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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
finance and accounting, but they are happy I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, that I have the luxury of choice. I can’t thank the School enough.” Wu has participated in HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship program and this past... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
You showered us in so much kindness and through your own mothers' recipes (okay and Grubhub) kept us fed during finals and beyond. We are so grateful. Rachel Drapper (MBA 2022) and James Dinsdale James is my best friend, was my ultimate back-up for a bit too long, and... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
opportunities and verify that two similar equilibria emerge. Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox? Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Periodical:Journal of Development Economics 16, no. 3 (fall 2007)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
hearing that smile in her voice whenever we spoke on the phone. In a materialistic world, that smile represents an immense love that requires nothing in return. The smile that just says I am always happy for you. And, now, as I watch my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details
Keywords: Management
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
required by FIELD and other courses. You have indeed mastered the art and science of business administration and prepared yourself for leadership. Let’s be grateful for the friendships and sense of partnership that have characterized this class since it first arrived.... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Gilboa 09 Nov 2017 A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend breakfasts and happy hours with nearly everyone... Meet the Initiatives Bethany vanderWalde 02 Nov 2017 Social Enterprise, founded in 1993, was the first established... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
Edmondson and Joe Fuller picked it up after Garvin’s death in 2017 and retitled it Becoming a General Manager—and then retitled it again, Making Difficult Decisions, in 2023. Zuzul joined this year, and it’s been a happy reunion with... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
likely would have been eligible for another couple of years of LRAP funding, but we were really grateful for how much the LRAP funding had already helped us and were happy to knock out our debt and let other future students enjoy the... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
community with others in my section. By design, the emphasis on the section experience forced me outside of my comfort zone. And I’m so happy it did. Being the Student Association Co-President has been my most rewarding experience... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
involved in social enterprise at HBS, and it has strongly influenced how I’m looking at different post-MBA options. From choices about work-life tradeoffs, to reading habits, to views on what makes a healthy lifestyle, the values of our colleagues can have a lasting... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
immigration stories? We just asked. Most people were very willing to tell their family stories. Of course, not all of them are happy stories. It was more difficult to get the stories of African Americans, because many of their relatives... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
the most popular television shows ever. He then joined Warner Bros., greenlighting film projects that included three Batman films, Happy Feet, and one of Hollywood’s biggest sensations, the Harry Potter series. “If one just puts his head... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
financial reasons,” says Ortiz-Monasterio. “To put it in Hollywood terms, one could say this is a happy ending. But it is not an ending. We’re just through our first 25 years!” View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
Student Union. Social Events Of course, a large part of the HBS experience is meeting new people and making lifelong friends. Whether it’s small group dinners or happy hours, the WSA regularly hosts events to bring our community of women... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
a personal happiness standpoint, I wanted to know the ten people I’d be interacting and spending the most time with, the person I worked for and the people I’d be working with.” “I zeroed in on the culture of teams, looking for a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Tropical's Nick Castaldo: “When you see employees who take pride in what they're doing and long lines of happy customers, it's terrifically satisfying.” Nick Castaldo is CEO of Miami-based Pollo Tropical, a chain of 54 quick-service... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
what could become a wildly successful company, but I also want to make sure my kids have health insurance. If I have this outside option, if I have access to public health insurance, then I'm more likely to join. The founders of the next Google or Facebook are View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
to present it in the most constructive context. "People aren't happy when the unexpected happens, but they are even unhappier if they find out you tried to hide it," says Bruce Patton, a partner at Boston-based Vantage Partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman