and in 1976 he left and moved to Boston to launch Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
though? 20% of the time I'm not happy. And 20% of the time she's not. When you do the math on those, that's 4% where we're both unhappy. Fireworks, fighting, a disagreement, an argument, things I'm not proud of saying where she's not proud of saying. It's 4% of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
always try to bring my financial common sense to bear on it. The art of theoretical model-building is to make good abstractions that also capture the essence of the world that you're trying to explain. That's the fun. That's the... View Details